Intuitive Machines selects SpaceX for launch of third lunar lander mission
Commercial lunar lander developer Intuitive Machines will launch its third lunar lander mission on a SpaceX Falcon 9, the same vehicle the company selected for its first two lander missions.
Unseenlabs lines up Vega flight for fourth maritime surveillance satellite
French startup Unseenlabs is set to fly its next maritime surveillance nanosatellite on an Arianespace Vega rocket in mid-August, instead of launching with Rocket Lab as it did for the first three BRO spacecraft the venture has launched since mid-2019.
Interoperability, sustainability and cybersecurity pose challenges for small satellite sector
Ensuring that small satellites can communicate not only within their own constellations but within a broader ecosystem is one of the primary challenges cited by Lt. Gen. John Shaw, U.S. Space Command deputy commander, in an Aug.
IHI Aerospace to offer Epsilon rocket commercially
Japanese company IHI Aerospace plans to market a version of the little-used Epsilon small launch vehicle to commercial customers, although at prices significantly higher than similar vehicles in development.
U.S. Army space commander concerned about disruptions to satellites
peaking at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium at the Von Braun Convention Center, Karbler said adversaries are developing electronic and cyber tools to deny the U.S. military access to satellites in orbit.
Blobs in space: Slime mold to blast off for ISS experiment
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are set to welcome a most unusual guest, as "the Blob" blasts off into orbit on Tuesday.
An alien on its own planet, the Blob is an unclassifiable organism—neither fish nor fowl. Nor is it plant, animal or fungus.
As such, Physarum polycephalum—a type of slime mold—has long fascinated scientists and will now be part of a unique experiment carried out simultaneously by astronauts hundreds of kilometers above the Earth and by hundreds of thousands of French school students.
The slime mold first appeared on Earth around 500 million years ago, and defies conventional biology because it is made up of one cell with multiple nuclei.
While most organisms grow and reproduce through the division and multiplication of cells, Physarum polycephalum does not.
Spacesuit delays threaten moon landing plans, NASA watchdog says
Delays and cost overruns developing new spacesuits could derail NASA's planned return to the moon by 2024, the space agency's official watchdog said in a report Tuesday.
Cost projections for the spacesuit development are approaching $1 billion, according to the report from NASA's Office of the Inspector General. It attributed delays to the coronavirus pandemic, technical challenges and Next Vega mission to orbit Pleiades Neo 4 EO bird and 4 small science sats
On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 10:47 pm local time (01:47 am (UTC) on Tuesday, August 17), Arianespace's second Vega mission of the year will lift off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, with the optical observation satellite Pleiades Neo 4 and four auxiliary passengers.
After liftoff from Europe's Spaceport, the Vega launcher will fly for a little over six minutes, powered by the fir Aviation Week awards NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter with laureate
The "little helicopter that could" has garnered attention, fans, and numerous accolades, with the latest coming from Aviation Week Network in the form of a 2021 Laureate Award. The Laureate Awards honor "extraordinary achievements in aerospace."
When the 4-pound (1.8 kilogram) rotorcraft hovered on Mars for 39.1 seconds on April 19, 2021, it was the first instance of powered, controlled fl New evidence of recent Venusian volcanism
New data analysis techniques allow evidence of recent volcanism to be found in old Magellan spacecraft data. It is unclear if this activity is occurring today, or if it occurred within tens of million years, but geologically speaking, either case is recent. This adds to the growing body of evidence that volcanoes on Venus didn't go extinct as long ago as many had thought. This work was conducted 
