News & Map

Live: ASX set to rise as SpaceX AI revenue surges

SpaceX shares surge in after-hours trade as AI revenue rise more than ninefold. Follow the day's events and insights fro...

Eutelsat Signs New German Critical Infrastructure Deal

Eutelsat has made an interesting deal in the European Critical Infrastructure (CI) space. It has signed an expanded capa...

On this day in space! Oct. 20, 1970: The Soviet Union launches last-ever Zond moon mission

On Oct. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 8 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Here's why it mattered.

SpaceX’s data centre deals boost revenue by 161%

Elon Musk’s conglomerate spent more than $19bn on capital investments, more than Wall Street expected

Planet CSO Robbie Schingler Talks Sovereignty, Onboard AI, and the Launch Squeeze

Planet is on a growth streak in 2026, logging revenue growth and sovereign space wins, and opening a new factory in Germ...

Reflex Aerospace Secures Nvidia Investment 

Nvidia is making a minority investment into German satellite manufacturing startup Reflex Aerospace, announced this week...

Russian Satellite Raises Space Warfare Fears

Clayton Swope, deputy director of the CSIS Aerospace Security Project, said that we shouldn't look at movement in Space ...

Four Democratic Senators Ask SpaceX for Answers on Starshield Restrictions

Four Senate Democrats are seeking insights from SpaceX on the degradation of the company’s military Starshield system fo...

32 Payloads Catch a Ride on Morning SpaceX Bandwagon Mission 

SpaceX launched 32 payloads on a Bandwagon rideshare mission to mid-inclination orbit on Tuesday morning. This was the f...

Does anyone actually want to win the medium-lift race in the United States?

Ars Technica is here to help with a guide to the medium-lift space race.

Ukraine Hopes to Reconnect to Starlink in 48 Hours

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he spoke about intelligence sharing with US envoy Steve Witkoff during talks ...

NASA’s SR-1 Freedom Advances with Progress on Nuclear Power Module

Destined for Mars and beyond, NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom will be humanity’s first fission-powered spacecraft ...

Jeff Bezos is playing the long game with Blue Origin (op-ed)

If Blue Origin goes public, it will have to meet the expectations of shareholders. Jeff Bezos may therefore want to esta...

A supercomputer is about to launch to the moon for the 1st time, aboard a rover named FLIP

And yes, it has AI.

Launch Preview: H3, Falcon 9, Electron, and others to launch during busy week

Nine rockets are set to launch this week from California, Florida, New Zealand, Japan, and… The post Launch Preview: H3,...

Congress Seeks Answers On Starlink Disruptions in Ukraine

“The United States government has a fundamental obligation to protect American personnel serving overseas,” the senators...

NASA Experimental Mars Helicopter Blade Designs Target Longer Flights 

NASA researchers are developing the future of flight on Mars, laying the groundwork for helicopters with the ability to ...

NASA Provides Progress Update on Moon Base Rovers

As NASA works to build the Moon Base, crewed and robotic lunar rovers will play a crucial role during early development ...

NASA Welcomes Uzbekistan as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

The Republic of Uzbekistan became the 77th signatory of the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in Samarkand on Monday, co...

AnySignal to Deliver Space-to-Earth Communications for Three Reflect Orbital Missions

LOS ANGELES — October 20, 2026 AnySignal, a leading provider of software-defined radios and space-based networking, toda...

State Department Taps Trio for $5M Space Diplomacy Push

At last week’s second annual US Space Forum, the US Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna launched Projec...

Japan launches spacecraft to mysterious moons of Mars

A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on an unprecedented quest to explore its mysterious moons and brin...

Reaction Dynamics Targets 2031 for Borealis Medium-Lift Launch

In the contest to build up commercial launch capabilities in Canada, Quebec-based startup Reaction Dynamics has entered ...

US Navy Carrier Remote-Controls MQ-25A Stingray Over 2,100 Miles Away

Underway in the Pacific, USS Ronald Reagan remotely controlled an MQ-25A Stingray 2,100 miles away in Illinois via a pLE...

Is Russia stalking satellites which help Ukraine from space?

Analysts say a Russian craft’s close pass by a commercial radar satellite is a first and a warning to Kyiv’s backers.

Could a $200K bond for satellites paid before launch prevent a space junk disaster in orbit? Here's why some scientists think so

The space around Earth is turning into a junkyard. Researchers think a refundable deposit scheme could force satellite o...

Musk pledges SpaceX share giveaway to every US child

The announcement comes as tech firms seek to win over an increasingly skeptical public.

SpaceX launches its 'Starfall' return capsule for 2nd time ever

SpaceX launched its Starfall return capsule for the second time ever this morning (Oct. 20), sending it up on the Bandwa...

Zelenskyy says spoke to Rubio over Starlink, Starshield issues

Starshield, developed by tech titan Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is controlled and managed by the U.S. government; Ukraine also u...

French MPs propose symbolic €1 budget line for VORTEX spaceplane

French lawmakers have proposed allocating a symbolic €1 for Dassault Aviation’s VORTEX spaceplane programme in an effort...

Chinese air force reveals Y-20B tanker-transport variant in official training image

China’s military has published what appears to be the first official photograph of a Y-20B heavy transport aircraft in P...

NASA closes the book on epic OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission: 'I am immensely proud of what we did'

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission formally ended on Sept. 30, 2026, though scientists will continue to study t...

Why Starshield’s slowdown really hurts Ukraine

Reports that SpaceX temporarily restricted its satellite internet service for Ukraine’s armed forces have generated seri...

Japan launches mission to bring back samples from Mars’s moon Phobos

Japan’s H3 rocket launched the MMX probe on Tuesday, starting a three-year mission to collect samples from Phobos and st...

Near miss: Indonesia probes crash of suspected Chinese rocket fragment

The debris was found on Monday morning by a plantation worker in Indonesian Borneo, after residents reported hearing a l...

New brain for Galileo

Twelve Galileo Second Generation (G2) satellites will join the current fleet in the coming years. They will deliver unpr...

Indonesia investigates crash of suspected Chinese rocket fragment

Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency said the debris appeared to come from a Zhuque-2E rocket.

How Musk’s Starlink and US Spy Satellites Support Ukraine’s Defense

Ukraine’s defense against Russian attacks depends heavily on US satellites, not only for warning of incoming missiles bu...

Space entrepreneur made first million at 27, caps kids’ inheritance to 8 figures

Japan launches mission to bring home a piece of the Martian moon Phobos

The climax for MMX will come in 2029, when the spacecraft will attempt up to two landings on Phobos.