Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 30, 2026
NASA on Friday pushed back the earliest date that astronauts could fly to the Moon, due to forecasts of freezing temperatures at the Florida launch site. The earliest window for the moonshot will now be February 8, two days later than originally scheduled. NASA was preparing to conduct a key fueling test over the weekend of the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket that is on the Cape Canaveral lau

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2026
Balerion Space Ventures has made a strategic investment in Northwood Space's 100 million dollar Series B funding round, targeting what it sees as a critical bottleneck in the emerging space economy: terrestrial ground infrastructure. The firm positions this deployment of capital as part of its broader focus on the foundational systems required to scale space operations across commercial and gove

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2026
Leonardo DRS has been awarded a subcontract to deliver advanced infrared mission payloads for the Space Development Agency's Tracking Layer Tranche 3, expanding space-based support for the U.S. missile defense architecture. The contract positions the company as the space-based mission payload provider for TRKT3, a critical element in the U.S. military program to detect, track, and cue defenses a

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2026
Detergent bottles and other litter can travel thousands of miles across the ocean before washing up on remote islands like Kaho'olawe in Hawaii, highlighting how persistent plastic pollution has become in the marine environment. A remote sensing technology developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that recently detected plastic pollution on land is now inspiring efforts to one day track ocea

NASA has selected Axiom Space for its fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for 2027.

The company expects more satellite orders and space work fueled by Golden Dome

SpaceX is seeking Federal Communications Commission approval for a satellite constellation of unprecedented scale intended to function as an orbital data center.

One of the biggest questions in the tech sector has been if AI is the future, where does all the infrastructure go? Some space industry leaders — including Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — believe the answer could be in orbit, via space-based data centers.