FAA grounds Virgin Galactic’s spaceship pending probe into Richard Branson’s flight
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is grounded until the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) completes an investigation into the company’s test flight carrying Richard Branson. During...
Boeing’s spacecraft Starliner returning to factory to resolve valve issue – Launch could be delayed by several months
Earlier this month, Boeing cancelled the launch of its CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS) after discovering a problem with the valves...
Virgin Galactic announces first fully crewed spaceflight
Virgin Galactic has announced that the flight window for the next rocket-powered test flight of its SpaceShipTwo Unity opens July 11, pending weather and...
International Space Station astronauts install 2 advanced solar arrays provided by Boeing
Two new, advanced solar arrays provided by Boeing have increased the International Space Station (ISS) power supply after European astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA...
Billionaire Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is going to space on first crewed flight of Blue Origin rocket
Jeff Bezos will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company,...
Sixty years ago, Yuri Gagarin was the first man sent into space
Yuri Gagarin is a monument of the Soviet space conquest. Sixty years ago, he became the first man in the world to be sent...
Airbus space technology reaches Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover relies on Airbus built weather station and communications antennaWhen NASA's Perseverance rover lands on the surface of the Red Planet next...
“Fly me to the Moon”: Airbus wins ESA contract for three more European Service Modules for NASA’s Orion spacecraft
Going to the Moon with the Artemis programme involves Europe
Service modules being built by Airbus Bremen - 10 European nations involved
The European Space...
Virgin Orbit aces second launch demo from the wing of a Boeing 747-400 and deploys NASA payloads
Virgin Orbit, the California-based satellite launch company, confirmed that its LauncherOne rocket reached space during the company’s second launch demonstration today, successfully deploying 10...
France puts second military observation satellite CSO-2 in orbit with Belgian participation
France successfully launched its second CSO-2 military observation satellite with a Soyuz rocket from the Guyanese Space Centre near Kourou in Guyana on December...
SpaceX Starship SN8 makes hard landing and explodes after high-altitude flight test
On 9 December, SpaceX Starship serial number 8 (SN8) lifted off from the Cameron County launch pad and successfully ascended, transitioned propellant, and performed...
SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts join Expedition 64 crew on the ISS
NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon have arrived...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts headed to International Space Station
An international crew of astronauts is en route to the International Space Station following a successful launch on the first NASA-certified commercial human spacecraft...
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed on Earth
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed on Earth at 16:54 UTC in...
Soyuz MS-17 docks International Space Station in record time after successful launch
Only three hours after leaving Earth from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, today, the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey...
Virgin Galactic unveils Mach 3 aircraft design; signs MoU with Rolls-Royce
Virgin Galactic Holdings, a vertically integrated aerospace and space travel company, which includes its manufacturer of advanced air and space vehicles, The Spaceship Company,...
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon safely returns to Earth
On Saturday, May 30, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon’s second demonstration (Demo-2) mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the...
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo completes second flight from Spaceport America
Virgin Galactic has successfully completed its second SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America. This flight follows the completion of the first test flight from...
The two astronauts onboard the Crew Dragon successfully docked at the International Space Station
The Crew Dragon has arrived at its destination in space.Barely 19 hours after a historic launch — the first time astronauts had ever travelled...
[Guided tour – video] Crew Dragon astronauts name their SpaceX capsule “Endeavour”
On 30 May at 19:22 (UTC), the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Pad...