Space

Al Yah Satellite Communications reported a drop in revenue for the first half of the year, driven by a payload anomaly on its Thuraya 3 geostationary satcom.

SpaceX ended a two-week grounding of the world’s busiest rocket fleet with a trio of Falcon 9 launches over the weekend, dispatching Starlink satellites into orbit.

This follows the FAA’s decision to permit Falcon 9 launches to resume after a July 11 second-stage launch failure.

The decision follows the recovery of a piece of Dragon debris in Australia in 2022.

The FAA on July 25 said there were no public safety issues associated with the failure of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket two weeks ago, clearing the company to resume flights.

The DSMP satellite fleet has been in service since the early 1960s.

Another round of thruster tests are set for this weekend, and an agency return readiness review is set for late next week.

“This rock could potentially be very important,” says Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist.

A UK team has begun flight tests of an airborne 5G connectivity system.

Falcon 9 success streak ends after 325 consecutive flights.

NASA’s presence at EAA AirVenture 2024 drew a multitude of attendees to view its exhibits.

The service in 2023 awarded contracts to SES Space & Defense.

Blue Origin says it has resolved a problem that impaired operation of one of three parachutes on the last flight of its New Shepard suborbital system.

The U.S. Space Force has added another mission to the ongoing National Security Space Launch Phase 2 program.

The Lafayette, Colorado-based company will also increase its UK-based workforce to 15 employees and open a new office in Oxfordshire.

The demonstration aims to show Astroscale’s servicer spacecraft removing a Eutelsat OneWeb satellite from orbit.

The booster will be taken to the Vehicle Assembly Building for flight preparations for Artemis II.

Previously a British Army Air Corps officer and test pilot, Peake is a veteran of a Russian Soyuz-launched 186-day mission to the International Space Station.

NASA is proceeding with plans to set up a new global Lunar Exploration Ground Sites communications network to support upcoming Moon missions seeking to establish a sustained human presence there.

Leonardo is talking to Airbus and Thales about linking their satellite manufacturing businesses, officials say—which could help the companies to deal with slow demand.

ABL uses a deployable ground system that can be set up on a flat concrete pad.

The grid would provide long-term support of habitats, rovers and scientific research at the Moon’s south pole.

The 100-day mission was designed to hunt for water ice near the lunar south pole.

The 2024 National Strategy for the Arctic Region was released July 22.

"We are still taking a look at the cause of the water leak and what we want to do to recover," says Dana Weigel, NASA's ISS program manager.