The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6956 isn't just pretty to look at in this new Hubble photo, it's an essential tool for understanding the universe.
Data from the NASA mission EMIT will help the new initiative Carbon Mapper track the greenhouse gas methane from waste sites.
NASA's Juno spacecraft is recovering its memory after a download disruption following its December flyby of Jupiter.
A new Hubble Space Telescope image displays the quintessential colors of the holiday season: bright blue-white stars shine against dusty swaths shaded red.
The Earth looks amazing in this first global view from NOAA's new NOAA-21 imaging satellite, which launched in November 2022.
Clear skies beckoned Wednesday (Dec. 28) in Rome, allowing the Virtual Telescope Project's Gianluca Masi to get busy with a year-end broadcast.
NASA astrobiologist Heather Graham answers pressing questions about life on Mars.
An astrophotographer has captured a highly detailed image of the Red Planet reappearing from behind the moon after a lunar occultation.
Detecting life on the icy Saturn moon of Enceladus could be achieved without even landing, but it wouldn't be easy, scientists say.
Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search China looks to build space partnerships with Gulf nations by Andrew Jones December 30, 2022 An image of the Earth taken in 2018 by Saudi Arabian optical payload on the Longjiang-2 microsatellite in lunar orbit . Credit : Harbin Institute of Technology KACST HELSINKI â China is aiming to grow cooperation with emerging space nations including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Space was named as one of a number of priority areas for the next three to five years during the
Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search SpaceX completes record year with Israeli imaging satellite launch by Jeff Foust December 30, 2022 A Falcon 9 lifts off Dec . 30 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California carrying the EROS C3 imaging satellite on SpaceX's 61st and final launch of 2022. Credit : SpaceX webcast WASHINGTON â SpaceX capped off the busiest year in its two-decade history Dec . 30 with a Falcon 9 launch of a commercial Israeli imaging . satellite A Falcon 9 lifted off at 2:38 a.m . Eastern from Space
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Late last month, the UK Civil Aviation Authority issued a launch and range control license to Virgin
Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search China sends second Shiyan-10 test satellite sent into orbit with its final launch of 2022 by Andrew Jones December 29, 2022 Launch of the Long March 3B rocket carrying Shiyan-10 02 from Xichang on Dec . 29 UTC 2022. Credit : OurSpace HELSINKI â China has conducted its 64th and final launch of the year , sending the Shiyan-10 02 into orbit from Xichang . spaceport A Long March 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China at 11:43 p.m . Eastern Dec . 28,
, Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search Op-ed Promoting , protecting and defending freedomâ s expansion in space by James Frelk and Chris Williams December 28, 2022 Credit : iStock image U.S . expansion into the high frontier of space has proven to be critically important to global security and economic growth . Commercial space assets are an essential element of U.S . national defense plans and operations and serve as an economic growth multiplier through communications , position knowledge , Earth observation , and
Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search Thales Alenia Space studying reusable spacecraft for in-orbit manufacturing by Jason Rainbow December 28, 2022 Thales Alenia Space is designing REV1 to spend several months in orbit before returning to Earth . Credit : Space Cargo Unlimited TAMPA , Fla . â Uncrewed rather than crewed spacecraft will be key to realizing an emerging in-orbit manufacturing industry , according to a European venture that has tasked Thales Alenia Space to develop a vehicle called REV1 for missions
Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search NASA made sole-source award for space station spacesuit by Jeff Foust December 28, 2022 Collins Aerospace has offered few technical details about its suit design , but a company official says the suit it is developing for the ISS under a sole-source task order could be adapted for lunar missions . Credit : Collins Aerospace WASHINGTON â A task order Collins Aerospace received to develop a new spacesuit for the International Space Station was awarded on a sole-source basis , a move
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Wednesday with 54 more Starlink internet satellites, a mission to begin populating a new orbital shell authorized by federal regulators earlier this month for the company's Starlink Gen2 network. 
Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search Op-ed Hazards donâ t stop at the Kà rmà n line by Josef Koller and Carson Coursey December 26, 2022 A Falcon 9 lifts off Sept . 15 carrying a Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Inspiration4 private human spaceflight mission . Credit : Inspiration4 John Kraus More than 50 people are recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration for traveling to space and back on commercially licensed vehicles , and forecasts indicate the list will continue to grow . Remarkably , the United States lacks
. Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search Congress adds 1.7 billion for U.S . Space Force in 2023 spending bill by Sandra Erwin December 24, 2022 Space Force operational camouflage pattern utility uniform . Credit : U.S . Space Force The 2023 omnibus spending package includes 26.3 billion for the U.S . Space Force WASHINGTON â Congress in a massive 1.7 trillion government funding bill on Dec . 23 approved 797.7 billion for the Defense Department , or 69.3 billion more than DoD got in 2022. The consolidated funding bill
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Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search The Rest of 2022’s Notable Nine by Jeff Foust Sandra Erwin Jason Rainbow and Debra Werner December 23, 2022 Credit : SpaceNews illustration by B . Berger Ukraine and Elon Musk weren't the only big stories of 2022. These seven commanded our attention with actions that will reverberate well into 2023. JWST AND SLS Credit : SpaceNews illustration by B . Berger For most of the last decade , the James Webb Space Telescope and the Space Launch System were albatrosses around the neck of NASA 
Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search Investigation into Soyuz leak continues by Jeff Foust December 22, 2022 Video from the International Space Station late Dec . 14 showed coolant leaking out of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked there . The cause and severity of the leak remain under investigation . Credit : NASA TV WASHINGTON â As astronauts completed a delayed spacewalk outside the International Space Station , NASA and Roscosmos officials said they are continuing to study whether a Soyuz spacecraft that suffered a
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Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search Northrop Grumman clears key hurdle for space-based solar power by Debra Werner December 22, 2022 Artistâ s rendering of the Air Force Research Laboratoryâ s Arachne flight experiment on orbit . Credit : AFRL SAN FRANCISCO â Northrop Grumman has completed ground-based tests to demonstrate critical technology required for a 2025 demonstration of space-based solar . power âAs far as the technologies go , we’re very confident in our design and we’ve proven it out,â Tara Theret ,
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Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search Studies flag environmental impact of reentry by Leonard David December 22, 2022 Spacecraft reenters the Earthâ s atmosphere . Credit : The Aerospace Corporation Megaconstellations promise a steady flow of de-orbiting debris . Can the sky take it Space hardware tumbling out of orbit may lead to unforeseen environmental and climate impacts . Due to the growing scale and pace of launch activities , what is needed is better monitoring of the situation , as well as regulation to create anAnother roll-out solar array was installed and deployed by astronauts Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada outside the International Space Station on on a spacewalk Thursday, a day later than previously planned after the space station needed to dodge a piece of space junk. 
Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search China sets out clear and independent long-term vision for space by Andrew Jones December 22, 2022 Chinaâ s robotic circumlunar test flight in 2014 snapped this image of the moon with Earth in the distance . Credit : Chinese Academy of Sciences HELSINKI â Chinaâ s main space contractor is working towards making the country a leading space power with a focus on developing capabilities , space infrastructure and . self-reliance Wu Yansheng , chairman of China Aerospace Science and
. Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search Terran Orbital delivers 10 satellite buses to Lockheed Martin for U.S . military constellation by Sandra Erwin December 22, 2022 Terran Orbital is producing satellites buses for the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer of small satellites in low Earth orbit . Credit : Terran Orbital Lockheed Martin is buying buses from Terran Orbital for the Space Development Agencyâ s Transport Layer WASHINGTON â Terran Orbital announced Dec . 22 it has completed delivery of 10 satellite
Home News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored x close News Opinion Launch Civil Commercial Military Policy Politics Sponsored facebook twitter youtube rss feed About Advertise Magazine Subscription Info Newsletters Events Privacy Policy Reprints Newsletter Sign Up search Search Independent panel to investigate Vega C launch failure by Jeff Foust December 22, 2022 A Vega C lifted off Dec . 20, only to suffer a failure with its second stage about two and half minutes later . Credit : Arianespace webcast WASHINGTON â Arianespace and the European Space Agency will establish an independent commission to investigate the Vega C launch failure Dec . 20 that resulted in the loss of two satellites and new questions about the future of European space . accessDust-laden solar panels and darker Martian skies have finally sealed the fate of NASA’s InSight mission, the agency announced Wednesday, after the intrepid lander delivered its final message from Mars at the end of its history-making mission to reveal the secrets of the Red Planet’s interior. On December 20, Arianespace launched the 2nd ever flight of the Vega C class rocket. The rocket, anThe final two spacecraft in Airbus's four-satellite, 600 million-euro commercial Pléiades Neo Earth observation fleet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch from French Guiana Tuesday night, falling victim to a failure of a European Vega C rocket. Two Pléiades Neo Earth observation satellites are set to join Airbus's constellation of high-resolution optical imagers with a launch Tuesday night from French Guiana on the first commercial flight of Europe's Vega C rocket, a mission delayed from November to change out suspect hardware on the launcher's payload fairing. Russian managers are assessing whether a damaged Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station can safely carry its three-man crew back to Earth in late March as planned or whether a replacement must be launched to take its place, officials said Monday. 
Last week, the Soyuz capsule docked at the International Space Station sprung a coolant leak. The caRocket Lab said Saturday that the company received final approval from NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration to launch their first mission from the United States on Sunday, clearing final regulatory and technical hurdles with a new autonomous range safety destruct unit that delayed the launch more than two years. HAKUTO-R Mission 1, the commercial lander headed to the Moon, has accomplished more of the milestoneNASA provided an update on a leak detected on the Russian Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft. The leak was detec
Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were sch
December 11 saw the end of the Artemis I mission with the successful splashdown of the Orion CapsuleOn December 8, OneWeb confirmed the successful deployment of 40 of their satellites into Low Earth O
On December 5, NASA’s Orion spacecraft successfully completed a return powered flyby burn, whiOn November 16, Astrobotic, a company focused on commercial access to the lunar surface, announced t
On November 28, NASA announced that Artemis I had reached the farthest distance the spacecraft will
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On November 21 NASA announced that the CAPSTONE spacecraft had settled into its intended orbit aroun
In October 2022, NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann became the first enrolled female member of a Nati
On November 21 the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis I mission made its closest pass of the Moon, comi
On November 12 at 5:22 a.m. EST, the US Space Force’s uncrewed spaceplane successfully landed
At 1:47 a.m. EST, Artemis I achieved liftoff from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space C
On November 13, CAPSTONE completed its long journey to the Moon. The small satellite completed an inIntuitive Machines, a company set to send a commercial lander to the Moon, has been cleared by NASAOn November 3, Virgin Galactic and Axiom Space announced an agreement to partner for a mission that