THE STORY SpaceX completed Starship Flight 14’s full-vehicle wet dress rehearsal on September 24, advancing its planned orbital attempt beyond the earlier booster static fire. According to Space.com’s
THE STORY Rocket Lab secured a $90 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to build and operate two geostationary orbit
THE STORY On May 22, 2026, NASA announced one of its most sweeping organizational realignments in recent memory, combining mission directorates and
THE STORY Four Russian satellites have maneuvered into close proximity to an ICEYE radar satellite, the Finnish-founded company whose synthetic aperture
THE STORY Varda Space Industries successfully returned its W-6 capsule to Earth on May 18, landing under parachute at the Koonibba
THE STORY Cowboy Space Corporation — formerly Aetherflux — closed a $275 million Series B led by Index Ventures and filed plans three days
THE STORY Engineers are developing a concept for a spherical, rolling robot that would carry a swarm of tiny "dandelion drones&
THE STORY The U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command announced plans for the USSF-23 mission, which will launch
THE STORY NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed a rare, unusually luminous supernova explosion that appears to have
THE STORY Vast, the California-based startup best known for developing the Haven series of commercial space stations, announced on May 19
THE STORY NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on track for a September 2026 launch, and the agency has
THE STORY NASA's Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, passing within 2,864 miles (4,
THE STORY SpaceX is targeting May 19 for Flight 12, the debut launch of Starship Version 3 — a ground-up redesign of
