Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 07, 2024
Interstellar Technologies Inc. ("Interstellar"), a space infrastructure company focused on space transportation and utilization, has made significant strides both in talent acquisition and production expansion. With new secondees from seven organizations, including three Toyota affiliates, and the opening of a new production facility in Hokkaido, Interstellar continues to strengthen its efforts

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 07, 2024
Blue Origin has confirmed that its New Shepard NS-27 mission is on schedule for launch on October 7, 2024. The launch window opens at 8:00 AM CDT / 1300 UTC, with live coverage starting at 7:45 AM CDT on BlueOrigin.com. The NS-27 mission will introduce Blue Origin's second human-rated New Shepard vehicle, expanding its capacity to meet increasing customer demand. While this launch will be

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

Paris, France (SPX) Oct 04, 2024
ESA's double-satellite Proba-3 mission has successfully passed its final system test before shipment to India for launch. The mission, designed to perform precise eclipse-like observations, involved receiving commands from the mission's science team and transmitting images, replicating its future operations in space. Proba-3's twin satellites will perform millimetre-scale formation flying,

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