Exploration & Science Missions

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 ...

Impulse Space has unveiled a proposed mission architecture for delivering multiple tons of cargo to the Moon in the near term—the plan combines Impulse’s existing Helios kick stage and a new lunar lander, to be developed in-house. HELIOS Launched on ...

The eleventh flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, October 13. The launch window will open at 6:15 p.m. CT. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff, which ...

Solstar Space (Solstar) was recently 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) ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle lifted off from their West Texas launch site today at 9:40 a.m. EDT (1340 GMT; 8:40 a.m. local Texas time), launching this suborbital flight known as NS-36. Photos captured by Satnews. New Shepard's first stage ...

Axiom Space and Resonac Corporation (“Resonac”) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the research, development and manufacturing of high-performance semiconductor materials in the environment of space. This collaboration paves the way toward leveraging microgravity to advance ...

Artistic rendition of HydroGNSS on-orbit, courtesy of ESA The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) HydroGNSS mission, which will investigate the Earth’s water cycle, has landed in California and is ready to start preparations for launch. Changes in the global water cycle ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has successfully performed a rendezvous, proximity operations and docking demonstration with Starlab Space Stations and Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG). This event marks the latest milestone in developing this fully autonomous capability for Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus ...

Sierra Space has announced a strategic transition for the company's Dream Chaser® spaceplane. Dream Chaser’s first flight will be a free-flyer, demonstration mission, which is expected to prove the technology and deliver critical data to NASA. This approach aims to ...

Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has been awarded a contract from Axiom Space to develop and deliver roll-out solar array (ROSA) wings for Axiom Station’s Payload Power Thermal Module (AxPPTM)—the first module for the company’s commercial space station. Axiom Space's Habitat ...

NASA Delivers Artemis II Hardware to Kennedy The Artemis II crew members named their Orion spacecraft Integrity during a news conference September 24. The name Integrity embodies the foundation of trust, respect, candor, and humility across the crew and the ...

Firefly Aerospace (Nasdaq: FLY) has received a $10 million contract addendum under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative for acquisition of additional science and operational data collected beyond the initial contractual requirements for Blue Ghost Mission 1 – the ...

Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has delivered two Explorer-class spacecraft to Kennedy Space Flight Center for NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory. Last year Rocket ...

On a sunny Sunday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched Northrop Grumman’s next Cygnus mission (NG-23) to the International Space Station. Liftoff was 6:11 p.m. ET This mission will be the first flight of ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and AeroVironment (“AV”) (NASDAQ: AVAV) collaborated on the air launch of a Switchblade 600 loitering munition (LM) from a GA-ASI Block 5 MQ-9A unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The flight testing took place from July ...

Blue Origin manufactured this working solar cell prototype from lunar regolith simulants Blue Origin has revealed that the company's in-space resource utilization system, Blue Alchemist, has successfully completed its Critical Design Review (CDR), marking a transformative milestone toward humanity's permanent ...

COMCUBE-S is a technical project aiming to develop new capabilities for observing Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB)—short-lived and extremely powerful events in space. By delivering faster and more detailed information about these phenomena, the mission will support scientists in making new ...