Excitement about the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics extends out into space. The six NASA astronauts currently living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) held their own mini-Olympics to mark the start of the games, which are being held in Paris and other sites around France. We get a...

We’ll all have to wait a bit longer to see the first-ever private spacewalk. SpaceX is now targeting mid- to late August for the launch of Polaris Dawn, a mission funded by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman. The upcoming flight, which will employ SpaceX‘s Crew Dragon spacecraft and...

The next space station astronaut crew may be the last to splash down in the ocean nearby the U.S. east coast. The Crew Dragon Crew-9 mission with astronauts is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than Aug. 18, perhaps becoming the final NASA-led ISS mission to arrive in...

Key Highlights Q-KON unveiled new OneWeb Twoobii-LEO user terminals with a successful demonstration at an exclusive Midrand, South Africa event. The new terminals offer a crucial backup to traditional fibre networks, maintaining seamless operations during fibre outages. Q-KON has released new OneWeb...

SpaceX says it has identified and fixed the problem that caused its Falcon 9 rocket to fail during a launch earlier this month. That failure occurred on July 11, as a Falcon 9 carried 20 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites toward low Earth orbit. The rocket’s first stage performed...

Boeing’s Starliner will do a “hot fire” test in orbit soon, as NASA and the company continue to probe the cause of thruster failures and a helium leak in space. Starliner will conduct the test-fire of its 28-thruster reaction control system (RCS) on either Saturday (July 27) or...

Blue Origin has announced the crew for its next New Shepard space tourism flight. The diverse crew includes a NASA-funded researcher, a professor, a university student, a cardiologist and entrepreneurs, Blue Origin announced in a statement on Wednesday (July 24). The announcement signals that Blue...

China has test-fired a new engine for a planned rocket designed to take astronauts to the moon. The liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen engine, sometimes referred to as the YF-75E, was tested by the Sixth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the country’s state-owned...

“Why do we go to space?” asked NASA administrator Bill Nelson to a small crowd at NASA headquarters last week. “We go to explore the heavens, but we also go to improve life here on Earth, and that includes attacking this dreaded disease that we know is cancer.” Nelson was...