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NASA Seeks Feedback on Requirements for New Commercial Space Stations

Jul 03, 2024 (SPX)

In the future, the agency plans to transition its operations in low Earth orbit to commercially owned and operated destinations to ensure continued access and p...

Space Renaissance International Achieves Observer Status At U.N. COPUOS

Jul 03, 2024 (SPX)

SRI unwaveringly supports the values and member states of UN COPUOS, along with fellow prestigious observer organizations such as the IAF, COSPAR, IAA, ESA, and...

Chang'e 6 mission raises potential for China-US space cooperation

Jul 01, 2024 (SPX)

The Chang'e 6 probe returned to Earth on Tuesday with rock and soil samples from the lunar far side, a region that constantly faces away from our planet. The pr...

NASA Explores the Potential of Fungi to Grow Space Habitats

Jul 01, 2024 (SPX)

The Phase III NIAC award provides $2 million over two years to further develop the Mycotecture Off Planet project, preparing for a potential demonstration missi...

Proba-3 tests formation flying systems on Earth

Jul 01, 2024 (SPX)

When two satellites approach within a few hundred meters, they typically execute collision avoidance maneuvers. However, ESA's Proba-3 mission involves a contro...

NASA picks SpaceX to carry ISS to its watery graveyard after 2030

Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)

Elon Musk's company has been awarded a contract with a potential value of $843 million to develop and deliver the spaceship, dubbed the US Deorbit Vehicle. "Sel...

Sunbed wars: Greece tries to rein in beach chaos

Jun 25, 2024 (AFP)

It is an idyllic scene, but one that is totally illegal. Like many others in Greece, the two establishments on Pefkochori beach do not have a licence to set up ...

Designing for outer space

Jun 25, 2024 (SPX)

The cross-disciplinary design course MAS.S66/4.154/16.89 (Space Architectures) was run in parallel with the departments of Architecture, and Aeronautics and Ast...

NASA calls off spacewalk for second time this month

Jun 24, 2024 (UPI)

Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson reported the leak on the suit's servicing and cooling umbilical unit, or SCU, just before she and Mike Barratt were set to walk o...

European tech must keep pace with US, China: Meta's Clegg

Jun 24, 2024 (AFP)

Clegg, president of global affairs at the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said Europe had a "real problem". "We are falling very rapidly beh...

Ecuador to impose visas for Chinese tourists amid influx

Jun 18, 2024 (AFP)

Starting July 1, Quito will suspend the bilateral agreement that had allowed Chinese citizens to stay in Ecuador for up to 90 days without applying for a visa, ...

Kayhan Space Launches Comprehensive Spaceflight Intelligence Platform

Jun 17, 2024 (SPX)

While many resources provide essential information about orbital assets, there has been no single platform that combines data such as active and decayed satelli...

Voyager 1 Resumes Full Science Operations

Jun 17, 2024 (SPX)

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is conducting normal science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023. The team partial...

NASA delays return of Starliner astronauts from space station

Jun 14, 2024 (UPI)

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who embarked on the long-awaited Boeing Starliner mission June 5 and docked at the International Space Station ...

NASA says 'emergency' audio from ISS was simulation exercise

Jun 13, 2024 (UPI)

NASA said there was "no emergency situation going on aboard the International Space Station" in a post on the ISS X account. "At approximately 5:28 p.m. CDT, au...

Frenchman found dead at Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome

Jun 13, 2024 (AFP)

"Our embassy... has been informed of the death of a French tourist. It has been mobilised to offer support to his family," a diplomatic source told AFP on Thurs...

NASA cancels ISS spacewalk after 'spacesuit discomfort'

Jun 13, 2024 (UPI)

Astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matt Dominick were in their suits and set to step out of the ISS when the mission was scrubbed. "The spacewalk today, June 13, at ...

Human bodies mostly recover from space, tourist mission shows

Jun 11, 2024 (AFP)

In what was been billed as the most comprehensive look yet at the health effects of space, dozens of papers were published on Tuesday using new data from four S...

NASA and Boeing Advance Starliner Tests with Crew at Space Station

Jun 11, 2024 (SPX)

As part of the Boeing Crew Flight Test, Wilmore and Williams, with ground teams, are completing various objectives since Starliner arrived at the station on Jun...

US and Germany double down on space exploration

Jun 09, 2024 (UPI)

The Artemis campaign is a series of missions with the robust goal of returning to and establishing a long-term presence on the moon with the help of internation...