Stoke Space raises $510 million
Stoke Space, a company developing a fully reusable launch vehicle, has raised $510 million to fund operations through its first launches, bringing its total capital raised to nearly $1 billion.…
Defense budgets on both sides of the Atlantic reshape space industry
European rearmament and Trump’s Golden Dome drive surge in investments and valuations, executives say The post Defense budgets on both sides of the Atlantic reshape space industry appeared first on…
Blue Origin flies sixth crewed New Shepard flight of 2025
Blue Origin launched its sixth crewed New Shepard flight so far this year Oct. 8 as the company works to increase the vehicle’s flight rate. The post Blue Origin flies…
The Most Metal-Free Star Ever Observed is Found In Our Own Backyard
Astronomers find a nearly metal-free star in our own back yard, which tells us a few interesting things about early star formation.
Open Source Mega-Constellations Could Solve Overcrowding
Duplicating expensive resources is expensive and wasteful, and most people would agree it’s unnecessary. However, the planned increase in major satellite constellations is currently causing a massive duplication of resources…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites on its 29th-ever liftoff
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched for the 29th time on Tuesday (Oct. 7), one shy of the company’s reuse record.
Tianwen-2 Probe Takes a Selfie with Earth to Mark China’s National Day
The China National Space Administration on Wednesday released a breathtaking image captured by the Tianwen-2 probe, showing the spacecraft and Earth framed together in a “celestial selfie.”
European Mars orbiter spies interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zooming past Red Planet (photos)
A European Mars probe witnessed the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS’ Red Planet flyby on Oct. 3, snapping imagery of the interloper from just 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) away.
Sateliot hails first standards-based IoT connection from LEO to a commercial device
Spain’s Sateliot says it has achieved the first narrowband connection from a LEO satellite to a commercial IoT device built to global 5G standards known as 3GPP Release 17. The…
The search for life on Venus just took another turn, thanks to JWST’s brown dwarf discovery
JWST’s detection of phosphine on a brown dwarf, also known as a “failed star,” could have repercussions for the claimed detection of the molecule on Venus.