Senate appropriators say spending bill includes NASA increase Original Publication Date: 2024-07-22 09:11 Senate Appropriations Committee to mark up spending bill on July 25. Leaders say they will increase NASA's budget and protect Artemis lunar exploration campaign. Senators did not describe ...

South Korea’s new space agency outlines plans Original Publication Date: 2024-07-21 02:19 South Korea's new space agency lays out ambitious goals in spaceflight. KASA has long-term goals of sending a robotic lander to the moon in 2032. KASA plans both the lunar and Martian landers as well as a ...

ESA supports work on Apophis mission Original Publication Date: 2024-07-20 01:10 European Space Agency will allow a proposed mission to the asteroid Apophis to proceed. Ramses is designed to visit Apophis before that asteroid makes a very close flyby of Earth in 2029. ESA members will decide on ...

Astra completes deal to go private Original Publication Date: 2024-07-19 08:32 Astra Space has completed a deal to take the company private at 50 cents per share. The agreement ends Astra’s time as a publicly traded company a little more than three years. Astra went public through a merger with ...

Firefly CEO leaves company Original Publication Date: 2024-07-18 09:05 Bill Weber was no longer the chief executive of the launch vehicle and lunar lander company. The company did not disclose the reason for his departure and whether Weber resigned or was fired. Weber took over as CEO in ...

Second SLS core stage ready to ship to Florida Original Publication Date: 2024-07-17 05:45 The second core stage for the Space Launch System rocket was rolled out July 16. The stage will go to Florida for the Artemis 2 mission next year. The stage, while largely complete, will undergo some ...

China reschedules planetary defense mission for 2027 launch Original Publication Date: 2024-07-16 07:42 China has changed the launch date and target for a mission that will attempt to deflect the orbit of an asteroid. The target for the mission will be the asteroid 2015 XF261, a body estimated ...

ESCAPADE on schedule for launch this fall Original Publication Date: 2024-07-15 05:09 ESCAPADE features two identical smallsats, called Blue and Gold, that will go into orbit around Mars. The spacecraft carry instruments to study the planet’s magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar ...

Starlink satellites lost on Falcon 9 upper stage failure Original Publication Date: 2024-07-12 22:50 SpaceX says it will not be able to recover the 20 Starlink satellites left in a very low orbit. The rocket’s upper stage engine “experienced an anomaly and was unable to complete its second ...

Falcon 9 suffers upper stage engine failure Original Publication Date: 2024-07-12 05:41 The Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 10:35 p.m. Eastern. The rocket was carrying 20 Starlink satellites, 13 of which with direct-to-cell payloads. The rocket’s ascent to ...