BAKU, Azerbaijan — The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is working on plans for a new, large and reusable launch vehicle…
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TAMPA, Fla. — The Federal Communications Commission has fined Dish Network $150,000 for failing to properly remove a satellite from…
MIR Vibrationally-Assisted Luminescence (MIRVAL). (Courtesy: Dr Rohit Chikkaraddy, Assistant Professor in Physics at the University of Birmingham) A new, streamlined…
WASHINGTON — A plan floated by military agencies to interconnect commercial and government satellite networks into a “hybrid” space architecture…
HELSINKI — China will launch its Chang’e-6 lunar sample return mission next year in an attempt at a first-ever collection…
WASHINGTON — A short-term funding bill passed at the last minute includes a three-month extension of the “learning period” limiting…
WASHINGTON — NASA has selected SpaceX to launch a pair of smallsats to study space weather as part of a…
WASHINGTON — The American subsidiary of Japanese company ispace has revised the design of a lunar lander it is providing…
WASHINGTON — NASA has agreed to extend operations of its New Horizons spacecraft through late this decade to support “multidisciplinary”…
WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency awarded a $14.2 million contract to General Atomics to produce two optical communications terminals…
WASHINGTON — NASA has postponed the launch of the asteroid mission Psyche a week to update the configuration of thrusters…
Approaching quantum advantage: researchers have simulated a phase transition on a 20-qubit quantum processor. (Courtesy: iStock/agsandrew) A 20-qubit quantum processor…
The economic jackpot of space will dwarf the Internet, the automobile, and the Louisiana Purchase combined. Space mining will reap…
WASHINGTON — Mynaric’s laser communications terminals passed key ground tests required to be deployed on Space Development Agency satellites, the…
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Sept. 26 it had closed the mishap investigation into a failed launch by…
Going down: ALPHA-g’s barrel scintillator being assembled at CERN. (Courtesy: CERN) Antimatter does not “fall upâ€, but rather responds to…
WASHINGTON — A Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan Sept. 27, returning two Russians and one American from the International Space…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force Victus Nox mission that Firefly Aerospace launched Sept. 14 set a new record for…