B2Space Tests Balloon-Based Launch System
Credit: B2Space Welsh launch services startup B2Space has completed a key test of its rockoon launch system, which…
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on its 150th Falcon 9 mission of the year
SpaceX reached another milestone with the launch of 29 more Starlink satellites for its broadband internet low Earth…
“It’s perfect for life” — NASA searches for signs in the Solar System, but not on any planet
For the past decade, the idea of another planetary habitation has continued to make headlines. When NASA or…
Space Race With China Drives Antenna-Building Boom in Arctic
The Canadian government’s Inuvik Satellite Station Facility in the Northwest Territories. (Bloomberg) — Satellite operators are looking north. Way north.…
Iran to build payload to measure lunar electric potential for China project: Space agency head
The file photo shows a view of Moon limb with Earth rising on the horizon.
The Iranian…
China’s Shenzhou 20 debris crisis: a catalyst for space war – or peace?
A tiny piece of debris triggered the most serious mishap at China’s Tiangong space station since it became…
Finland’s Iceye secures Japanese contract as it advances international expansion, new satellite ranges
WARSAW, Poland — Finnish SAR constellation operator Iceye and Japan’s aerospace and defense company IHI Corporation recently signed…
‘We were genuinely astonished’: This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth
This little plant is a lot tougher than it looks. Researchers exposed moss spores to the harsh environment…
Elon Musk’s Starlink is rewiring the world — but at what cost?
When Alex Leiserach and his wife moved from Lancing in West Sussex to a farmhouse in the Lincolnshire…
Earth from Space: The Danakil Depression
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over one of Earth’s most extreme environments: the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia.…
Scientists detect a magnetic switchback near Earth for the first time
A NASA fleet has spotted the first magnetic switchback near Earth, a zigzag in the magnetic field at…
First launch from SaxaVord postponed until next year
THE FIRST vertical rocket launch from the SaxaVord Spaceport has been delayed until next year, Shetland News can…