Space

NASA on Feb. 2 was nearing the end of a two-day practice launch countdown for the upcoming Artemis II Moon mission, including fueling the SLS rocket.

NASA’s IMAP has begun its two-year primary mission to explore and map the boundaries of the protective bubble called the heliosphere.

CesiumAstro, a startup that produces sat payloads and terminals for advanced and secure comms systems, has closed a $470 million Series C funding round.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has twice successfully demonstrated drives on the red planet planned by artificial intelligence.

Singapore is set to deploy a new constellation of SAR satellites as it builds out its Earth-observation portfolio, including through a partnership with Airbus.

Leonardo has started building the first satellites for a company-funded, multi-sensor low-Earth-orbit constellation, with launches to start next year.

Connectivity provider Gogo is mounting a push to outfit some of the hundreds of C-130s with a new rear hatch to enable in-flight satellite links for special forces and other uses.

Airbus plans to finally deploy the Superbird-9 broadcast and broadband satellite for Japan’s SKY Perfect JSAT next year after multiple delays, Schoellhorn says.

Transcelestial is branching out with its space-based laser links to provide intra-satellite connectivity

SpaceX has shared plans to deploy a vast network of data center satellites in the most ambitious bid yet to shift computer processing capability to space.

Singapore has announced it will establish a national space agency to help underpin its ambitions in the space economy.

Countdown clocks at NASA's Kennedy Space Center began ticking down toward a simulated launch of the Artemis II Moon mission.

Axiom Space has been selected by NASA for a fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the company announced Jan. 30.

Blue Origin said it will stop flying its New Shepard suborbital vehicles for at least two years so it can focus company resources on supporting Moon exploration initiatives, including NASA’s Artemis program.

NASA is flexing plans to restore the International Space Station (ISS) to its usual seven crewmembers.

ArianeGroup is accelerating the production of strap-on boosters to ramp up the launch cadence of the two-booster Ariane 62 and four-booster Ariane 64 versions.

NASA said it is standing down from a planned Jan. 31 wet dress rehearsal of its second Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

SpaceX says it has developed a space situational awareness system it will make available to others to mitigate the risk of collisions.

Russia plans the inaugural launch of the Soyuz-5 medium-lift vehicle at the end of March, the deputy head of Roscosmos state corporation Dmitry Baranov says.

German rocket startup Isar Aerospace says it may return to the launchpad for its first attempt at an orbital launch as soon as March 19.

Military space systems require the kind of self-protection capability long associated with combat aircraft, the Spanish Space Commander argues.

Italy is looking at how to quickly regenerate lost space systems in times of conflict as the country seeks to prepare for future wars.

The Space Development Agency will test whether commercial deorbiting can keep its low-Earth-orbit architecture safe and sustainable.

Blue Origin’s first lunar lander is en route to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for thermal vacuum testing ahead of launch later this year.

Eutelsat announced late Jan. 29 that the previously proposed sale of its ground segment to investor EQT Infrastructure VI will not occur.