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Launch Vehicles & Propulsion
Jan 03, 2025
The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) lists spacecraft as one of 15 priority areas in its Fiscal 2025 Investment Strategy.
Dec 19, 2024
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed €350 million ($363 million) in contracts with Avio to further evolve the Vega launcher family.
Commercial Space
Jan 07, 2025
The investment is part of a larger strategic capital and business alliance with Toyota aimed at the “mass production of rockets.”
Jan 06, 2025
As part of the agreement, AST SpaceMobile will provide Ligado Networks with $113 million of AST SpaceMobile warrants and usage rights payments.
Satellites
Dec 27, 2024
The rocket, also known as Kinetica-1, took off Dec. 27 at around 9:03 a.m. Beijing time.
Dec 20, 2024
Poland is buying four microsatellites as it looks to build out its space-based reconnaissance capabilities, with the constellation set to be deployed in 2027.
Budget, Policy & Regulation
Dec 19, 2024
The Finnish defense administration will develop the new strategy while also trying to identify how space impacts other parts of the defense system.
Dec 18, 2024
Nelson, who was appointed by President Joe Biden to head NASA in 2021, will be leaving the agency on Jan. 20.
Operations & Safety
Dec 19, 2024
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed €350 million ($363 million) in contracts with Avio to further evolve the Vega launcher family.
Dec 18, 2024
Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong have completed extensive extravehicular activities on the Tiangong space station lasting 9 hr. 6 min.
Space Exploration
Jan 07, 2025
Either option would cut the flagship $11 billion Mars Sample Return mission’s cost by at least 30% and as much as 47%.
Jan 02, 2025
The telemetry stream received by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab on Jan. 1 was to continue through Jan. 2.