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The European Commission has officially signed the Africa-EU Space Partnership Programme, a EUR 100 million initiative to strengthen space cooperation between Europe and Africa. This milestone, resulting from years of collaboration, is a flagship component of the EU’s Global Gateway strategy...
Even for Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one eruption centralized in a newly found hotspot region of Io estimated to be larger than Lake Superior on Earth. The...
The next lunar lander launch is nearly here — and it’s packed with mobile spacecraft and cutting-edge technology. Intuitive Machines‘ IM-2 lunar mission lander, named Athena, arrived at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday (Jan. 28), in preparation for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9...
A U.S. asteroid-mining company has announced the target space rock for its upcoming test mission. California-based AstroForge has identified asteroid 2022 OB5 as the destination for its Mission 2 spacecraft, named Odin, which is set to launch next month, SpaceNews reports. The Odin spacecraft will...
Two NASA astronauts working outside of the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 30) were able to finally remove a faulty radio communications unit, succeeding where two previous spacewalks had been unsuccessful. The extended work needed to free the radio frequency group (RFG) by Sunita...
The world’s leading rocket launch provider and a California-based space startup are teaming up to solicit research proposals for experiments that will fly aboard the first-ever commercial space station, slated to liftoff later this year. Vast Space is scheduled to launch the Haven-1 space...
The International Astronomical Union’s Office of Astronomy for Development (IAU-OAD) will support 13 global projects in 2025, selected to receive a total of EUR 69,500. Two ongoing multi-year projects have received EUR 21,000 for their second and third year of funding. This represents a 42.48%...
NASA’s second spacewalk of 2025 is set to begin today, with NASA’s Starliner astronauts tasked with retrieving hardware from the exterior of the space station. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to begin the station’s 274th spacewalk, U.S. EVA 92 early...
SpaceX has launched the next-generation Spanish communications satellite Wednesday night (Jan. 29), soaring the spacecraft into a geostationary transfer orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpainSat Next Generation 1 (SpainSat NG-1), a communications satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA) and...