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The payload is a NASA-funded plate-shaped satellite designed by Aerospace Corp. as a possible alternative to the cubesat The post Rocket Lab wins $14.4 million contract to launch Space Test Program experiment appeared fi...

Troy Meink: 'We are pushing the boundaries to ensure we stay on the leading edge of innovation' The post NRO eyes diverse satellite fleet and AI-powered ground systems in modernization push appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has been in studying the Sun for the last six years. In 2021 it was hit directly by a coronal mass ejection when it was a mere 10 million kilometres from the solar surface. Luckily it was gather...

After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA's DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, on April 1. The...

The Planet Insights Platform is designed to help government and commercial customers rapidly analyze, stream and distribute data. The post Planet unveils platform to merge data with analytics appeared first on SpaceNews.

Russian space officials on Tuesday aborted the test launch of a new heavy-lift rocket from its far-eastern launch pad.

Galactic collisions, meteor impacts and even stellar mergers are not uncommon events. neutron stars colliding with black holes however are a little more rare, in fact, until now, we have never observed one. The fourth LI...

A total solar eclipse swept across North America yesterday, blocking out the sun momentarily with parts of the continent plunged into darkness. Geostationary satellites orbiting 36,000 km away captured images of the rare...

It has often been likened to talcum powder. The ultra fine lunar surface material known as the regolith is crushed volcanic rock. For visitors to the surface of the moon it can be a health hazard, causing wear and tear o...

Sometimes, the easy calculations are the most interesting. A recent paper from Balázs Bradák of Kobe University in Japan is a case in point. In it, he takes an admittedly simplistic approach but comes up with seven kno...

After spending six-and-a-half-months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara will participate in a news conference at 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday, April 15, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in H...

The total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, is over, meaning we can now marvel at the incredible videos and images taken during the event.

The service has seen steady growth "as more people are realizing what space brings to the fight" The post Space Force budget inches upward in tight fiscal year appeared first on SpaceNews.

U.S. Space Command is focused on making its constellations more resilient, defending them against a growing array of threats, protecting the joint force from space-enabled attack, and conducting extensive tests and train...

After a year planning the perfect proposal for the April 8 solar eclipse, it couldn't have gone better.

The liftoff of the last-ever Delta rocket today (April 9) brought with it a change in the way the U.S. sends satellites, interplanetary probes and spacecraft into Earth orbit.

ULA's Delta 4 Heavy launches NROL-70 for the National Reconnaissance Office in its final mission The post End of an era: Delta 4 Heavy soars one last time appeared first on SpaceNews.

You’ve likely heard of the Breakthrough Starshot (BTS) initiative. BTS aims to send tiny gram-scale, light sail picospacecraft to our neighbour, Proxima Centauri B. In BTS’s scheme, lasers would propel a whole fleet ...

Life on Earth depends on six critical elements: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and sulfur. These elements are referred to as CHNOPS, and along with several trace micronutrients and liquid water, they're...

Missions to asteroids have been on a tear recently. Visits by Rosetta, Osirix-REX, and Hayabusa2 have all visited small bodies and, in some cases, successfully returned samples to the Earth. But as humanity starts reachi...

To address a rapidly changing space operating environment and ensure its preservation for generations to come, NASA released the first part of its integrated Space Sustainability Strategy, on Tuesday advancing the agency...

On April 8, 2024, a NASA photographer captured the total solar eclipse in Dallas. A small part of North America, from Mexico's Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada, saw the total solar eclipse, whi...