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Shares of Intuitive Machines jumped in trading on Friday after the company’s successful first moon landing.

China launched the TJS-11classified satellite early Friday as the country continues to build its geostationary capabilities.

A brand new week of spaceflight is approaching with SpaceX preparing to launch three Starlink missions, China getting ready to send two payloads to orbit, including one on the powerful Chang Zheng 5 (CZ-5) rocket, and Roscosmos preparing to launch Russian-built satellites to orbit atop Soyuz.

“We’re not dead yet."

A robotic lander developed by Intuitive Machines landed safely on the moon Feb. 22, becoming the first privately developed spacecraft to touch down on the moon and the first American spacecraft to do so in more than half a century.

British satellite broadband operator Avanti Communications announced plans Feb. 22 to integrate the low Earth orbit services Canada’s Telesat aims to bring online in 2027 with its regional geostationary network.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency seeks to leverage commercial satellite imagery and data analytics to enhance its global monitoring capabilities

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SpaceX has an aggressive plan for Starship in 2024, planning to launch the rocket at least nine times this year, according to...

A year-old Portuguese startup has raised around $2 million to fly a payload on a commercial small satellite to demonstrate plans for a narrowband connectivity network.

Commercial space station developer Vast Space says it plans to bid on two future NASA private astronaut missions to the International Space Station, providing competition to Axiom Space.

We’re six years on from NASA declaring it would look to American companies to deliver cargo and research to the moon. Now we’re just hours away from the first potential landing 

"They're looking at a pretty aggressive launch schedule this year."

Payloads: Actiwatch-Plus: Four Actiwatch-Plus units were connected to the HRF-1 rack for charging and data downlink. The Actiwatch-Plus is a waterproof, non-intrusive, sleep-wake activity monitor worn on the wrist of a crewmember and contains a miniature uniaxial accelerometer that produces a signal as the subject moves. The data is stored in non-volatile memory within the …

As tensions rise over Russia's potential orbital nuclear weapon, experts argue the need for greater space domain awareness.

Much like Intuitive Machines’ spacecraft, its stock has been flying to the moon the past week.

A Varda Space Industries capsule landed in the Utah desert Feb. 21 as part of the company’s efforts to demonstrate space manufacturing technologies.

The cargo ship Canopée has completed a ten-day transatlantic voyage to deliver the core and second stages of the first Ariane 6 rocket to its launch site in French Guiana. Canopée departed Le Havre, France, where the rocket’s core stage was loaded onto the 121-metre vessel on 10 February. It arrived off the coast of […] The post Core and Second Stages for Ariane 6 Maiden Flight Arrive in Kourou appeared first on European Spaceflight.

Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 successfully entered lunar orbit today, readying for its scheduled landing tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 pm ET. IM-1’s lander, Odysseus, will take about an hour to descend from […]

U.S. regulators will vote March 14 on a regulatory framework for allowing satellites to use radio waves from terrestrial mobile operators to keep their smartphone users connected beyond the reach of cell towers.

Pairing of two launch companies could provide more robust competition to SpaceX.

Payloads: Advanced Plant Experiment-10 (APEX-10): The crew deactivated Veggie units 1 and 3. On Earth, plant and microbial associations are key to the success of individual plants, but scientists do not fully understand how the space environment may alter these associations. Plant-Microbe Interactions in Space (APEX-10) tests whether the beneficial microbe Trichoderma harzianum confers increased …

Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander mission entered orbit around the moon Feb. 21, setting up a landing attempt in a day.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Tuesday, equipped with a satellite for Indonesia known as “Telkomsat,” which...

Raymond retired from military service in October 2022.

A demonstration run by SES Space & Defense will integrate satellites in geostationary, medium and low orbits

One of SpaceX’s senior executives is leaving, CNBC has learned, in a rare high-level departure from Elon Musk’s space company.

Failure is now an option at the US space agency.

The joint DLR/ESA TEXUS-59 suborbital science mission was successfully launched on 15 February from Esrange Space Center in Sweden. TEXUS-59 was launched at 14:42 UTC aboard a two-stage Brazilian VSB-30 sounding rocket. The rocket reached a maximum apogee of 264.5 kilometres before returning back to Earth. It was then recovered, allowing researchers to examine the […] The post TEXUS-59 Science Mission Successfully Launched from Esrange appeared first on European Spaceflight.

The impending reentry of a defunct European satellite serves as a reminder of the hazards posed by existing objects even as agencies work to mitigate the growth of orbital debris.

A software glitch prevented the upper stage of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket from completing a second burn during a December launch, stranding its payload in a low orbit.

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by the detection of random, mysterious radio bursts that seemingly originate from deep space. Recently, a team announced the detection of another one of these puzzling radio bursts, which was observed by two NASA X-ray telescopes — the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) telescopes, which both operate from low-Earth orbit.

87 Progress (87P) Docking: Following the completion of a 34-orbit rendezvous, 87P successfully docked to the SM aft port on Saturday, February 17th, at 6:06 AM CST. On Sunday, the crew then performed leak checks, opened hatches, and began unloading cargo. Carrying food, fuel, and supplies, 87P launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday, February …

Following a failure with the second stage engine in March 2023 during its maiden flight, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched its second H3 rocket on January 16th, 2024. The vehicle lifted off at 9:22:55 AM local time, carrying a variety of demonstration payloads, finally certifying the long awaited launch vehicle for flight. With its first flight in the books, H3 now aims to compete on a global stage in the launch market, with broader goals of contributing to the Artemis program and beyond.

French maritime surveillance provider Unseenlabs plans to launch its 12th and 13th nanosatellite no earlier than March, passing the halfway mark for a constellation slated to begin tracking vessels in near real-time in 2025.

Chinese launch firm Space Circling has secured more than 100 million yuan ($13.9 million) in funding to back its work on innovative engines to power commercial space activities.

Shares of Intuitive Machines jumped for a third consecutive trading session, surpassing their post-SPAC debut price, as the company’s first mission completed further milestones as it approached the moon.

Historically closed bidding processes have been linked to corruption.

A United Nations committee will study the interference risks that satellite constellations pose to astronomy, a year after rejecting a similar proposal to do so.

Problems with satellite programs forced Airbus to take 600 million euros ($650 million) in charges in 2023.

While the Pentagon has long pursued augmented GPS capabilities, including using allied backup systems, it is now scoping a burgeoning commercial market promising innovative options to reduce GPS dependence.

The UK Space Agency announced 20 February that it could make up to £15 million in funding available for science and technology payloads should the country proceed with a proposed Axiom mission. In October 2023, the United Kingdom signed an agreement with the Houston-based private astronaut transportation company Axiom Space. The agreement set out plans […] The post UKSA May or May Not Offer £15M for Science Aboard Axiom Mission appeared first on European Spaceflight.

The recent increase in launches to meet growing demands for communications and observation satellites is adding more and more spacecraft to orbit every year. This is especially true in the more congested low-Earth orbit (LEO).

Lockheed Martin and Rhea Group win $5 million in MoD awards

Industry frustration with the way the U.S. government has been buying commercial weather data rained on NOAA's parade during the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting in Baltimore.

The launch vehicle startup plans to manufacture, test and begin launching rockets and satellites from the Bowen Orbital Spaceport in North Queensland.

What goes up must come down.

Bridgit Mendler is no stranger to reaching millions of people — now she wants to change how satellite data reaches the ground.

The IM-1 mission by Intuitive Machines is on track to attempt a landing on the moon later this week after performing an in-flight test of its main engine.