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July 15, 2026

The company is confident that the new plant will help to place Spain among the main industrial actors in the development of advanced solutions for space missions and technologies of..

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has spotted a swathe of metallic-looking waves filling Mars’s large Kaiser Crater – an ancient and otherworldly dune field sculpted by wind.

With this technology, China aims to strengthen the competitiveness of its commercial space industry and to cut distances with the United States. In parallel, China has started the intensive phase of..
July 14, 2026

Doubling the service from roughly 10,000 to 20,000 military members by 2030 is not a trivial matter. Here are a few options the next service chief should consider.

A glowing landscape of gas and dust is heated and illuminated by a thriving population of young stars in the LH 95 region of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

U.S. Space Force Col. Anil Menon launched aboard NASA’s Expedition 75 mission to the International Space Station, bringing with him a career shaped by operational medicine, military service and…

Four new binary systems identified less than 65 light-years from us

Federal Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius visited Bremen-based space company OHB today to gain firsthand insight into current space programmes, technological developments, and the importance of…

The next crew launch to the International Space Station took place on Tuesday, July 14,… The post Soyuz MS-29 launches new crew to ISS from Baikonur appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com .

The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the early universe.

Cebu Pacific announced it will bring Starlink satellite internet service to its aircraft, making it the first low-cost… The post Cebu Pacific to become first SEA low-cost carrier with Starlink Wi-Fi…

Yesterday, the four Artemis II astronauts visited ESA’s technical site in the Netherlands, where they met the team behind the European Service Module that powered their Orion spacecraft around the…

According to Dalloneau, many countries need space data, but few have the full capacity to access them independently, a capacity Canada aspires to..
July 13, 2026
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Seven launches are scheduled worldwide this week, including the 13th flight test of SpaceX’s Starship… The post Launch Preview: Soyuz to launch crew to ISS, Starship to fly another test flight…

The Starlink 10-45 mission added another 29 broadband internet satellites to SpaceX’s low Earth orbit constellation. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 5:10 a.m…

It is full steam ahead at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as teams process and assemble flight hardware in preparation for the upcoming crewed Artemis III mission. Less than three months…

The United States Space Force has announced implementation of a temporary Initial Enlistment Bonus Pilot Program, offering a $25,000 bonus to incoming enlisted Guardians who commit to an eight-year…
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The Starlink 15-14 mission will add another 27 broadband internet satellites to the low Earth orbit constellation. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 6:28:17 p.m. PDT…

The U.S. Space Force graduated 14 Guardians from its first Regional Space Advisor Academics Course at the Pentagon. The program aims to develop international affairs and security cooperation skills…

Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."

NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

The Space Force’s TacRS program has at least three more Victus demonstration projects in the works, with a total of $300 million requested from fiscal 2027 to 2031.

This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the company's "fly, fail, fix" approach to rocket development, which often ends in…

Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) has completed its acquisition of Astrobotic Technology, Inc. The close comes as NASA recently awarded two new lunar lander missions to the company and Griffin…

Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as cotton candy.

Throughout the Space Age the United States worked on space nuclear power and propulsion systems, although very few actually made it to space. Dwayne Day examines those programs and what went wrong.

While the United States has made extensive use of space capabilities in its ongoing conflict with Iran, that country has also made use of space. Three experts examine Iran's access to satellite…

Humanity has long been inspired by the night sky. Richard Logue offers a new way to provide that inspiration through a series of spacecraft that would be visible from the ground while also testing…

A payload processing facility at the Kennedy Space Center has been used for dozens of missions over the years, but one of them was not publicly documented. James Behling discusses the secrecy behind…

For decades British companies worked on concepts for spaceplanes that could take off from a runway and go to space. Jeff Foust reviews a book that examines those projects and the limited progress…