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Three Russian cosmonauts return from space station
Sep 29, 2022 (AFP)
Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov landed at the scheduled time of 1057 GM, 148 kilometres (91 miles) southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan. Footag...
Cristoforetti becomes first European woman to command ISS
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
The outgoing commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, used the occasion to seemingly make a rare space-bound reference to the war in Ukraine, saying that "de...
Kayhan Space and Precious Payload team to boost access to space traffic management
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
As part of the collaborative agreement, Precious Payload will offer Pathfinder - Kayhan's collision avoidance and conjunction assessment software - to satellite...
American, Russians to blast off for ISS as war rages in Ukraine
Sep 21, 2022 (AFP)
NASA's Frank Rubio and Russia's Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin are scheduled to take off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1354 G...
Axiom Space and Turkey sign agreement to send first Turkish astronaut to space
Sep 21, 2022 (SPX)
Axiom Space, a U.S. based commercial space company, currently building the world's first commercial space station, is working with the TUBITAK Space Technologie...
American, Russians reach space station as war rages in Ukraine
Sep 21, 2022 (AFP)
The Russian space agency Roscosmos and NASA both distributed live footage of the launch from Kazakhstan and commentators speaking over the feed said it was stab...
ISS National Lab Research Announcement Focused on Technology Advancement is Open
Sep 16, 2022 (SPX)
Space-based technology development and demonstration is a strategic priority for the ISS National Lab, as it provides an opportunity for accelerated technology ...
Space seeds thrive at the United Nations Campus
Sep 16, 2022 (SPX)
These 'space seeds' were on the International Space Station (ISS) together with German European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer during his Cosmic K...
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti becomes first European female ISS commander
Sep 15, 2022 (ESA)
Since beginning her Minerva mission in April 2022, Samantha has served as lead of the United States Orbital Segment (USOS), overseeing activities in the US, Eur...
Redwire and Sodern team up to market the Exquisite-Class Eagle Eye Star Tracker
Sep 13, 2022 (SPX)
The Eagle Eye star tracker will offer superior performance by leveraging the exceptional flight heritage of Sodern's highly resilient modular Hydra star tracker...
LeoLabs awarded contract from US Dept of Commerce to support space traffic management prototype
Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)
Under this contract, LeoLabs will provide its operationally proven tracking and conjunction alert data products for a subset of Resident Space Objects (RSOs), i...
NASA-funded technology helps relieve symptoms of menopause
Sep 05, 2022 (SPX)
Because there's no definitive cure for these biological responses, a textile marketer named Louise Nicholson wanted to help people stay comfortable during this ...
NASA calls a scrub on massive Moon rocket launch attempt
Aug 29, 2022 (AFP)
Fifty years after astronauts last set foot on the moon during the Apollo 17 mission, the Artemis space program is to get underway with the launch of the uncrewe...
NASA awards contract to demonstrate trash compacting system for ISS
Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)
This contract provides firm-fixed-price core requirements and indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, firm-fixed-price task orders, along with additional optio...
Boeing eyes February for space capsule's first crewed flight
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
Since 2020, American astronauts have traveled to the ISS aboard SpaceX's vessels but the US space agency wants to widen its options. After a series of hiccups i...
Track NASA's Artemis I mission in real time
Aug 19, 2022 (SPX)
During Artemis I, Orion will travel to 40,000 miles beyond the Moon in the first integrated flight test with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Using AROW, a...
Voyager logs 45 years in space as NASA's longest mission to date
Aug 18, 2022 (JPL)
NASA's twin Voyager probes have become, in some ways, time capsules of their era: They each carry an eight-track tape player for recording data, they have about...
Russian spacewalk cut short due to issue with suit
Aug 17, 2022 (AFP)
"Oleg, you must return to the airlock as soon as possible," the Earth-based Russian mission controllers ordered, more than two hours into his trip outside the I...
Yale project brings creative expression to space flight
Aug 12, 2022 (SPX)
In the spring course "The Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space," Yale students from several disciplines were asked to design and build a flight suit that would help...
Exposed! International Space Station tests organisms, materials in space
Aug 11, 2022 (SPX)
"There are ways to test the various components of space exposure individually on the ground, but the only way to get the combined effect of all of them at the s...
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