Exploration & Science Missions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a decisive move for the future of the Artemis campaign, NASA has officially awarded a delivery task order to Blue Origin for the transport of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the lunar South ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — NASA has selected the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to develop and manage the Lunar Freezer System (LFS), a mission-critical infrastructure component for the agency’s Artemis campaign. The Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) award, which carries a potential total ...

Senate Scutiny Targets NASA's Lunar Strategy Confirmation hearings for NASA Administrator nominee Jared Isaacman, billionaire and Polaris Dawn commander, commanded Capitol Hill's attention yesterday. Isaacman utilized his Senate appearance to push a high-stakes competitive agenda for the agency's human lunar ...

Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has been abruptly removed from the upcoming SpaceX Crew-12 mission, which is currently slated for a 2026 launch, following an alleged security breach involving highly sensitive, export-controlled technology at a SpaceX facility. Reports indicate that Artemyev ...

The global space race has entered a new, accelerated phase, characterized by an increasingly defined split in long-term strategic goals and infrastructure development. This division is fundamentally driven by geopolitical alignment rather than purely scientific motivation, creating two separate power ...

Thales Alenia Space has signed multiple contracts shaping the core industrial team that will build the European Space Agency (ESA) Argonaut Lunar Descent Element. ESA’s Argonaut Mission, planned for launch from the 2030s, will deliver cargo, infrastructure and scientific instruments ...

Endurance™ is a 750kg life-extension vehicle for geostationary satellites. Arrangements for a commercial mission have been signed by Infinite Orbits and SES. Together their contract will provide a first for Europe with a geostationary satellite life extension mission. Following an in-orbit ...

Included in the satellites is Spire’s next-generation Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder—a compact, space-ready sensor built to demonstrate global weather forecasting from space Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has now shipped nine satellites, all designed and built by the company’s in-house manufacturing ...

Sierra Space's Dream Chaser® spaceplane has completed a series of critical pre-flight tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), marking continued progress toward Dream Chaser’s first, free-flyer mission. Dream Chaser spaceplane being pulled at high speeds by a fifth-generationFreightliner Cascadia ...

The recent LVM3-M5/CMS-03 mission set for launch, photo courtesy of ISRO ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan has said the Indian government has approved the complex Chandrayaan-4 mission that is designed as a lunar sample-return mission for launch in 2028. The organization ...

Power beaming demo at Kennedy Space Center The lunar South Pole has drawn sustained attention from scientists, space agencies, and commercial innovators due to its potential reserves of water ice and its strategic value for long-term exploration. Deep craters remain ...

Testing the operational readiness of lunar terrain vehicles has been challenging because Earth-based environments such as rocky desert beds or confined test areas filled with small amounts of synthetic regolith lack the scale and adaptability to truly replicate the Moon’s ...

New Glenn on the launch pad at LC-36 ahead of the NG-2 mission. (November 8, 2025) Blue Origin's second flight of New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), a dual-spacecraft mission with University ...

Blue Origin's second flight of New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), a dual-spacecraft mission with University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory to study ion and sputtered escape from Mars on Wednesday ...

Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Lanteris Space Systems (“Lanteris”), formerly Maxar Space Systems, a proven spacecraft manufacturer with an exceptional record of delivering a highly reliable family of spacecraft for national security, ...

Sateliot will test a pioneering system that allows its satellites to connect with IoT devices without relying on satellite navigation systems (GNSS) such as GPS. This breakthrough opens new opportunities in sectors such as Security, where Europe’s technological autonomy and ...

UC Davis graduate students Ayush Patnaik (left) and Adam Zufall (right) working on a payload that will travel into space this fall. The payload is a digital twin that will use AI software to measure the activity and predict the ...

Shenzhou 21 rolls out for launch. (Credit: Xinhua News) On Friday, October 31, at 15:44 UTC China’s Tiangong space station is ready to receive three new taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) at the Shenzhou 21 mission Site 901 at the Jiuquan Satellite ...

Solstar Space (Solstar) has been awarded a NASA Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract valued at $150,000 to develop a next-generation Lunar Wi-Fi Access Point (LWIFI-AP) to support the agency’s Artemis program and Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) ...

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA™), a major IT research and consulting firm released a new report, "Enterprises Embrace AI-Driven Wi-Fi to Meet Today's Network Demands," authored by Shamus McGillicuddy, vice president of research for network infrastructure and operations at EMA. The ...