Space

The Indian government has approved plans for a space investment fund, saying it has earmarked INR10 billion ($118 million) to the effort on a multiyear basis.

NASA's Crew-8 astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeannette Epps and their Russian cosmonaut colleague Alexander Grebenkin splashed down safely.

A number of initiatives were disclosed, but the talk of the show was SpaceX’s Starship booster catch, which happened just ahead of the IAC opening.

The sense of scale is almost impossible to convey, a European Space Agency scientist says.

The Operational Control System program, known as OCX, was established in 2010.

The analysis was released by NASA on Oct. 24.

The organization sits under the U.S. Space Force and is fielding hundreds of satellites under the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

The European Space Agency (ESA) is considering changes in its payment structure to ease the financial burden European space companies have been experiencing.

JISS is calling for Japan's Defense Ministry and the Japan Self-Defense Forces to develop its own tactical surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking satellites.

Blue Origin's second New Shepard vehicle flew with a dozen payloads as part of a shakedown run ahead of passenger flights.

The Enhanced Polar Satcom-Recapitalization (EPS-R) satellites were built by Northrop Grumman and launched Aug. 11.

Splashdown and recovery in the ocean waters off the Florida peninsula is expected no earlier than Oct. 25 at about 3:29 a.m. EDT.

The Space Force in 2021 selected Millennium and Raytheon, an RTX company, for the Epoch 1 program.

The demonstration is intended to show that commercial satellites can connect via laser communications to the PWSA.

The launch took place from the company’s Launch Site One near Van Horn, East Texas.

The EU's first commissioner for defense and space wants closer alignment between the two activities, and has also signaled a willingness to shake up Europe’s approach to launchers.

Qatar Airways has operated the world’s first Starlink-equipped Boeing 777 aircraft from Doha to London on Tuesday, 22 October 2024.

Reaching the Moon to do something useful there involves preparation—which is now underway as agencies and companies aim to return humans to the lunar surface.

Cobalt-60 is a radioactive isotope of cobalt that generates heat as it decays.

Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will splash down into either the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coasts.

Intelsat has lost power on one of its satellites serving Europe, Africa and some of Asia-Pacific, and it will likely be unable to recover the spacecraft.

SpaceX is receiving $733.6 million for the two launches.

The audit recommends that the agency conduct at least one schedule risk analysis prior to introduction of the new Mobile Launcher 2 (ML2).

The astronauts are NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt and Jeannette Epps. The cosmonaut is Alexander Grebenken.

The CP-12 mission is led by Draper Laboratory, and the APEX 1.0 lunar lander is being developed by Ispace Technologies U.S.