Firefly prepares Alpha Flight 7 stairway to seven mission
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:40
Firefly Aerospace is preparing its next Alpha rocket mission, Flight 7 "Stairway to Seven", as a dedicated return-to-flight test from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Alpha FLTA007 rocket will launch no earlier than February 18 on a mission focused on achieving nominal performance of both the first and second stages rather than deploying an operation ReOrbit and Google Cloud develop orbital space cloud network
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:40
ReOrbit has launched Space Cloud, a multi year initiative to build a distributed network of software enabled satellites that can move and process data securely in orbit, in collaboration with Google Cloud. The company describes the project as a space based data center network that will combine on board computing, advanced networking and cloud style orchestration to support government, military a Watch live: Crew-12 launch and docking
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:00
Join ESA teams to watch live the launch and docking of Crew-12, marking the beginning of a nine‑month mission to the International Space Station.
Watch live: Crew-12 launch and docking (updated)
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 06:00
Update — 10 February 2026: NASA and SpaceX have announced they are now planning to launch the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station no earlier than 10:15 GMT / 11:15 CET (05:15 ET) on Friday 13 February, due to forecast weather conditions along the flight path of the Dragon spacecraft. All the dates and times have been updated in the article.
Musk says SpaceX focus is on the moon rather than Mars
Monday, 09 February 2026 21:55
A little more than a year after dismissing the moon as a “distraction,” Elon Musk says SpaceX will focus on lunar settlement before sending humans to Mars.
A road map to truly sustainable water systems in space
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Launch to ISS pushed to Thursday over weather: NASA
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A long-lost Soviet spacecraft: AI could finally solve the mystery of Luna 9's landing site
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Ariane 6: more boosters, more power
Monday, 09 February 2026 14:00
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For its most powerful flight yet, Ariane 6 lifts off for the first time with four boosters.
Designed for versatility, Ariane 6 can adapt to each mission: flying with two boosters for lighter payloads, or four boosters when more power is needed.
In its four-booster configuration, Ariane 6 can carry larger and heavier spacecraft into orbit, enabling some of Europe’s most ambitious missions — from science missions like PLATO to exploration systems such as Argonaut.
There’s a way forward for sovereign European space intel, but is there the will?
Monday, 09 February 2026 13:00
Germany’s top intelligence officials made waves last year by calling for the creation of a European spy network to lessen Europe’s dependence on American intelligence.
SpaceX shifts focus from Mars to moon, Musk says
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US astronaut to take her 3-year-old's cuddly rabbit into space
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The Race Is On: Artemis, China and Musk Turn the Moon Into the Next Strategic High Ground
Monday, 09 February 2026 03:45
When Artemis II finally lights its engines and arcs away from Cape Canaveral, it will do more than send four astronauts on a ten-day loop around the Moon. It will fire the starting gun on a race that Washington and Beijing still insist does not exist and pull Elon Musk's SpaceX into the center of a contest that blends geopolitics, markets and myth.
For two years, NASA has framed Artemis as NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don't Fully Explain Mars Organics
Sunday, 08 February 2026 05:54
In a new study, researchers say that non-biological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of organic compounds in a sample collected on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.
In March 2025, scientists reported identifying small amounts of decane, undecane, and dodecane in a rock sample analyzed in the chemistry lab aboard Curiosity. These were the largest organic compo DLR plans new control center for future Moon and Mars missions
Sunday, 08 February 2026 05:54
For upcoming human and robotic missions to the Moon and Mars, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will establish a new Human Exploration Control Center (HECC) at its site in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich. The new facility will expand the existing German Space Operations Center (GSOC) and is designed to manage complex, long-duration missions beyond low Earth orbit while reinforcing Germany and Europ