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Voyager 1 Loses Another Instrument As Power Margins Shrink Across Interstellar Space
Apr 29, 2026 (SPX)
The LECP had been running almost continuously since Voyager 1 lifted off in 1977, a stretch of nearly 49 years. The instrument measured low-energy charged parti...
China's First Commercial Space Standards Aim To Cut Costs and Unify Industry
Apr 26, 2026 (SPX)
Until now, rocket and satellite manufacturers each operated under their own technical rules, making coordination along the supply chain inefficient. The new sta...
Nine European Students Complete Six-Day Simulated Mars Mission in Portugal
Apr 23, 2026 (SPX)
The students lived, worked, and explored as if they were on Mars, operating rovers, conducting scientific experiments, and solving real challenges without any o...
Full scale Space Rider test craft set for parafoil glide trials
Apr 22, 2026 (SPX)
Space Rider is designed as an uncrewed reusable spacecraft that will operate in low Earth orbit for about two months at a time. Its cargo bay is intended to sup...
Meet the four astronauts set to voyage around the Moon
Apr 01, 2026 (AFP)
In doing so, they will become the new faces of American space exploration. Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch will make the voyage with th...
Books About Space for Future Astronomers
Mar 11, 2026 (SPX)
We prepared the following list after reviewing expert recommendations from science publishers and analyzing curated summaries from the Headway astronomy collect...
A Plan B for space? On the risks of concentrating national space power in private hands
Mar 11, 2026 (SPX)
Commercial integration is now embedded in U.S. space policy and shapes national space strategy. As someone who studies space and international security, I have ...
Photonic crystal concept advances laser light sail propulsion
Mar 11, 2026 (SPX)
Traditional light sail concepts typically use metal-coated polymer films that reflect much of the incident light but also absorb some of the energy and convert ...
Tourism on hold as Middle East war casts uncertainty
Mar 05, 2026 (AFP)
"My last group of tourists left three days ago, and all the other groups planned for March have been cancelled," said Nazih Rawashdeh, a tour guide near Irbid, ...
Chinese visitors to Japan slump as spat rumbles on
Feb 18, 2026 (AFP)
"Last year, the lunar new year began in late January, but this year it fell in mid-February," the Japan National Tourism Organization said as it published the d...
Texas AM partners with Aegis to orbit TAMU SPIRIT research hub on ISS
Feb 17, 2026 (SPX)
TAMU SPIRIT, short for the Texas A and M and Aegis Aerospace Multi Use Space Platform Integrating Research and Innovative Technology, is designed as a "satellit...
How Space Exploration Quietly Shapes the Ways Young People Map Their Futures
Feb 14, 2026 (SPX)
Education-Once Again, the Fuel that Fuels Exploration A good education is critical for today's space field. Astrophysicists, aerospace engineers, data scientist...
International crew arrives at space station
Feb 14, 2026 (AFP)
The US space agency's Crew-12 arrived at the orbiting laboratory after a journey of about 34 hours that started with blastoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboar...
International crew takes off for space station
Feb 13, 2026 (AFP)
The US space agency's international Crew-12 lifted off at approximately 5:15 am local time (1015 GMT) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral la...
NASA crew set for flight to ISS
Feb 13, 2026 (AFP)
The US space agency is targeting February 13 for the lift-off of Crew-12's mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a window opening at 5:15am local time (...
Sophie Adenot, the second French woman to fly to space
Feb 13, 2026 (AFP)
On Friday, she blasted off from that very launchpad, fulfilling her childhood dream and becoming just the second French woman to fly to space. Adenot is one of ...
Voyager wins NASA ISS mission management role through 2030
Feb 10, 2026 (SPX)
NASA's task order structure enables the agency to issue individual orders under the umbrella contract, with the potential to add options that expand both scope ...
Launch to ISS pushed to Thursday over weather: NASA
Feb 09, 2026 (AFP)
The US space agency is now targeting February 12 for the lift-off of Crew-12's mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a window opening at 5:38am local ti...
NASA confirms first flight to ISS since medical evacuation
Feb 06, 2026 (AFP)
Crew-12 will lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday, the US space agency said, with launch time "targeted for no earlier than 6:01 am" local time ...
The coming end of ISS, symbol of an era of global cooperation
Feb 05, 2026 (AFP)
Since November 2000, there have always been several humans on board the football field-sized scientific laboratory, whipping around the planet at eight kilometr...
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