An exercise device for the moon just had its first taste of microgravity. A flywheel design destined to fly on the Artemis 2 round-the-moon astronaut mission, no earlier than 2025, flew six parabolic flights in Canada during the week of July 15. Researchers flew in a business jet known as the Falcon...

We now know who will fly on SpaceX‘s Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) next year. On Thursday (Aug. 1), NASA revealed the four astronauts of Crew-10, which will launch toward the ISS no earlier than February 2025. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers will...

CubeSpace, a leading satellite component manufacturer, has announced its acquisition of Dawn Dusk, a satellite simulation software company. This strategic move integrates Dawn Dusk’s advanced satellite simulator with CubeSpace’s offerings, enhancing services for CubeSpace’s growing customer base...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company’s bounceback from a July 11 failure. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink craft lifted off from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday at 1:01 a.m. EDT (0501...

NASA and SpaceX are looking to launch the Crew-9 mission around the middle of this month. Crew-9, SpaceX‘s next astronaut launch to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA, is currently set for Aug. 18. The four astronauts that will be on board are commander Zena Cardman, pilot Nick...

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have announced the winners of the 8th round of the KiboCUBE programme. This initiative, part of the United Nations/Japan Cooperation Programme on CubeSat Deployment, will see a joint team...

There are continual, creaky reminders that the International Space Station is showing its age. Hissy-fit pressure leaks in the Russian segment, loss of attitude control on two separate occasions in 2021. To remain safe and sound for human occupants, the massive structure requires continuous...

Boeing Starliner’s two astronauts knew to expect the unexpected when they took off on the spacecraft’s first crewed mission on June 5. I learned this back in March, when NASA hosted reporters at the agency’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston for two days. We used four Starliner...

Observing a distant and messy collision between galaxy clusters, astronomers have discovered that dark matter, the most mysterious “stuff” in the universe, passed through the wreckage like a cosmic phantom. The dark matter was detected racing away from the conventional...