Turkish graduates build green thrusters for satellites
ISTANBUL ITU graduates Mustafa Ay and Hıdır İlyas Sezer developed an eco-friendly thruster for satellites. Stepping away from…
Rocket Lab (RKLB) Expands Launch Infrastructure To Support More Frequent Missions
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In February 1985, the Soviet space station Salyut 7 went silent and began tumbling with dead batteries, frozen instruments and frost covering its windows; four months later, two cosmonauts docked with the powerless 20-tonne station by hand, entered wearing gas masks and brought it back to life with flashlights and improvised wiring
In February 1985 the Soviet space station Salyut 7 stopped answering. The station was empty at the time,…
In 2020 NASA installed a new female-friendly toilet on the International Space Station at a cost of about $23 million. The redesign was the first space toilet built specifically to work well for female as well as male astronauts, and 65 percent smaller and 40 percent lighter than the existing station toilet
$23 million is a big price tag for a toilet even if that figure covers two units, one…
NASA’s James Webb catches a supermassive black hole feeding
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, are giving astronomers their clearest look yet at…
SpaceX (SPCX) Is Down 14.7% After Starship Abort and Rising Scrutiny of Its Lofty Valuation
In mid-July 2026, SpaceX’s highly anticipated 13th Starship test flight was automatically aborted seconds before liftoff due to…
SDA’s Third Tranche 1 Mission – SpaceX
SDA’s Third Tranche 1 Mission SpaceXYork Space Readies 21 Satellites for US Space Development Agency Launch The Defense PostOn July…
Axelspace Released First Images Captured by GRUS-3 Earth Observation Microsatellites
Commercial operations targeted to begin within 2026 Axelspace Corporation (“Axelspace”), a leading developer and operator of microsatellites dedicated…
APOD: 2026 July 17 – The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2
APOD: 2026 July 17 – The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2 Discover the cosmos! Each day a…
‘It’s beautiful’: Astronomers find atmosphere on a nearby Earth-like planet – The Irish Times
There are a few key features that make a planet amenable to life, at least life as earthlings…
In Renens, Switzerland, a company called SWISSto12 is building geostationary satellites the size of an industrial washing machine and a fifth the mass of the multi-ton spacecraft they replace, and this week it raised $70 million on a bet that governments would rather own one outright than lease capacity on someone else’s constellation
The HummingSat is a geostationary communications satellite roughly the size of an industrial washing machine, and it weighs…
FCC Approves First Launch for Space Reflector Constellation
Reflect Orbital moves ahead with the company’s first Eärendil launch, ahead of concerns from the astronomical community. Move…