NASA awards Blue Origin, Nanoracks, Northrop Grumman over $400M in contracts to avoid space station gap
Just two days after officially (and quietly) confirming that it intends to replace the International Space Station with a commercial… Read More »
SpaceX’s Starlink is testing internet service for aircraft
SpaceX’s Starlink unit is testing its space-based internet service with several aircraft and wants to offer in-flight connection to airlines… Read More »
Nanoracks, Voyager Space, and Lockheed Martin Awarded NASA Contract
Nanoracks, in collaboration with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has been awarded a $160 million contract by NASA… Read More »
NASA details the International Space Station’s replacement with a commercial space station by 2030
NASA’s auditing body, the Office of Audits, has produced a report detailing the agency’s commitment to replacing the International Space… Read More »
U.S. Air Force awards contract for spaceborne weather data
U.S. Air Force recently awarded a $19.3 million contract to support a constellation of high-tech weather satellites capable of observing… Read More »
Inmarsat marks fifth anniversary of GX Aviation
Inmarsat is celebrating the fifth anniversary of GX Aviation, which since entering commercial service in 2016, has been selected by… Read More »
Senators say U.S. must strengthen space debris monitoring
A group of U.S. senators on Tuesday asked the Biden administration to do more to monitor and respond to space… Read More »
NASA gives green light to fuel James Webb Space Telescope
NASA engineers have cleared teams at the Guiana Space Center in South America to begin loading 63 gallons of fuel… Read More »
NASA and SpaceX Fire Earth defending rocket to shield from giant asteroids in the future
NASA just launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket taking off from California’s… Read More »
Voyager Space acquires majority stake in Space Micro
Voyager Space Inc. is acquiring a majority stake in Space Micro Inc. as part of a deal designed to help… Read More »
Astra successfully reaches orbit for the first time with latest rocket launch
There’s another launch company newly able to count itself among the small (but growing) group that has reached orbit: Astra…. Read More »
NASA and SpaceX are set to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid
Launching later this month, the DART mission will help understand how to redirect future Earth-threatening asteroids — it will also… Read More »
Musk says SpaceX aims to conduct first orbital flight of Starship in January 2022
SpaceX has been advancing the development of Starship, the largest ultra-super-heavy reusable launch system ever designed in history, at a… Read More »
U.S. raps Russia after missile strike on its own satellite as an ‘Irresponsible act’
The United States on Nov. 15 confirmed that a Russian anti-satellite missile test was responsible for causing a debris field… Read More »
SpaceX launches 53 Starlink internet satellites
SpaceX just launched its second rocket this week, this time carrying a stack of Starlink satellites into orbit in a… Read More »
Astronaut crew welcomed aboard International Space Station
Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency, arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday… Read More »
Unified approach needed to deal with COVID-19, says AirAsia Group CEO
Governments around the world need to look at unified approaches to managing COVID-19, the Group Chief Executive of Malaysian budget… Read More »
NASA, SpaceX launch more astronauts into orbit on flight to space station
NASA and private rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit late on Wednesday, sending a veteran spacewalker, two younger… Read More »
NASA engineers expected their Mars helicopter to crash after 5 liftoffs., it just landed its 15th flight
NASA sent its Ingenuity helicopter to Mars with no guarantee that it would successfully fly. But it has flown higher,… Read More »
Virgin Galactic’s “future astronauts” will be in the hands of an elite Canadian test pilot
Jameel Janjua calls them “future astronauts.” That’s partly corporate speak—Virgin Galactic’s preferred term for customers who pay upward of US$450,000… Read More »
Viasat to acquire Inmarsat
Viasat is to acquire Inmarsat in transaction valued at US$7.3 billion subject to regulatory approval. The definitive agreement, which Rick… Read More »
Wang Yaping is the first Chinese woman to ever complete a spacewalk
Wang Yaping, one of the three astronauts on China’s six-month Shenzhou-13 spaceflight mission, became the first Chinese woman to ever… Read More »