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Musk pledges SpaceX shares to every US child in potential $10.7bn giveaway

Elon Musk says he will give one SpaceX share to every child in America next year, a pledge worth about $10.7bn (€9.5bn) ...

A Chinese rocket deorbited over Minnesota and left this in a farmer's cornfield

All the evidence points to the debris being part of a Chinese Zhuque-2E rocket.

Elephant Island is an icy sight from orbit | Space photo of the day for Oct. 19, 2026

The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite mission captured a close-up of West Antarctica from its perc...

PLD Space begins system-level testing of Miura 5 as first three vehicles take shape

PLD Space has entered a new phase ahead of the first demonstration flight of its… The post PLD Space begins system-level...

Exclusive: EraDrive Lands $13M DoD Award For Autonomy Module

EraDrive won a $13M DoD award, under which the Space Force will buy an undisclosed number of the company’s Era-Node visi...

WarpWare Closes Pre-Seed to Bring Agentic Tools to Flight Software

For spacecraft software teams, every new program can feel like Groundhog Day. CO-based WarpWare closed its $1.2M pre-see...

Q-KON and SISTEC Launch Sovereign Satellite Point of Presence in Angola

African satellite engineering provider Q-KON, in partnership with Angolan ICT company SISTEC and Eutelsat OneWeb, has la...

Flying under the radar: Russia's tacit reliance on Chinese SAR satellites (part 2)

Russian companies have turned to China for radar-imaging satellites and imagery from such satellites. Bart Hendrickx ide...

The commercial space station competition finally begins

After some contracting twists and turns, NASA released the final request for proposals earlier this month for commercial...

Kenya Advances Space Cooperation Through Industry Engagements in China

The Kenya Space Agency (KSA) has concluded a series of engagements with Chinese space companies and institutions, explor...

The ghost beneath the shuttle Columbia: Kosmos 398, STS-73, and the last echo of the US/Soviet Moon race

More than 30 years ago, a shuttle orbiter had a fleeting encounter with a relic of the original Moon race. Robert Kelso ...

A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a payload container: the curious case of Defense Support Program Satellite F-11

The last of the Defense Support Program satellites were recently retired by the Space Force, but the program still has m...

The surprising case for space mining

There is renewed interest in mining asteroids or the Moon for resources ranging from water ice to precious metals. Alex ...

Polish satellite maker Creotech Instruments plans tenfold capacity boost by 2029

CEO Grzegorz Brona warned that Europe could remain reliant on US rockets to launch its satellites into orbit for years.

GGPEN and Portugal’s GEOSAT Sign Letter of Intent on EO and Geospatial Applications

The National Space Program Management Office (GGPEN), the agency overseen by Angola’s Ministry of Telecommunications, In...

China Is a Peer Competitor in a Dangerous Space Race

Washington needs to take the realities of Chinese advances seriously.

EUMETSAT Completes 56-Station Network as African Forecasters Put MTG Data into Operational Use

National meteorological services across Africa can now receive data from EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) sate...

Musk says will give SpaceX share to 'every kid in America'

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday that he would give every child in the United States a share in his SpaceX rock...

Paratus Zambia Connects 18 Family Legacy Schools to Starlink

Over 10,000 children across 18 Family Legacy schools in Lusaka now have access to stable, high-speed internet after Para...

Eutelsat Renews Strategic Partnership with Télédiffusion d’Algérie for TV Distribution Across MENA

Eutelsat has announced the renewal of its strategic partnership with Télédiffusion d’Algérie (TDA), Algeria’s national b...

Japan launching bold sample-return mission to Mars moon Phobos today: Watch it live

Japan will launch its audacious MMX sample-return mission to Mars today (Oct. 19), and you can watch the historic action...

Japan leads mission to make first return trip to Mars

Voyage due to launch early Tuesday morning Japan time will be watched for further potential signs of life on red planet

Japan prepares historic Mars mission

A bruising battle awaits Musk and SpaceX in mobile services

Falcon 9 set to launch Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida

Following on from the successful Transporter 18 mission at the beginning of the month, SpaceX’s… The post Falcon 9 set t...

What’s Happening in Space Policy October 18-24, 2026

Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of October 18-24, 2026 and any insight we can o...

Morning Mail: Rape alleged in WA youth detention; rightwing lobby’s ‘bizarre’ campaign; and Japan’s moon mission

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Returning samples from a Mars moon: Inside the science of Japan's bold MMX mission

Japan's mission to Mars' moons could answer a decades old question dividing the origins of Phobos and Deimos between two...

Ukraine and the U.S. are at odds over Starshield. Here's what to know

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he believes the U.S. government is behind his military's loss of normal...

How Starlink gave Ukraine a ‘middle strike’ advantage that is now at risk

How are Ukraine’s drones disrupting Russian supply lines — and can Ukraine hold on to its advantage? Flying far behind e...

SpaceX working through Starship Flight 15 and 16 milestones

SpaceX is advancing toward its next two Starship missions as the company looks to close… The post SpaceX working through...

US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions

Ambassador Andrew Puzder warns about ‘devastating’ retaliation if Brussels goes ahead with plans to limit spectrum acces...

Pakistan plans Moon landing by 2035, expands space cooperation with China

Pakistan aims to land on the Moon by 2035 and send its first astronaut for a space mission. The astronaut, selected from...

Who capped Starlink in Ukraine? Musk, Trump and Rubio give three different answers

Ukraine says speed limits on Starlink are still hampering military efforts to fight off Russian drones, days after a sur...

Bessent warns Zelenskyy to 'be very careful' about claims U.S. is throttling Starlink

Starlink, high-speed satellite internet provided by Elon Musk's SpaceX, is critical to Ukraine's defense.

Starshield Dispute Exposes US Ukraine Divide

Bloomberg News National Security Team Leader Wendy Benjaminson tells Bloomberg This Weekend that Ukraine uses SpaceX’s S...

Lithuania foils arson attack on Starlink equipment, suspects Russian involvement

The attackers attempted to set fire to satellite antennas and a control unit, Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius said.

South Africa Appoints New Interim Board for SANSA

South Africa’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Blade Nzimande, has appointed an interim board ...

Ukraine Strikes Russian Oil Terminal, as Starshield Disruptions Persist

Ukrainian officials said the Pentagon and SpaceX have not yet responded to inquiries about disruptions to the U.S.-provi...

Japan readies Martian moon mission to uncover origins of life

Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars’s moons to retrieve samples that could help unlock the origins of the...