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Ship 24 and Booster 7 – now returned to a full-stack stance – are waiting to attempt their historic test flight. While a launch date remains fluid, hopes remain high that the vehicle could rise out of Starbase in the second half of April.

Payloads: Human Research Facility Veggie Profile of Mood States (Veggie POMS): A POMS short form questionnaire was completed using the Data Collection Tool (DCT). The Pick-and-Eat Salad-Crop Productivity, Nutritional Value, and Acceptability to Supplement the ISS Food System (Veggie) investigation is a phased research project that includes Veg-04A, Veg-04B, Veg-05, and HRF Veg including HRF …

SpaceX have confirmed they are preparing for the historic first flight of Starship.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has named Dr. Makenzie Lystrup director of the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, effective immediately. She will make history as the first female center director at Goddard.

The space industry keeps growing, and global consulting groups aren’t ones to be left behind. 

Technology in development today could radically change the future of air and space exploration. Nearly silent electric aircraft could ferry people and packages around cities, a sprawling radio telescope array on the far side of the Moon could reveal new secrets about the universe, and astronauts on long-duration missions could grow their own medici

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:30 a.m. EDT Friday, April 7, to launch NASA’s TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution instrument). TEMPO is the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants hourly in high spatial resolution – down to four square miles – in a region stretching from the Atlantic to the Pa

True Anomaly, formed a year ago to focus on the national security market, announced April 6 it has raised $30 million in pre-seed, seed, and Series A funding.

Loft Orbital has ordered an additional 15 satellite buses from Airbus OneWeb Satellites to meet growing demand for its standardized space platforms.

China has invited Venezuela to join its lunar research station project as the country works to gain partners for the endeavor.

The upcoming launch of a NASA Earth science instrument on a commercial communications satellite illustrates the promise of, but also the problems with, hosted payloads.

The successful launch of Tranche 0 satellites took place 27 months after SDA, an agency under the U.S. Space Force, ordered the satellites, drawing praise from senior officials.

As the smallest branch of the U.S. military with a high demand for technical expertise, the Space Force has embraced unconventional ways to attract and retain people in key career fields.

Payloads: Manufacturing Device (ManD): The crew replaced the feedstock canister, extruder, and build platform in ManD to enable a test object to be printed. Following a failed print attempt, the crew manually fed the feedstock into the extruder to allow another print attempt. The Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF) enables the production of components on the …

"Once we get our certification, we're allowed to fly as frequently as we want."

Dawn Aerospace completed its first series of rocket-powered flights last week of Mk-II Aurora spaceplane.

Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

An updated version of a space safety document endorsed by more than two dozen organizations includes “rules of the road” for avoiding collisions between space objects.

Apple executive Doug Beck has been named as the next director of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the Defense Department announced April 4.

NASA will provide live coverage as three crew members aboard the International Space Station take a short trip inside the Soyuz MS-23 beginning at 4:15 a.m. EDT on Thursday, April 6, to relocate the spacecraft from one parking place to another.

With Virgin Orbit now under bankruptcy protection, departing Chief Operating Officer Tony Gingiss had some choice words for the company’s leadership, as well as a lengthy and detailed apology to its employees.

NASA Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) have been preparing and planning for the Artemis II launch since before the flight crew was announced on April 3. Teams at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida are looking forward to working closely with the four astronauts who will be the first to fly to the Moon in over 50 years.

Small satellite manufacturer Apex will launch its first satellite next year as a demonstration of its capabilities as it prepares for large-scale production.

A thruster issue was behind a temporary outage of Arabsat’s aging Badr-6 broadcast satellite in February, according to an executive for the Saudi Arabia-based operator.

Payloads: BioFabrication Facility (BFF): In order to put the tissue cassette in a good configuration, the crew removed the curing lid and installed the print lid. Using 3D biological printers to produce usable human organs has long been a dream of scientists and doctors around the globe. However, printing the tiny, complex structures found inside …

Branson further cements his position as a "senior" creditor.

Virgin Orbit has filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Launch company Virgin Orbit filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy April 4, having failed to achieve financial orbit after burning through more than $1 billion.

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit Holdings (VORB.O) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday after the satellite launch company failed to secure the long-term funding needed to help it recover from a January rocket failure.

"Artemis II is more than a mission to the Moon and back."

Thuraya is providing Swiss small satellite operator Astrocast a $17.5 million financial lifeline in a deal that marks the Emirati company’s first investment in a low Earth orbit constellation.

Lockheed Martin was selected as the “preferred bidder” for a multibillion-dollar Australian military project to build military communications satellites and supporting infrastructure.

With help from the joint NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have made groundbreaking, first-of-their-kind discoveries on two exoplanets. One team utilized the immense power of Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instruments to observe and characterize clouds and molecules in the atmosphere of an exoplanet located 40 light-years away.

Kleos Space and Spire Global have been awarded contract extensions by the National Reconnaissance Office for commercial radio-frequency (RF) data, the companies announced April 3.

La NASA y la Agencia Espacial Canadiense (CSA, por sus siglas en inglés) anunciaron a los cuatro astronautas que emprenderán un viaje alrededor de la Luna a bordo de Artemis II.

NASA announced April 3 the three Americans and one Canadian who will be on the crew of the Artemis 2 mission, the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit in more than half a century.

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. The agencies revealed the crew members Monday during an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s John

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Monday announced the four astronauts who will fly on the agency’s upcoming mission around the moon, currently scheduled for late 2024.

Meet the Crew of Artemis 2

Payloads: Foams and Emulsions Sampling: An experiment-1 protocol session was performed, which results in the production of an emulsion. In this protocol, the emulsion is formed by mixing an aqueous solution with an oil. The emulsion is observed in the Keyence Research Microscope Testbed (KERMIT) and then “cured” to preserve it for later analysis. Foams …

The Earth is embraced by its oceans and seas.  And so are we.  We depend on them for more than half of the oxygen we breathe. Ocean currents shape the […]

Redwire in a planned demonstration later this year will install ExoAnalytic Solutions' space-tracking software on a navigation camera aboard a satellite in orbit.

“How much does the world change if you can get anywhere in an hour?”

Japan has delayed the launch of a H-2A rocket planned for May to no earlier than August in the wake of the failed inaugural flight of H3 rocket.

Space Pioneer has become the first Chinese private launch firm to achieve orbit with a liquid propellant rocket.

Space Pioneer has become the first Chinese private launch firm to achieve orbit with a liquid propellant rocket.

A new NASA policy makes it unlikely future missions will be named after individuals in response to the controversy surrounding the naming of the James Webb Space Telescope.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off April 2 at 10:29 a.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, carrying 10 military satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency.

SpaceX has launched a batch of 10 communications and missile tracking satellites on the Tranche 0 Flight 1 mission for the Space Development Agency (SDA) on Sunday, April 2, 2023, at 7:29 AM PDT (14:29 UTC).

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted their Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX).