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Lees meerDidn’t phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why Houston, we have a problem: NASA has lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.…
Lees meerDidn’t phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why Houston, we have a problem: NASA has lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.…
Lees meerSignoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the ground Space outfit Rocket Lab says its Hungry Hippo is ready to go into space, a fillip for the company’s plans to fly its new Neutron launch vehicle.…
Lees meerBillionaire's bid progresses while agency braces for sweeping reductions and program uncertainty Jared Isaacman has cleared another hurdle on his way to becoming the next NASA Administrator after the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Tra…
Lees meerPLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more Asia In Brief Chinese rocketry outfit LandSpace last week flew what it hoped would be the country’s first r…
Lees meerIsaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again' The US must return astronauts to the Moon before China mounts its first crewed landing there, NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman predicted on Wednesday. He also vowed that the co…
Lees meerRussian vehicles will depart soon, but Baikonur launchpad damage clouds future arrivals Updated NASA confirmed this week that for the first time, all eight of the International Space Station's docking ports are currently occupied – four by Russian …
Lees meerAn ‘anomaly’ meant a fireball arrived at the recovery zone instead of a spent first stage There's good news and bad news for the Chinese commercial launch industry. The good news is that LandSpace's ZhuQue-3 launched successfully on its maiden fligh…
Lees meerLEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits Nearly all images from some space telescopes in low Earth orbit could be affected by light from man-made satellites as the number of communication spacecraft surges, new research led by NA…
Lees meerRussian vehicles will depart soon, but Baikonur launchpad damage clouds future arrivals NASA confirmed this week that for the first time, all eight of the International Space Station's docking ports are currently occupied – four by Russian vehicles.…
Lees meerBrit astro Tim Peake's much-vaunted mission to the ISS a distant memory Nearly ten years after Brit astronaut Tim Peake visited the International Space Station (ISS), the UK has slipped behind Spain in European Space Agency funding rankings.…
Lees meerPLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more! Asia in Brief Singapore’s government last week told Google and Apple to prevent fake government messages.…
Lees meerRoscosmos confirms 'damage' as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027 The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damage during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos.…
Lees meerRoscosmos confirms 'damage' as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027 The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damange during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos.…
Lees meerRoscosmos confirms structural damage as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027 The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damange during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos.…
Lees meerExoMars project may actually get to the red planet one day The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project.…
Lees meerCapsule might only manage three crewed missions to the ISS NASA has modified its Commercial Crew contract with Boeing, dropping the order from six to four missions, of which one will be uncrewed.…
Lees meerExoMars project may actually get to the red planet one day The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project.…
Lees meerCapsule might only manage three crewed missions to the ISS NASA has modified its Commercial Crew contract with Boeing, dropping the order from six to four missions, of which one will be uncrewed.…
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