China’s historic Shenzhou-12 manned mission takes off
On June 17, 2021, China’s historic Shenzhou-12 manned mission took off carrying three astronauts to its emerging Chinese…
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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…
Satellite hunters: a brief history of anti-space fighter jets
Through the last century, fighter aircraft evolved towards multifunctionality – an ability to engage vaster and vaster arrays…
When are we going to have space flight attendants?
There’s an interesting scene in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, where a pen is captured floating in…
Space junk: have we averted crisis?
Since the 1950s, humans have been sending probes and satellites into space. But we’ve also left behind a…
AsterX: France starts first military exercise in space
The French Space Command (CDE), created in 2019, launched its first military space exercise, called ASTERX. The name…
Will Perseverance’s helicopter really conduct first flight on another planet?
The most unusual feature of the Mars 2020 mission is not the Perseverance – the largest ant the…
NASA’s Moon news suspense: water and Boeing 747
On October 21, 2020, NASA said that October 26 will see an exciting announcement of the Moon-related discovery.…
SpaceX to launch NASA-sponsored moon mission
SpaceX has secured a contract to act as the launch partner for Masten Space Systems for its first…
SpaceX prepares for open beta test of Starlink
On October 6, 2020, SpaceX launched another batch of 60 Starlink satellites. According to Elon Musk, as soon…
Crew Dragon Endeavour’s landing marks spaceflight history
After a 64 day orbital round-journey to the International Space Station, the Crew Dragon spacecraft operated by Douglas…
NASA successfully launches Perseverance, the latest Mars rover
Perseverance, the new NASA rover designed to study the surface of Mars, was launched onboard ULA Atlas V…
Bright dawn of commercial space industry
Space is infinite and endless. Over the years, scientists and space-technology geeks have been trying to make the…
5 skyrocketing space startups to watch in 2020
The startup ecosystem regularly presents state-of-the-art innovations to the business world. If every startup domain presents bright-minded and…
SpaceX Starship Mk1 explodes during testing
The first full-scale prototype of SpaceX Starship, the Starship Mk1, has experienced a failure during pressure systems testing…
NASA takes delivery of its first all-electric X-plane
These days NASA is not only preoccupied with the research and development of spacecraft – the agency is…
Official: U.S. establishes Space Command [Video]
The United States Department of Defense officially announced the establishment of U.S. Space Command on August 29, 2019.…
Exploring the future of space with Charlie Camarda from NASA
Charlie Camarda is an American engineer and NASA astronaut who was part of the first mission into space…