Rebooting a Spacecraft, 140 Million Kilometres From Home.
Engineers have just upgraded the software running a spacecraft 140 million kilometres away, then held their breath through two full reboots with an eight minute delay on every command. The…
Defense spending lifts Europe’s space economy
European government space spending jumped 12% to about $15.4 billion in 2025, according to a July 13 European Space Agency report, bucking a 3% global decline on the back of…
NASA Study Points to Smoother Air Taxi Rides
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Matt Kamlet, an employee at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, sits atop the virtual reality passenger…
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: SpaceX sets target date for next Starship rocket launch
SpaceX’s massive Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, is scheduled to launch its critical test flight no earlier than Thursday, July 16, at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT)…
L3Harris, Sierra Space to build 36 satellites to expand U.S. missile-tracking network
The Space Development Agency awarded the companies a combined $1.75 billion for next batch of missile-tracking satellites The post L3Harris, Sierra Space to build 36 satellites to expand U.S. missile-tracking…
Russia’s launching a NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts to the International Space Station on July 14: Watch it live
Three people will launch toward the International Space Station on Tuesday (July 14), and you can watch the action live. NASA’s Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina…
These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vaporized rock and grounds of scorching magma oceans
Clouds formed from vaporized rock could create the ultimate thermal insulation on one of the most common types of exoplanets discovered so far — the sub-Neptunes — raising temperatures so…
Chemistry Reveals the Origins of an Interstellar Comet
Somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy is an old star that has lost one of its comets. By some quirk of orbital mechanics, that frozen nucleus of ice and dust…
How the SKA Will Use Fast Radio Bursts to Decode the Universe
There are parts of the universe that are extremely hard to see, even for our most advanced telescopes. Gas and dust don’t emit any light, and are only visible by…
Poland to host new ESA center as government boosts investments in space
WARSAW, Poland — Poland will host the first European Space Agency (ESA) center located in an eastern flank member state, one that will be focused on civil security and resilience.…