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Lee urge ‘significant’ rocket launch investment boost for national security

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday called for a “significant expansion” of investment in rocket and satelli...

Japan launches unprecedented mission to bring back samples from Mars’ moon phobos

NASA has landed nine spacecraft on Mars over the past 50 years, and China touched down in 2021, but no one has ever vent...

Japan launches historic mission to bring back Mars moon samples

Japan has launched a five-year uncrewed mission to collect samples from Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons.

“Earth Satellites and Foreign Policy”

The advent of a new technology invariably comes with strategic implications, raising the question of who will benefit an...

SA remains committed to sending Australian of the Year to space

South Australia will still support a proposed mission to send European-trained astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg to the I...

Zelenskyy seeks answers to why SpaceX Starshield defence is failing

Zelenskyy seeks answers to why SpaceX Starshield defence is failing

Japan launches mission to explore Mars' moons and bring back samples

Japan launched a spacecraft on Tuesday on a five-year mission to explore Mars' mysterious moons, Phobos and Deimos, and ...

JAXA’s MMX Enroute to Mars To Return Samples of Phobos

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launch the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission this afternoon ED...

Starshield restrictions disrupt Ukraine’s drone operations 烏克蘭無人機突遭「星盾」斷網　美國掌控權引發疑慮

Japan successfully launches probe in historic Mars moon mission

The aim of the mission is to reveal how Mars and its two moons formed, in a bid to work out how the solar system was bor...

Japan successfully launches probe on world's 1st Martian moon sample mission

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on Tuesday said it successfully launched a spacecraft on the world's first missio...

Japan launches MMX probe to become first to collect soil samples from Mars’ moon Phobos

The spacecraft is expected to return to Earth in 2031

BREAKING NEWS: Japan successfully launches probe in Martian moon mission: space agency

BREAKING NEWS: Japan successfully launches probe in Martian moon mission: space agency Read full story here

Japan successfully launches probe in historic Mars moon mission

The flagship H3 rocket carrying the unmanned Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) probe blasted off into a pitch black sky fr...

Japan launches first mission to collect samples from Martian moon

An international space mission aiming to collect sand and rock from one of Mars's moons is expected to land in Australia...

Russian satellite stalked ICEYE spacecraft in potentially dangerous on-orbit maneuvers

The Cosmos 2612 came within 500 meters (about a third of a mile) to US-flagged ICEYE-X36 believed to be supporting Ukrai...

Russian satellite stalked ICEYE spacecraft in potentially dangerous on-orbit maneuvers

The Cosmos 2612 came within 500 meters (about a third of a mile) to US-flagged ICEYE-X36 believed to be supporting Ukrai...

Russian spacecraft maneuvers in "extreme proximity" to satellite used by Ukraine

"Kosmos 2612 closed from hundreds of kilometers away to extreme proximity to ICEYE-X36."

OHB Wins ESA Study Deal for Lunar Infrastructure

OHB has won a new lunar infrastructure deal from the European Space Agency (ESA). Its subsidiary, OHB System AG, has won...

Japan launches mission to Mars to bring back samples from its moon

Japan launched a spacecraft towards Mars in a ground-breaking mission to bring back samples from the largest of the plan...

Japan launches probe in historic bid to collect sample from Mars moon

The five-year mission — the first to attempt to land on a Martian moon — could shed light on the origins of the solar sy...

Japan launches historic MMX sample-return mission to Mars' moon Phobos (video)

Japan just launched an epic mission to Mars' moons that could make history as the first spacecraft to return to Earth fr...

SpaceX earnings will be all about AI — for better or for worse

SpaceX has been renting out access to computing power, which is a big source of revenue growth but also one that comes a...

Mission blasts off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon

A spacecraft is set to launch on an ambitious mission to bring 10g of Martian moon dust back to Earth.

FCC Authorizes Globalstar’s C-3 Constellation for Direct-to-Device

The FCC has granted Globalstar authority to operate its third-generation satellite constellation, referred to as the C-3...

On this day in space! Oct. 19, 2016: Europe's ExoMars orbiter and Schiaparelli lander arrive at Mars

On Oct. 19, 2016, the European Space Agency's ExoMars orbiter and Schiaparelli arrived at Mars! Here's why it mattered.

Russian Satellite Maneuvered Within ‘Extreme Proximity’ of Iceye Satellite, LeoLabs Reports

Over the last few days, a Russian satellite deliberately maneuvered within “extreme proximity” of an Iceye satellite, ac...

China next-gen solar tech curb to impact SpaceX AI computing plan

Beijing has proposed banning exports of the technology used to make next-generation solar cells, a move that could compl...

European MNOs Team Up for MSS D2D Spectrum in Europe

Four of Europe’s top mobile network operators confirmed they are working together on a plan for mobile satellite service...

NASA Improves Shock, Vibration Analysis

Rockets vibrate, shake, and flex intensely as they climb into space, and spacecraft packed with delicate scientific inst...

Zelensky says Starshield speed limits slowing down frontline response

Speed limits on a US military grade satellite system are hindering Ukrainian forces' ability to coordinate drone strikes...

Experimental Facilities

Research teams at the NASA Glenn Research Center perform experiments in world-class facilities such as the 9- by 15-Foot...

NASA’s Simulated Mars Crew Marks One Year Inside Habitat 

The four crew members in NASA’s simulated Mars mission have spent the past year living and working in isolation in a con...

SpaceX stock made billions for college endowments. But their luck is about to run out.

Outsized positions have made many higher-education endowments less diversified and more at risk when shares slide

UARX Space troubleshoots anomalies on maiden OTV Flight

SAN FRANCISCO –Spanish startup UARX Space is remedying anomalies identified during the maiden flight of OSSIE-D, an orbi...

Martian Dawn

NASA’s Curiosity captures the dawn on Mars – as well as elongated ridges formed by wind erosion, or yardangs – in this c...

Fire at Starlink Center in Lithuania Was Sabotage, Officials Say

The fire, which did not seriously damage the network, came after similar incidents in Bulgaria and Poland involving the ...

Japanese MMX mission set for launch to study Martian moons

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is poised to launch a planetary probe to Mars’s… The post Japanese MMX ...

'They're kind of goth': NASA spacecraft gives mysterious brown dwarfs a close-up

Using NASA’s SPHEREx spacecraft, astronomers have studied a horde of mysterious "failed stars," or brown dwarfs, not-so-...

US political uncertainty complicates long-term Artemis commitments, Polish minister says

Political and budgetary uncertainty in the United States poses a risk to long-term planning for space exploration progra...