Astronauts aboard China’s Tiangong space station have been getting some assistance from an “intelligent” robot. Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze — the crew of the current Shenzhou 19 mission aboard Tiangong — have been working alongside a robot named Xiao Hang (“Little...

Blue Origin plans to launch the debut mission of its powerful New Glenn rocket no earlier than early Monday (Jan. 13) after a delay, and you can watch the action live. New Glenn is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Monday’s wee hours during a...

SpaceX’s next Starship to fly is all dressed up for launch. On Friday (Jan. 10), SpaceX successfully stacked its Starship spacecraft atop a giant Super Heavy booster to prepare for the next launch of the world’s largest rocket next week. Liftoff is set for 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) on Monday...

SpaceX continues to extend its rocket-reuse record. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 of the company’s Starlink broadband satellites, including 13 with direct to cell capabilities, launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (Jan. 10) at 2:11 p.m. EST (1911 GMT). It was...

Starlink, Space X’s satellite internet service, has announced that the service is officially operational in Liberia. This marks Starlink’s first market entry into Africa in 2025, laying the groundwork for more penetration across the continent. This license comes after the Liberia Telecommunications...

Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigration, H.E. Dr Badr Abdelatty, welcomed H.E. Dr Tidiane Ouattara, the President of the Council of the African Space Agency and Dr Sherif Sedky, the CEO of the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA), in a meeting to reinforce Egypt’s leadership in regional space...

SpaceX launched another batch of U.S. spy satellites from California’s central coast tonight (Jan. 9). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight at 10:53 p.m. EST (7:53 p.m. local California time; 0353 GMT on Jan. 10) on the NROL-153 mission for the U.S. National...

SpaceX is gearing up for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket, which is just a few days away. The company rolled Starship‘s 165-foot-tall (50-meter-tall) upper stage — known as Starship, or simply “Ship” — out to the launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas this...

A private space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos has postponed the planned launch of its new giant rocket. Blue Origin was counting down toward the launch of its first New Glenn heavy-lift rocket at 1:00 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) on Friday (Jan. 10), but rough weather in the Atlantic Ocean —...