The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to fine SpaceX more than $630,000 for allegedly failing to comply with regulations on two launches last year. “Safety drives everything we do at the FAA, including a legal responsibility for the safety oversight of companies with commercial...

Azercosmos, Azerbaijan’s space agency, has partnered with ABS, a global satellite operator, to launch Pay TV services for customers in Nigeria and West Africa. Azercosmos and ABS signed the agreement at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, which is taking...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been no stranger to taking things to the extreme since its launch on Christmas day 2021, observing early galaxies billions of light-years away that existed when the universe was at a fraction of its currently 13.8 billion-year life. Now, the powerful space...

Polaris Dawn has landed. The historic SpaceX astronaut mission — which conducted the first-ever private spacewalk, among other achievements —returned to Earth today (Sept. 15), splashing down safely in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida at 3:36 a.m. EDT (0736 GMT). “Polaris Dawn we...

Pursuant to the Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda, in its articles 116 and 112, His Excellency The President of the Republic, Paul Kagame, has appointed Hon. Mr Gaspard Twagirayezu as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Rwanda Space Agency (RSA). This appointment was made on September...

A model of SpaceX’s Starship Super Heavy rocket has passed NASA wind tunnel testing, marking another milestone in its development as part of plans to launch future Artemis missions to the moon. NASA tested a 1.2% scale model of the Super Heavy rocket in the transonic Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel...

SpaceX launched a new batch of Starlink satellites into orbit from its West Coast launch site on Thursday (Sept. 12). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink internet satellites soared into space from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:45 p.m. EDT (0145 GMT Friday, Sept. 13 or 6:45 p.m...

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug. 20, it took a quick look at Earth. The spacecraft returned some very exciting news: the Earth is indeed habitable. The probe launched in April 2023 and is currently making its way through the solar...

The private Polaris Dawn astronauts keep notching milestones in Earth orbit. The four-person Polaris Dawn mission launched aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule early Tuesday morning (Sept. 10). Later that day, the astronauts got farther from Earth — 870 miles (1,400.7 kilometers) — than any crewed...