Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 08, 2024
PLD Space presented its strategic vision at the Beyond event, hosted at the company's new headquarters in Elche, Spain, to celebrate the first anniversary of the MIURA 1 launch. During the event, the company highlighted the significant advances in the MIURA 5 program, with a goal of launching by late 2025. In addition to MIURA 5, PLD Space revealed two ambitious projects: MIURA Next, a new

College Park, MD (SPX) Oct 04, 2024
On October 3, 2024, NASA announced that two space probes proposed by University of Maryland astronomers have advanced to the next round of consideration for a $1 billion mission slated to launch into orbit in 2032. The selected probes include the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) mission with UMD Astronomy Professor Christopher Reynolds as its principal investigator and the PRobe far

Miami (AFP) Oct 7, 2024
Europe's Hera probe successfully launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft that smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defences. Despite fears that an approaching hurricane could delay the launch, the probe blasted off on a SpaceX rocket into cloudy skies from Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida just before 11:00 am local

A camera destined for the Moon became part of the astronauts’ toolkit during ESA’s latest PANGAEA geology training in Lanzarote, Spain.