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June 10 morning’s weather was nice enough on the Space Coast for one of two planned launches, but high winds at a potential abort site forced the human spaceflight plans of Axiom Space and SpaceX […]

The African Space Agency was officially inaugurated in Cairo’s Space City in April 2025. The event marked a milestone in a process that had been in the works since the early 2000s. Drawing inspiration from […]

Getting to Mars takes a really long time, about nine months using today’s rocket technology. This is because regular rocket engines burn fuel and oxygen together (like a car engine), but they’re not very efficient. […]

Just when we thought we’d learned from the past, humanity is preparing to repeat its most destructive habits—this time, in space.This post was originally published on this site

The international space industry is on a growth trajectory, but new research shows a rapid increase in rocket launches would damage the ozone layer.This post was originally published on this site

As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated to the point of Musk threatening to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, NASA revealed even more delays to Dragon’s alternative, Boeing’s Starliner.This post was originally […]

A trio of heliophysicists and satellite trackers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute at the University of Maryland has found evidence showing that Starlink satellites reenter Earth’s atmosphere faster […]

ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski is heading to the International Space Station on his first mission as part of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4). He is the second ESA project astronaut from a new generation of […]

When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human body, fruit flies are the heavyweights of experiments in weightlessness. Because humans and fruit flies share a lot […]

The core portion of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully completed vibration testing, ensuring it will withstand the extreme shaking experienced during launch. Passing this key milestone brings Roman one step closer to […]