A Russian satellite likely suffered a “low-intensity explosion” that created hundreds of pieces of debris in low Earth orbit, according to one company’s analysis.

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A solar storm in May revealed the challenges and current state of space weather modeling and readiness.

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NASA is just months away from closing off its data relay satellite fleet to new users in preparation for switching over to commercial alternatives.

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Saudi Arabia is stepping up efforts to become a major force in space as commercial activity in the industry rises across the Middle East.

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Firefly Aerospace placed eight cubesats into orbit on a mission funded by NASA on the first flight of the company’s Alpha rocket since an upper stage malfunction more than half a year ago.

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Sentinel-2C is ready to be shipped from Germany for a two-week trip across the Atlantic Ocean to the European spaceport in French Guiana, where Europe’s latest Earth science satellite is due to launch on the final flight of the original version of the Vega rocket.

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NASA has selected SpaceX to launch a small gamma-ray astronomy mission on a Falcon 9 in 2027.

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As NASA pushes ahead with a crewed lunar landing on the Artemis 3 mission in September 2026, the agency’s own analysis estimates a nearly one-in-three chance the lander will be at least a year and a half late.

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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is tackling many of the challenges facing crewed Artemis missions.

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Rick Tumlinson writes that the International Space Station must be preserved rather than destroyed in reentry.

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When it's time to retire the International Space Station, it should be moved to higher orbit, so that it may one day be made useful again, rather than incinerated.

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Japan’s H3 rocket successfully launched an Earth observation satellite Sunday on its third flight.

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NASA and SpaceX are examining how to alter the Dragon spacecraft’s reentry process to limit the amount of debris from the spacecraft’s trunk section that reaches the ground.

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European weather satellite operator Eumetsat has shifted the upcoming launch of a weather satellite from an Ariane 6 to a Falcon 9, a move that surprised and frustrated European space officials.

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Ground-based telescopes ignore “a huge swath” of the inner solar system because the sky is simply too bright

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NASA and Boeing plan to keep the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at the International Space Station well into July to conduct additional tests, while emphasizing its two-person crew is not “stranded” in space.

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MDA Space has received a contract from the Canadian Space Agency worth $1 billion Canadian ($730 million) for the next phase of development of a robotic arm system for the lunar Gateway.

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China is getting set for future deep space missions, having retrieved nearly two kilograms of lunar samples from the moon's far side.

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A Russian satellite in low Earth orbit broke up June 26, creating more than 100 pieces of trackable debris and briefly causing the International Space Station crew to take shelter.

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Firefly Aerospace has entered an agreement to launch its Alpha rocket from the Esrange Space Centre in northern Sweden.

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The first launch for China’s G60 Starlink megaconstellation of over 12,000 satellites is set for early August.

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A House spending bill for fiscal year 2025 would cut funding from the administration’s request for science and education programs at NASA.

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NASA selected SpaceX to develop a spacecraft that will be used to perform the final phases of the deorbiting of the International Space Station around the end of the decade.

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As NASA grapples with more spacesuit problems on the International Space Station, the company it selected to develop replacement suits says it is pulling back from that effort.

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