NASA’s recently extended Juno mission to Jupiter this week transmitted its first close-up images of the giant planet’s icy moon Ganymede, the Solar System’s largest lunar companion.
Commercial satellite operator Sternula has entered a new partnership with the Ghana Maritime Authority, to enable satellite-based VDES to be used for enhancing navigation and safety in Ghanaian waters.
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed a seventh excursion through the skies of Mars on June 8, traveling south 348 ft. in 62.8 sec. as part of a series of flight tests to prepare for future aerial planetary exploration campaigns.
NASA’s Lunar IceCube has completed prelaunch environmental testing at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, in preparation for its flight as a secondary payload aboard the Artemis I mission later this year.
Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) and Airbus have announced a key milestone in the construction of the Thuraya 4-NGS next generation mobile telecommunications system, the successful completion of its Preliminary Design Review (PDR).
An upcoming Pentagon report concludes that classified U.S. technology is not behind the hundreds of UAP sightings by military pilots and other credible witnesses.
City of Houston officials joined with Collins Aerospace on June 7 to ceremonially break ground on the construction of an 8-acre campus on the grounds of Houston Spaceport.
Air Force officials described the broad outlines of the Rocket Cargo Vanguard program during a media roundtable on June 4 at the Pentagon, but contract solicitation documents released on the same day provide deeper insights into the Air Force’s plans for the potentially $250 million demonstration program.
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said he will be aboard for the first crewed flight of the company’s New Shepard suborbital space transportation system, along with his brother Mark, the winner of an ongoing auction and possibly up to three additional passengers.
SpaceX conducted its 18th Falcon 9 launch of the year on June 6, pausing the deployment of its own Starlink communications network to deliver a 7,500-lb. satellite into orbit for SiriusXM’s digital radio service.
Launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on June 3 at 1:29 p.m. EDT, the commercial freighter with 7,300 lb. of cargo docked to the space-facing port of the station's Harmony module at 5:09 a.m. EDT, for a monthlong stay.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has selected the Rocket Cargo project—determining the viability of using large commercial rockets for military logistics—as the fourth vanguard program and believes SpaceX is not the sole provider of the new technology.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is standing down from its planned June 23 launch of an Atlas V rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) spacecraft to review a potential issue.
United Launch Alliance is standing down from its planned June 23 launch of an Atlas V rocket with the Air Force Test Payload-3 to review a potential issue with oscillations of the booster’s upper stage engine nozzle, the company said on June 4.
A joint effort underway by Vandenberg Space Force Base with state and central California government and educational agencies to add commercial launch capabilities forecasts a favorable economic impact as the challenges the partnership has identified with an unfolding master plan are met.
ASECNA, NIGCOMSAT and Thales Alenia Space are working together to accelerate the development of SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation System) services for aviation in Africa.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on June 3, sending a Dragon Cargo ship on its way to the International Space Station with more than 7,300 lb. of equipment and supplies.
Space situational awareness startup LeoLabs is expected to accelerate the expansion of its ground-based radar sites and subscription services after securing $65 million in Series B funding.
The Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) subsidiary of UAE-based Al Yah Satellite Communications Company, Thuraya, has launched its web-based SatTrack maritime tracking and monitoring service in partnership with FrontM, an international developer of software applications.
