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 ...

Angola signs Artemis Accords Original Publication Date: 2023-12-01 23:44 Angola is the third African nation to sign the Artemis Accords. The accords outline best practices for space exploration. The signing took place during the visit of Angola’s president to the White House. Thirty-three ...

Industry group opposes White House mission authorization proposal Original Publication Date: 2023-11-28 23:51 Industry group says it is opposed to a White House proposal for regulating novel space activities. The proposal would split responsibilities for commercial space activities between two ...

China’s Landspace aims to build a stainless steel rocket Original Publication Date: 2023-11-22 23:08 Chinese launch startup Landspace has unveiled plans to develop a reusable stainless steel rocket. The Zhuque-3 (Vermillion Bird 3) will use stainless propellant tanks and clusters of Tianque ...

ULA gearing up for first Vulcan launch Original Publication Date: 2023-11-17 05:39 All major components for the first Vulcan Centaur rocket are now at the launch site. United Launch Alliance prepares for a launch in late December. The primary payload for Cert-1 is Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar ...

Starlink and SES join forces for multi-orbit cruise connectivity Original Publication Date: 2023-09-13 06:50 SES and SpaceX are pooling their broadband satellites to offer cruise operators an integrated service. The SES Cruise mPowered + Starlink service would mostly use SpaceX’s low Earth ...

Chandrayaan-3 success to boost India’s space ambitions, global standing Original Publication Date: 2023-09-05 23:41 Chandrayaan-3 landed on the moon on Aug. 23. Indian space agency ISRO put the lander into sleep mode late Sept. 3. ISRO has not announced any formal plans for sample return or ...

Technical problem postpones final Ariane 5 launch Original Publication Date: 2023-06-15 23:35 Arianespace postpones the 117 th and final launch of the Ariane 5. The launch had been scheduled for June 16 from Kourou, French Guiana. X-ray inspections raised doubts about three lines on the ...

FCC adopts revised NGSO spectrum-sharing rules Original Publication Date: 2023-04-21 01:57 The FCC adopted new rules April 20 governing how fixed-satellite service operators share spectrum. Operators awarded licenses in different FCC application processing rounds must avoid interfering with ...

ULA’s Atlas 5 launches U.S. Space Force experimental missile-warning satellite Original Publication Date: 2022-07-01 23:41 The rocket lifted off at 7:15 p.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral. The $1.1 billion USSF-12 mission to geosynchronous Earth orbit carried two ...