The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) submits this letter in response to the amendment (SAT-AMD-20210818-00105) filed by Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (SpaceX) for a ...
If I may start with a tired, but extremely true pun: covering the Chinese space industry inevitably involves a lot of reading of tea leaves. Speeches and press releases are full of party jargon. The ...
CNSA Director Zhang Kejian with ESA Director Josef Aschbacher in June 2023. Image credit: CNSA. China’s lunar program has rapidly evolved into one of the world’s most comprehensive and impressive. As ...
Dream Chaser shuttle during taxi tests at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Test Center in California. Image credit: Sierra Space. Sierra Space is working with NASA to develop a crewed version of its Dream ...
Ad Astra Rocket Company (Ad Astra) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed two separate contracts to continue the maturation of the VASIMR® rocket technology. The ...
The SpaceX Starship sits on the Starbase launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas prior to its first test flight. Image credit: SpaceX. The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) acting administrator, Polly ...
Think of a “Death Star,” or just about any massive human-made structure that Hollywood has imagined in the cosmos. If any of them were built by conventional means — i.e., made on the ground and fitted ...
Nokia Bell Labs is deploying the first cellular network on the Moon to demonstrate that cellular technologies can provide the critical communications needs for future lunar or Martian missions. NASA ...
Rendering of tourists riding Space Perspective’s Spaceship Neptune. Image credit: Space Perspective. 50 years ago, the Space Race pitted superpowers against one another in a scramble to be first to ...
Quad Cities International Airport is launching a feasibility study about opening a spaceport. Image credit: Quad Cities International Airport. The Quad Cities International Airport in Moline, Michigan ...
Lunar simulant is used to test a rover at Michigan Tech’s Planetary Surface Technology Development Lab. Image credit: Michigan Technological University. There is a growing business in selling fake ...
Emposat’s Global TT&C Network. Image credit: Emposat. Oftentimes when people think of the emerging commercial space sector, two things come to mind: rockets and satellites. This is not surprising, as ...