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Artemis Accords hits 50 signatories
Posted: Sun, Dec 15 8:55 AM ET (1355 GMT)
The Artemis Accords hit the milestone of 50 nations as signatories Wednesday. In separate events at NASA Headquarters, Panama and Austria signed the Accords, which...

JPL completes investigation into Ingenuity Mars helicopter final flight
Posted: Sun, Dec 15 8:53 AM ET (1353 GMT)
JPL has completed an investigation into the final flight of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. Ingenuity, designed for just five flights, made a hard landing on...

NASA delays Artemis 2 and 3 missions again
Posted: Sat, Dec 7 10:23 AM ET (1523 GMT)
NASA has again delayed the next Artemis missions to the moon. At a briefing Thursday, NASA announced that the Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed...

Vega C returns to flight with Sentinel-1C launch
Posted: Sat, Dec 7 10:12 AM ET (1512 GMT)
Europe's Vega C rocket successfully returned to flight Thursday, nearly two years after a launch failure. The Vega C lifted off from French Guiana...

Trump nominates Jared Isaacman to lead NASA
Posted: Sat, Dec 7 10:07 AM ET (1507 GMT)
President-elect Trump announced Wednesday his intent to nominate Jared Isaacman, a billionaire and private astronaut, as NASA administrator. Isaacman is the CEO of payment...

Orbex halts work on own launch site
Posted: Sat, Dec 7 10:01 AM ET (1501 GMT)
Small launch vehicle developer Orbex is switching launch sites. The company announced Wednesday it would pause development of its own launch site, Sutherland Spaceport in...

India launches ESA's Proba-3 mission
Posted: Sat, Dec 7 9:59 AM ET (1459 GMT)
India launched a European Space Agency mission this morning to create artificial solar eclipses. A PSLV-XL rocket lifted off at 5:34 a.m....

China launches enhanced Zhuque-2 rocket
Posted: Fri, Nov 29 7:26 AM ET (1226 GMT)
Chinese launch startup Landspace put two satellites into orbit late Tuesday with the first launch of an improved version of its Zhuque-2 rocket. The...

FCC approves Starlink direct-to-device services
Posted: Fri, Nov 29 7:23 AM ET (1223 GMT)
The FCC has granted SpaceX conditional approval to provide direct-to-smartphone services in the United States. The FCC said Tuesday that SpaceX could use...

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites
Posted: Fri, Nov 29 7:21 AM ET (1221 GMT)
SpaceX launched 24 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 late Tuesday. The rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 11:41 pm EST (...



news in brief
AST SpaceMobile raises $400 million
Posted: Sat, Jan 25 10:18 AM ET (1518 GMT)

China launches classified satellite
Posted: Sat, Jan 25 10:15 AM ET (1515 GMT)

China launches megaconstellation satellites
Posted: Sat, Jan 25 10:14 AM ET (1514 GMT)

news links
Monday, January 27
Japan to join U.S.-led space telescope project in search for life
Kyodo International — 5:51 am ET (1051 GMT)


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