NASA’s venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as expected on Friday (Nov. 1), the agency announced. NASA confirmed the spacecraft‘s demise...

SpaceX scrubbed a launch of its Starlink satellites this weekend due to an issue with one of its rockets. The company was scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket containing 23 of its Starlink satellites on Sunday (Nov. 3) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in...

Japan’s new H3 rocket flew for the fourth time ever on Monday morning (Nov. 4). The H3 launched Kirameki 3, a military communications satellite also known as DSN-3, from Tanegashima Space Center on Monday at 1:48 a.m. EST (0548 GMT; 3:48 p.m. local Japan time). The flight was apparently a...

China’s Shenzhou 18 crew have returned home after more than six months in space. Astronauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu lived on board China’s Tiangong space station since April 25 this year. They concluded their mission on Sunday (Nov. 3), touching down at the Dongfeng landing...

Four astronauts moved their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to a new space station docking port on Sunday (Nov. 3) to make way for an incoming cargo ship. The SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including two crew members formerly aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, moved their Crew Dragon capsule Freedom to...

The 10th Session of the Regional Committee of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa (UN-GGIM, Africa) took place from October 28 to November 1 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The gathering brought together leading geospatial experts and policymakers to explore the role of...

NewSpace Systems, a leading supplier of space components and subsystems, has announced the commencement of construction on its latest advanced manufacturing facility. Designed to support the company’s evolving manufacturing needs, this new site will feature a 1,200m² cleanroom, purpose-built for...

China’s Shenzhou 18 crew have passed the keys to the Tiangong space station to its new occupants. The Shenzhou 19 mission launched on a Long March 2F rocket from Jiuquan spaceport in northwest China on Oct. 29 and arrived at the Tiangong space station 6.5 hours later. Shortly thereafter, at...

India is eyeing a 2028 launch for its Chandrayaan-4 moon sample-return mission, followed by an uncrewed lander and rover in collaboration with Japan. S. Somanath, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), discussed the upcoming missions during an invited talk in New Delhi last...