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Launch Vehicles & Propulsion
Nov 13, 2024
SpaceX plans to step up the cadence of Starship-Super Heavy flight tests, with a sixth launch designed to build on last month’s successful booster landing catch.
Nov 11, 2024
AVIC subsidiary Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute has lifted the veil on its Haolong reusable cargo space shuttle.
Commercial Space
Nov 15, 2024
As low-Earth orbit is becoming increasingly busy, progress in AI could help reduce debris collisions and detect hostile spacecraft.
Nov 14, 2024
Terms of the contracts were not disclosed, nor how many launches each company was awarded.
Satellites
Nov 20, 2024
The International Space Station crew used propulsion from a Russian Progress resupply capsule to carry out an orbital debris avoidance maneuver, NASA says.
Nov 20, 2024
Lockheed Martin is preparing to launch its next technology demonstration spacecraft in 2025, with an eye toward U.S. programs and the international market.
Budget, Policy & Regulation
Nov 12, 2024
The challenges are even more relevant because of a constrained federal budget environment.
Nov 04, 2024
The UK Defense Ministry has awarded a contract to Airbus’s Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. for an Earth-observation satellite in a push toward sovereign ISR.
Operations & Safety
Nov 11, 2024
AVIC subsidiary Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute has lifted the veil on its Haolong reusable cargo space shuttle.
Nov 08, 2024
The Nov. 8 operation had already been set when the resupply mission docked to the U.S. segment of the ISS earlier this week.
Space Exploration
Nov 26, 2024
Launched Oct. 14 atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, the $5.2 billion mission will perform a series of 49 flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa beginning in 2031.
Nov 25, 2024
The launch is dubbed Blue Ghost Mission 1, or “Ghost Riders in the Sky.”