Aditya L1, India’s first mission to study the Sun, is inching closer to its destination, the Lagrange Point (L1), located 1.5 million kilometers away from the Earth. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had launched Aditya L1 on September 2, last year. ISRO could be attempting one of the...

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Tuesday (Jan. 2), on its first mission of 2024. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 21 Starlink craft lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:44 p.m. EST (0313 GMT on Jan. 3; 7:44 p.m. local California time)...

WASHINGTON — The commercial arm of India’s space agency ISRO announced Jan. 2 it will launch a large communications satellite later this year on a SpaceX Falcon 9, further underscoring SpaceX’s dominance in the global launch market. New Space India Ltd. (NSIL), the arm of ISRO responsible for...

NASA and Russia have agreed to keep launching American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts on each other’s spacecraft, media reports suggest. Roscosmos announced both it and NASA will continue the International Space Station launches with each other’s crew members through at least 2025...

A SpaceX cargo ship laden with science departed the space station today (Dec. 21) and headed back toward Earth. SpaceX‘s robotic Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) today at 5:05 p.m. EST (2205 GMT), as the two spacecraft were flying over the southwest coast...

Chinese launch startup Landspace appears ready to test launching and landing rockets. The company launched its third Zhuque-2 methane-fueled rocket on Dec. 8, successfully sending two satellites into orbit. It also revealed plans following the launch for a large stainless steel Zhuque-3 reusable...

A delegation from the French Space Agency CNES visited Colorado and Texas last week to expand ties between French and American aerospace companies. The officials, who jokingly refer to themselves as France’s NewSpace Musketeers, plan to establish virtual hubs in Denver and Houston for Connect by...

Virgin Galactic’s sixth commercial spaceflight will lift off next month, if all goes according to plan. The mission, known as Galactic-06, is targeted for Jan. 26, Virgin Galactic announced in a statement issued on Tuesday (Dec. 19). The flight will include four private astronauts — one from...

Firefly Aerospace plans to launch its fourth-ever mission today (Dec. 20), and you can watch the action live. The company’s Alpha rocket is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base today during a 20-minute window that opens at 12:24 p.m. EST (1724 GMT; 9:24...