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NASA updates Commercial Crew Flight Manifest to Space Station

Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)

Starliner Flight Date Targets NASA and Boeing now are targeting April 2023 for the agency's Crew Flight Test (CFT), the first flight with astronauts on the comp...

NASA Moon rocket launch delayed again, this time by storm

Nov 08, 2022 (AFP)

A launch attempt, which had been scheduled for November 14, will now take place on November 16, Jim Free, a senior official at the US space agency, said on Twit...

First geostationary navigation receiver from Beyond Gravity will be sent to orbit

Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)

Intelsat-40e is hosting NASA's climate payload called Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO). GEORIX will help TEMPO determine where it is in or...

One Cygnus solar array deployed so far

Nov 08, 2022 (SPX)

NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website will provide live coverage of the spacecraft's approach beginning at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9. Cygnus...

First manned flight of Boeing Starliner delayed until April

Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)

The US space agency wants to establish a second means of transport to the International Space Station (ISS) for its astronauts, with the SpaceX capsule already ...

Resupply mission for NASA carries scientific experiments to ISS

Nov 03, 2022 (SPX)

Here are details on some of the scientific investigations traveling to the space station on this mission: Bioprinting tissues The BioFabrication Facility (BFF) ...

Rice from space promises robust new varieties

Nov 03, 2022 (XNA)

Space breeding is a process in which seeds are exposed to cosmic radiation and microgravity during a space mission in order to mutate their genes and are return...

How scientist developed an intelligent fuzzy logical control to stabilize solar sail?

Nov 02, 2022 (SPX)

The remote distance between earth and solar sail also brings difficulties to the solar sail working in abominable space environment. All of the above problems r...

Arianespace and Space Machines sign MOU to study last-mile services

Nov 01, 2022 (SPX)

Arianespace works on several opportunities with customers looking for direct GEO injection or specific LEO/MEO orbits. In order to provide the best and most cos...

NASA Crew-4 astronauts safely splash down in Atlantic

Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)

NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti returned to Earth in a parachute...

Eagle-designed space drones target in-orbit construction

Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)

Dr. Hever Moncayo, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University associate professor of Aerospace Engineering, believes all of this is possible, and he's helping push th...

World's first space tourist plans new flight to Moon with SpaceX

Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)

The voyage will take place after Elon Musk's company has finished developing its prototype Starship rocket and has flown a first commercial flight that will inc...

Cables, tie-wraps and no step

Oct 11, 2022 (ESA)

These modules provide the spacecraft with propulsion, power and thermal control, and will supply astronauts with water and oxygen. The Orion spacecraft is compo...

Micro Meat and Orbital Assembly team up on space-based food production venture

Oct 07, 2022 (SPX)

Under the agreement, Micro Meat will install its proprietary meat production equipment aboard OA's Pioneer-classTM space station to provide food for space stati...

Australia seeks to grow plants on Moon by 2025

Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)

Plant biologist Brett Williams, from the Queensland University of Technology, said seeds would be carried by the Beresheet 2 spacecraft -- a private Israeli Moo...

US flies Russian cosmonaut to ISS as Ukraine conflict rages

Oct 06, 2022 (AFP)

The Crew Dragon spaceship "Endurance" blasted off Wednesday from Florida and rendezvoused with the orbiting research outpost some 30 hours later, docking at 5:0...

Amid Ukraine war, US flies Russian cosmonaut to ISS

Oct 05, 2022 (AFP)

Anna Kikina, the only female cosmonaut in service, is part of the Crew-5 mission, which also includes one Japanese and two American astronauts. "Let's do this,"...

Russia space agency seeking to extend ISS participation past 2024: official

Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)

Sergei Krikalev, head of Russia's human space flight programs, told reporters that Roscosmos had started "to discuss extending our participation in ISS program ...

Five things to know about the Nobel prizes

Sep 30, 2022 (AFP)

This winners of this year's prizes will be announced daily from Monday, October 3 through October 10. Here are five things to know about the prizes and their cr...

NASA awards commercial Small Satellite Data Acquisition Agreement

Sep 29, 2022 (SPX)

This is a fixed-price blanket purchase agreement and each call issued is not to exceed $7 million over a five-year period. The work will be performed at the con...