SpaceX Dragon Crew completes new record-breaking 167-day-long mission Four crew members of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Crew-1 capsule, developed by NASA and Elon Musk’s aerospace manufacturing… ByGabriele PetrauskaiteAugust 4, 2021
International Space Station suffers from chronic pressure drop The Russian space agency Roscosmos reported a pressure drop in one isolated part of the Zvezda service module… ByClément CharpentreauAugust 2, 2021
Germany considers defense applications of Aurora space plane The German Defense Ministry awarded the startup Polaris a €250,000 contract to study the application of the Aurora… ByClément CharpentreauJuly 29, 2021
UK CAA becomes the country’s space regulator The UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA) became the country’s space regulator, starting from July 29, 2021. The… ByAeroTime TeamJuly 29, 2021
UK Space Agency Director – meet the female pilot who didn’t faint Rachel Gardner-Poole did not expect to be told that women could not be pilots when she started her… ByAeroTime TeamJuly 26, 2021
Korean Air studies launching space rockets from Boeing 747 The Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) commissioned Korean Air (KAL) and Seoul National University to study the… ByClément CharpentreauJuly 21, 2021
Blue Origin successfully carries out maiden space tourism flight On July 20, 2021, at 9 a.m. EDT, the New Shepard rocket took off, materializing 22 years of… ByClément CharpentreauJuly 20, 2021
Rheinland Air service reserves eFlyer 800s from Bye Aerospace Bye Aerospace, an American aircraft manufacturer specializing in designing electric aircraft, has announced that Rheinland Air Service (GmbH)… ByParam AgarwalJuly 20, 2021
German armed forces enter the space battlefield Following in the footsteps of the United States and France, Germany put into service its own space command… ByClément CharpentreauJuly 16, 2021
United, Mesa pledge to buy 200 short-haul electric planes from Heart Aerospace The Swedish aerospace start-up Heart Aerospace has received an order for 200 electric ES-19 planes. The 19-seat aircraft… ByGabriele PetrauskaiteJuly 13, 2021
Bezos’ Blue Origin gets go-ahead for manned space travel The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reportedly granted Blue Origin a license to carry humans into space… ByVytė KlišauskaitėJuly 13, 2021
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two Unity makes successful crewed flight Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity successfully carried a crew of mission specialists and Richard Branson to the edge of… ByAeroTime TeamJuly 12, 2021
Chinese astronauts perform first spacewalk outside new space station Chinese astronaut tandem performed the country’s first spacewalk outside China’s new orbital space station. Astronauts Liu Boming and… ByVytė KlišauskaitėJuly 5, 2021
Branson beats Bezos in the space race as Virgin Galactic is set to fly earlier Virgin Galactic’s founder Richard Branson announced that he would be traveling to space together with five other crew… ByVytė KlišauskaitėJuly 2, 2021
Virgin Orbit launches the first commercial payload to space Virgin Orbit conducted the first commercial launch of its air-launched LauncherOne rocket.The launch, conducted on June 30, 2021,… ByValius VenckunasJuly 1, 2021
International Space Station receives solar power upgrade After three spacewalks, astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough completed the installation of new solar panels outside the… ByClément CharpentreauJune 29, 2021
Will SpaceX resurrect 1950s plans for military cargo rockets? When it comes to American military hardware, the data provided in the yearly budget estimates of the US… ByValius VenckunasJune 18, 2021
China to send humans to space after 5 years gap A crew of three to spend three months in space after blasting off aboard Long March rocket in… ByValius VenckunasJune 14, 2021