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The nuclear pledge that costs nothing – but would mean everything in law

Nuclear states have every reason to make a negative security assurance legally binding, yet none will act.

SpaceX rocket taxi returns after Roman Telescope launch | Space photo of the day for Sept. 8, 2026

The Roman Space Telescope launched beyond Earth on Aug. 30. And one of the most amazing parts of the liftoff was the Fal...

A small Thai satellite tests China’s next big space export

A Chinese cubesat launch for Thailand offers a case study in the contest over Southeast Asia’s potential US$100 billion ...

Passengers of arrested ship Professor Molchanov return to Russia from Spitsbergen

They are now en route to Murmansk

Stoke Space Raises $1B Initial Series E Round

Stoke Space Technologies announced today that it has closed an initial $1B tranche of a Series E round, bringing the com...

Chinese Ship Takes Arctic Shortcut: Smart Business? Or a Political Flex?

Melting ice is opening a trade route through the Arctic. China has begun the first regular service, part of its polar am...

Anak Krakatau eruption by Sentinel-3

Image: Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured a plume from the eruption of Anak Krakatau on Saturday, 5 September.

Hong Kong’s first astronaut to give live space lecture to students on Wednesday

First Hong Kong astronaut Lai Ka-ying will deliver a live lecture from space to students and teachers at her alma mater ...

In a league of her own: A Japanese F-15 pilot guarding the northern skies

Capt. Momoka Fujii, call sign "Jasmine," is one of a tiny minority of female pilots flying front-line combat jets in the...

Korean film financing in 'structural crisis,' 'Burning' director tells president

President Lee Jae Myung sat down with Korean directors, actors and industry executives in southern France Monday ahead o...

APOD: 2026 September 8 – Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn’s South Pole

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 8 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About D...

Launch Preview: Soyuz, CZ-8A, and Falcon 9 to launch from sites around the world

Five orbital launches are expected this week. Two Falcon 9s are expected to launch from… The post Launch Preview: Soyuz,...

German startup carries out Europe's first commercial space launch

German startup Isar Aerospace successfully launched its Spectrum rocket into orbit from Norway on Saturday night, markin...

BREAKING NEWS: Japan scrambles jets after China spy aircraft fly over East China Sea

BREAKING NEWS: Japan scrambles jets after China spy aircraft fly over East China Sea Read full story here

China’s WZ-X drone hints at an unmanned stealth bomber

China’s WZ-X points to a future in which stealth, endurance, surveillance and strike converge in a new class of unmanned...

Europe's space future in focus at the International Space Summit

The International Space Summit, taking place in Paris, France, on 9 and 10 September, will bring together world leaders,...

APOD: 2026 September 7 – The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 7 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education Abo...

A Bright Spot at Mount Michael

With austral winter nearing its end, clouds cleared for a satellite view of volcanic activity in the remote South Atlant...

Vietnam top leader departs for visits to Russia, France, attendance at Int'l Space Summit

Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam, his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegatio...

Data centers in space: Four big obstacles and Elon Musk's ambitious timeline

What’s Happening in Space Policy September 6-12, 2026

Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of September 6-12, 2026 and any insight we can ...

Starbase Infrastructure Advances Toward Flight 14

SpaceX is still building out assembly, test, and launch infrastructure at Starbase while Flight 14… The post Starbase In...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video)

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 6), sending them up from California's...

Cape neighbors Stoke and Relativity advance LC-14 and LC-16 toward first flights

Along Missile Row at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Stoke Space and Relativity Space are… The post Cape neighbors S...

What China’s Lop Nur desert base expansion means for PLA stealth jets in race with US

China is rapidly expanding a flight-test facility deep in its western desert, satellite imagery has revealed, a push tha...

German startup sends first commercial rocket into space from Europe

Isar Aerospace plans rapid expansion amid race to capitalise on expanding satellite-launch marketA German startup has la...

German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket

"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."

NASA expands Deep Space Network with giant new dish in California desert

The new antenna will boost capacity on NASA's increasingly strained deep-space communications network as Artemis and oth...

World’s most powerful lightning-chasing satellite joins China-Nepal flood relief efforts

China is using the world’s most powerful geostationary weather satellite to track severe thunderstorms over Nepal and de...

Turning dual-use technology into defense capability

What Japan now needs is an end-to-end implementation process that can transform dual-use technologies into operational c...

Isar Aerospace Completes First Successful Spectrum Flight

German launch services provider Isar Aerospace has completed the first successful launch of its Spectrum rocket, deployi...

German company launches rocket as Europe enters satellite race

Isar Aerospace says its 28-metre-long Spectrum rocket blasted off into space from Andøya spaceport in Arctic Norway.

German rocket reaches space as Europe enters satellite launch race

German start-up Isar Aerospace on Saturday launched its first rocket into space from a site in Arctic Norway, bringing E...

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Isar Aerospace achieves first launch to orbit from continental Europe

Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying to give live lecture from space

Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying and her two fellow Shenzhou-23 crew members will deliver a live lecture from spa...

Upcoming space summit to be worst Macron-organized event — media

According to Politico, the main issues are that the summit is running behind schedule, has not been coordinated with maj...

Watch Isar Aerospace try to make history today with launch from Norway

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket will attempt to become the first vehicle to reach orbit from European soil today (Sept....

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 226 — Who Owns The Moon?

On Episode 226 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Rainer Zitelmann to discuss the history...

China launches plan for 3D satellite network to monitor sun and cosmic explosions

China has started an international project to build a three-dimensional satellite network between Earth and the moon tha...