Space

The groups conduct community-wide, interdisciplinary planning and assessments for lunar, Mars, Mercury, Venus, small bodies, outer planets and other planetary research.

Spanish aerospace and defense equipment company Indra says it is aiming to become a top-tier space company through its acquisition of Hispasat.

Airbus’ high-altitude pseudo-satellite spinoff company Aalto has completed its first flight from its new base in Kenya. Tony Osborne reports.

Airbus’ high-altitude pseudo-satellite spinoff company Aalto has completed its first flight from its new base in Kenya.

The ISRO is trying to figure out how to recover from the failure of bringing the NVS-02 navigation satellite to its orbital position.

The deal marks the latest shakeup in the satellite communications sector.

The planned launch from Kennedy Space Center is set for no earlier than this spring aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon.

French space agency CNES, operator of Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, is preparing a new contractual relationship with launcher manufacturer Avio.

Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson has disclosed the August 2024 launch of its first military satellite, GNA-3, and detailed plans for future missions.

After President Trump signed an executive order for “Iron Dome for America,” editors discuss how an idea that dates back to the Cold War could take shape today.

The asteroid mining startup is to launch Odin mounted underneath Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander mission.

Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore enhanced their extended mission to the ISS by recovering an RFG antenna.

British services company Serco is buying Northrop Grumman’s mission training and satellite ground network communications software business, the company says.

Virgin Galactic has partnered with space infrastructure company Redwire to build research payload lockers for its next-generation Delta-class spaceplane.

ESA has signed an $897 million contract with Thales Alenia Space for the manufacturer to deliver cargo to the lunar surface under ESA’s Argonaut Mission.

The flagship product of the collaboration is Site3D, a 3D point cloud map of the Earth’s surface.

The M-class has a payload capacity of 1,000 kg (2,200 lb.) and 8 kW of peak power, York announced Jan. 29.

Findings from a pair of extensive research efforts were published Jan. 29 by the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy.

The partners will use Vertix AI, Google Cloud’s machine learning platform, to analyze decades of solar activity data.

The European Space Agency says that as of Jan. 29 “the probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 may impact Earth on 22 December 2032 is 1.2%.”

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans the fifth mission for the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H3 rocket on Feb. 1.

The latest configuration of Boeing's Lunar Orbiter, seen from above, shows the directional antenna (top) and omnidirectional antenna (lower right) extended. Four solar panels are deployed, and the silvery, bulbous shape at the center houses the Eastman camera sub-system.

Airbus plans to provide an update on the technical assessment of a major space program when it publishes full-year results next month.

Planet Labs says it has secured a $230 million contract to build Pelican high-resolution satellites for an unnamed customer and announced a data provision deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to support the Copernicus program.

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has completed a series of payload integration tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida which keep it on track for a planned mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.