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There's a 70% chance that the weather will be good enough to allow another batch of SpaceX's Starlink satellites to get off the ground from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Italy's D-Orbit said Aug. 9 that it would launch 20 nanosatellites over three years for Swiss startup Astrocast with its orbital transfer vehicle. The post D-Orbit to deploy 20 Astrocast satellites over three years appea...

Maxar Technologies announced Aug. 9 it was selected by L3Harris to manufacture 14 missile-detection satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency. The post Maxar to supply 14 satellites for U.S. military missile-track...

Watch the last supermoon of the year rise over Rome with the Virtual Telescope Project's free livestream, which starts on Aug. 12 at 1:30 a.m. ET.

SpaceX, whose rideshare services have reshaped the smallsat launch market, says it continues to see strong demand with missions booked into 2025. The post SpaceX sees continued strong demand for rideshare missions appear...

Other seasons of sci-fi shows come and go, but 'The Orville' will almost certainly be missed the most.

Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket is about to get an all-American upgrade with the help of Firefly Aerospace.

Six of NASA's SunRISE small satellites will work together, creating the largest radio telescope ever launched to detect and track hazardous explosive space weather events.

Today (Aug. 9), President Joe Biden signed into law the CHIPS Act, which includes a NASA authorization bill -- the first one to pass Congress in five years.

The peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower shares the sky with August's full moon this week, meaning it will be difficult to view the iconic shooting stars.

Telespazio is beginning to offer a family of products to help commercial space companies set up a digitized ground segment in the cloud. The post Telespazio unveils product line for NewSpace market appeared first on Spac...

Scientists using sophisticated computational chemistry techniques have identified a new pathway for how sulfur particles can form in the atmosphere of Venus. These results may help to understand the long sought-after ide...

Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids, and the unfiltered glare of the sun. In addition, materials and equipment on the outside of the Internatio...

Sidus Space could launch LizzieSat-1 without thrusters if it can't get safety clearances in time to deploy its first satellite from the International Space Station early next year. The post Sidus Space could launch Lizzi...

A politician who helped save the Hubble Space Telescope has now donated her space souvenirs to the operations center that runs the observatory, the Space Telescope Science Institute.

The SpaceNews editorial team is producing a daily for the 2022 Small Satellite show, a nightly email newsletter and all-day web coverage during the 2022 Small Satellite show in Logan, Utah the week of August 9. The post ...

Small satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital reported increased revenues Aug. 9 as it ramps up work on satellites for the Space Development Agency, but is planning to sell stock as its cash reserves decline. The post Terr...

NASA is asking people to share their "moon snaps" to celebrate Artemis 1, which is scheduled to launch on an uncrewed mission around the moon no earlier than Aug. 29.

Debris from a Russian antisatellite weapon demonstration that caused "squalls" of close approaches to satellites earlier this year is now affecting a new series of Starlink satellites. The post Starlink satellites encoun...

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and partners at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have made the first-ever detection of gas in an circumplanetary disk. What's more, ...

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