SpaceX test-fired the upper stage of its seventh Starship megarocket again recently, this time practicing for an in-space engine burn. The company ignited all six of the Flight 7 Starship spacecraft’s Raptor engines for about 10 seconds on a test stand at its Starbase facility in South Texas...

SpaceX’s 31st robotic cargo mission has made it back to Earth. SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule splashed down off the Florida coast at 1:39 p.m. EDT (1839 GMT) today (Dec. 17), a day after undocking from the International Space Station (ISS). CRS-31 returned to Earth with thousands of...

The European Commission on Monday awarded contracts to push forward delayed plans for a 10.6 billion euro ($11.13 billion) secure European satellite constellation in response to Elon Musk’s Starlink and other fast-growing internet networks. The multi-orbit array of more than 280 satellites...

SpaceX launched the mysterious RRT-1 mission from Florida’s Space Coast today (Dec. 16), after high winds scuttled a previous attempt. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (Dec. 16) at 7:51 p.m. EDT (0051 on Dec. 17), kicking off a mission that SpaceX...

Things are getting hot for SpaceX’s next Starship launch. SpaceX fired up its next Starship spacecraft during an engine test over the weekend, ahead of the company’s 7th orbital test flight of the gargantuan megarocket. SpaceX ignited Starship’s Raptor engines for approximately 10...

SpaceX’s 31st robotic cargo mission is headed back to Earth. SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on schedule today (Dec. 16) at 11:05 a.m. EST (1605 GMT) today (Dec. 16). The spacecraft will begin a series of deorbit burns to complete the...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) EO AFRICA Research and Development Facility has disclosed ten innovative research projects to be conducted by African-European tandems, marking the outcome of the third call for proposals launched in July 2024. These projects, which will commence in December 2024...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) plans to purchase an Earth Observation satellite using a USD 20 million financing arrangement from SICOMINES, a strategic mining partnership between Chinese and Congolese investors. Gilbert Kabanda, Minister of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation...

On Dec. 16, 1962, NASA launched the Explorer 16 spacecraft to study micrometeoroids near Earth. The mission would determine how likely it would be for spacecraft to get damaged by the small space rocks and dust particles around the Earth. The cylindrically shaped spacecraft measured about 6 feet...