Space News for Monday, August 04, 2025

Vaya Space selected for $1.2 million AFWERX Phase II contract to advance hypersonic propulsion – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-08-04 00:00 Vaya Space has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Phase II in the amount of $1,236,406. The program will focus on the development of the ...

Space News for Tuesday, July 29, 2025

NASA and ISRO’s joint project, NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite set to launch from India on Wednesday – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-07-28 00:00 NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, or NISAR satellite, will use advanced radar imaging to map the elevation of Earth’s ...

Space News for Tuesday, June 04, 2024

Chang’e-6: Moon samples collected and launched into lunar orbit Original Publication Date: 2024-06-04 07:57 China's Chang’e-6 mission ascent vehicle lifted off from atop the mission lander in Apollo crater at 7:38 p.m. Eastern June 3. The ascent vehicle lifted off and achieved autonomous ...

Space News for Friday, April 07, 2023

NOAA seeks funding increases for next-generation satellite programs Original Publication Date: 2023-04-06 23:08 NOAA requests $417.4 million for next-generation geostationary weather satellites. That program received $285 million in the fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending bill. The agency is also ...

Space News for Monday, January 16, 2023

SpaceX launches U.S. Space Force’s first mission of 2023 on Falcon Heavy Original Publication Date: 2023-01-15 23:18 USSF-67 was Falcon Heavy's second national security space launch. Both side boosters landed back at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2. The primary payload was the U.S. Space Force’s ...

Space News for Monday, December 05, 2022

U.S. Space Force chief: The use of space technology in Ukraine ‘is what we can expect in the future’ Original Publication Date: 2022-12-04 16:41 Gen. Chance Saltzman is chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force. He says the value of space “has been proven out,” and space is “clearly a ...