China faces temporary emergency...
HELSINKI - China could be without emergency launch capability to Tiangong space station for months, leaving no rapid-response option for any new crisis following the Shenzhou-20 incident.The ...
Castelion raises $350 million to...
WASHINGTON - Castelion, a defense technology startup led by former SpaceX engineers, announced Dec. 5 it raised $350 million in Series B financing to accelerate high-volume production of hypersonic ...
Crew Swaps Commanders on Sunday as...
Expedition 73 will swap commanders this weekend before three crew members return to Earth on Monday. Expedition 74 officially begins once the home bound trio undocks from the Rassvet module inside ...
Northrop Grumman continues solid...
WASHINGTON - Northrop Grumman tested a solid rocket motor Dec. 4 as part of an internal program to advance solid rocket propulsion technologies.The company conducted a static-fire test of a motor ...
Mobile networks want to use the...
At next year's World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-25), governments will face a choice that goes to the heart of how we monitor our warming planet. Some regulators are wondering whether to open ...
Surprisingly, this space economy isnt...
Projections for the booming space economy often come with trillion-dollar headlines, but the lion's share of near-term revenue looks destined for just a handful of massive constellations with the ...
Earth from Space: Singing dunes and...
This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution.With an area of about 49 000 sq km, Badain Jaran ...
Roscosmos replaces cosmonaut on next...
WASHINGTON - Roscosmos has replaced a cosmonaut assigned to the next Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station for reasons neither it nor NASA will disclose.Roscosmos announced Dec. 2 ...
The overlooked space race: keeping...
China's lunar ambitions grab attention, but a quieter milestone that the country achieved earlier this year could have longer-term implications for how nations operate in orbit. In mid-2025, China ...
How Starlinks explosive growth is...
SpaceX has transformed the launch industry, but its impact on global communications may prove even more consequential. The second part of our free Understanding the SpaceX-Era Economy report series ...
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