Blue Origin flies six on first New Shepard suborbital flight of 2022
Blue Origin launched its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on its first flight of the year March 31, carrying six people on a brief trip to space and back.
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Starlink eyes Southeast Asia foothold with the Philippines
The Philippines is set to become the first country in Southeast Asia to access SpaceX’s Starlink broadband services, its government announced March 31.
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Slingshot wins $25 million Space Force contract to develop digital twin of the space environment
Slingshot Aerospace won a $25.2 million Space Force contract to develop a virtual replica of the space environment
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Chinese spacecraft reenters atmosphere ahead of new space station missions
China deorbited the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft Thursday after testing on-orbit docking, refueling and module transposition for the Chinese space station.
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Study reveals lunar regolith evolution process on Chang'e-4 landing area
Blue Origin launches its fourth crew to final frontier
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin successfully carried out its fourth crewed spaceflight Thursday, a ten-minute joyride beyond the planet's atmosphere and back again.
The New Shepard suborbital rocket blasted off from the company's Launch Site One base in west Texas at 8:58 am local time (1358 GMT) with six crew members.
The crew included Gary Lai, chief architect of the New Shepard program, plus five paying customers—though the ticket price hasn't been disclosed.
"I felt my skin pulling taut," Lai said, of the rocket ride.
Lai's inclusion came after comedian Pete Davidson, the boyfriend of reality star Kim Kardashian, canceled his participation without disclosing a reason.
On the road to cultured meat for astronauts and Earthlings
Cultured meat could be a game changer for the environment, food security, human health and animal welfare. But some challenges prevent it from reaching its full potential. Now ESA is supporting researchers to explore the possibility of growing cultured meat to feed astronauts. Overcoming the challenges of growing meat in space could also help us find solutions to produce it sustainably and effec Full-scale static test concludes qualification testing for Orion spacecraft abort motor
Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin successfully performed the final full-scale ground test of the abort motor for NASA's Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Northrop Grumman's Promontory test facility. The 17-foot-tall abort motor is one of three motors comprising the LAS that sits atop the Orion spacecraft aboard NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and is designed to increase as Blue Origin launches 4th crew to space
Blue Origin launched the fourth crewed mission of its New Shepard rocket Thursday morning from Texas, carrying a crew of six to the edge of space and back.
The successful liftoff followed a 48-hour delay due to poor weather conditions at the launch site.
The NS-20 mission lifted off at 8:58 a.m. CDT from the company's launch facility near Van Horn, Texas, toting five space touris Long March 11 launches Tianping-2 satellites into orbit
China has successfully launched a Long March (Chang Zheng) 11 carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province in the country's north-west on Wednesday and deployed three Tianping-2 satellites into orbit, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said.
The launch was carried out at 10:29 a.m. local time (02:29 GMT) from the Jiuquan launch center, CA 
