Starliner's Return to Flight: Committed but Without a Date
NASA and Boeing are standing behind Starliner despite an unresolved technical picture. Safety advisers say the capsule could remain grounded…
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SpaceX debuts Starfall reentry capsule in orbital demonstration
SpaceX lifted off from Cape Canaveral with Starfall, a brand-new reentry capsule weighing around 2,100 kg. The demonstration mission marks t…
NASA Confirms Sean Gallagher as Permanent Chief Information Officer
Sean Gallagher has been formally appointed NASA's Chief Information Officer, ending an interim period that began in January. The role puts h…
SpaceX flies Starfall, its new orbital reentry capsule
SpaceX launched a demonstration flight of Starfall on Tuesday, an all-new reentry capsule tipping the scales at around 2,100 kilograms. The …
Webb Telescope Reads the Chemical Story of Comet 3I/ATLAS
Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar visitor ever detected, has yielded its chemical secrets to the James Webb Space Telescope. Its u…
Trump's Quantum Space Order: Washington Bets on a Strategic Frontier
The White House has signed an executive order to speed up quantum technology development for space applications, from tamper-evident communi…
Vandenberg's Busiest Pad Serves Both Commerce and Espionage
Within two days, SpaceX flew two separate Falcon 9 missions from the same California pad — one adding to its commercial Starlink network, th…
Jio Charts Course for a Sovereign LEO Constellation Ahead of Its IPO
Jio Platforms, the digital arm of Reliance Industries and owner of India's largest mobile network, has outlined a two-stage plan to enter th…
DAPHNE: NASA targets the atmosphere-ionosphere frontier
NASA has chosen the DAPHNE mission concept to investigate how space weather and Earth's own atmospheric dynamics shape the near-space enviro…
ESA's Earth from Space series reaches its thousandth image
The European Space Agency has published the thousandth image in its Earth from Space series. The landmark highlights the breadth of Europe's…
Hubble probes the turbulent inner lives of galaxy clusters
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze on two remarkable galaxy clusters: one caught mid-collision, the other bending light from …
Space weather and Earth observation: two milestones in orbital science
Within hours of each other, ESA celebrated its thousandth Earth from Space image and NASA greenlit the DAPHNE mission concept to probe how s…
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