How can Earth observation data play a more central role in guiding future decisions on the environment? This was one of the questions asked at an ESA-hosted event that brought together leaders from Earth observation science with the global statistics community.

Rocket Lab announced May 7 the largest launch contract in the company’s history as it also moves to acquire a space robotics company.

Week in images: 04-08 May 2026

Discover our week through the lens

Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords May 7, the sixth country to do so in the last two and a half weeks.

A spacecraft designed to raise the decaying orbit of a NASA astrophysics satellite has passed environmental tests ahead of a launch as soon as June.

SAN FRANCISCO – British startup SatVu released imagery from HotSat-2, a thermal satellite built to keep tabs on energy infrastructure. HotSat-2, built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., is the second satellite in SatVu’s commercial high-resolution thermal-imaging constellation. The first, HotSat-1, failed six months after launch. HotSat-2 images released May 7 show refining of domestic crude […]

Five-year MECS2 award covers multi-orbit, multi-band commercial satellite services worldwide

MDA Space is continuing work on a robotic arm for the lunar Gateway while it discusses the future of the project with the Canadian Space Agency.

ESA and JAXA have finalized an agreement to collaborate on a mission to study the asteroid Apophis during its close flyby of Earth in 2029.

China launched the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft late Sunday, docking with the Tiangong space station hours later to deliver supplies, equipment, experiments and propellant.