1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (550+ words) If you ask most satellite companies aside from SpaceX, they will tell you the world doesn’t have enough capacity for launching payloads into orbit. This is despite the blistering launch cadence we’ve seen around the world in recent years, led…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (617+ words) Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships. The European Space Agency is moving “full steam ahead” with development of a robotic mission to Venus after NASA officials determined they…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (436+ words) “We will not be relevant without a massive rocket at a massive cadence.” All of a sudden, French entrepreneur Hèlene Huby is seemingly everywhere. This week she is serving as one of two envoys, alongside astronaut Thomas Pesquet, at a high-profile…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (614+ words) The space economy will grow exactly as fast as we can launch rockets. Stoke Space announced Tuesday that it has raised another significant round of funding, $1 billion, as it makes a final push toward its debut launch next year. The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (404+ words) “Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there.” The normally genteel world of international space policy turned ugly this week as several prominent US space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2, and Starcloud—pulled…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (655+ words) Independent safety officials also have high praise for changes by NASA leadership. Perhaps the biggest question going into the Artemis II mission this spring was how the heat shield at the base of the spacecraft would perform during reentry through…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1122+ words) “We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our largest survey.” NASA’s $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, equipped with a 300-megapixel camera sighted through a refurbished spy mirror, launched Sunday from…...

2+ week, 56+ min ago   (495+ words) With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA’s science programs need a boost. As is standard procedure for major NASA missions, the US space agency held a post-launch news conference on Sunday morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (499+ words) SpaceX aims to launch Starship from Florida by the end of the year. 2027 seems more likely. SpaceX made Florida’s Space Coast home to the world’s busiest spaceport for a decade, but that will change this year. The company is significantly…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (485+ words) “This will be a project like no other.” Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said Tuesday that SpaceX will commit $100 billion to develop Starship factories and launch pads in coastal areas of the state. In doing so, the company seeks to replicate…...