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Launch Vehicles & Propulsion
May 08, 2025
Rocket Lab says it plans to fly its Neutron launcher in a U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) mission rocket cargo experiment.
May 07, 2025
The U.S. Space Force says it has completed a critical propulsion test of the Oracle-M space situational awareness system.
Commercial Space
May 09, 2025
German startup Atmos Space Cargo has struck a joint venture agreement with uncrewed ground vehicle maker ARX Robotics.
May 09, 2025
Trump sees SpaceX and the private sector taking over deep-space travel for the U.S. space program.
Satellites
May 08, 2025
The U.S. Space Force has said it will fund CACI, General Atomics, and Viasat for further work into space laser communications terminal work.
May 08, 2025
Leonardo is exploring the purchase of a company in the small satellite sector, even as it advances talks with a strategic partner.
Budget, Policy & Regulation
May 09, 2025
Trump sees SpaceX and the private sector taking over deep-space travel for the U.S. space program.
May 08, 2025
Sierra Space, competing for the Space Force’s first batch of R-GPS satellites, has demonstrated integration of an early iteration of the hardware and software.
Operations & Safety
May 07, 2025
Pieces of a Soviet-era spacecraft, stranded in Earth orbit after a failed launch to Venus 53 years ago, are heading back into the atmosphere this week.
May 02, 2025
A U.S. satellite appears to have maneuvered near two Chinese spacecraft a few days ago, space situational awareness company Comspoc says.
Space Exploration
May 08, 2025
Much of the planned science return from NASA’s Artemis III Moon landing mission with astronauts will be contained in a look at the solar system’s earliest era.
May 07, 2025
Pieces of a Soviet-era spacecraft, stranded in Earth orbit after a failed launch to Venus 53 years ago, are heading back into the atmosphere this week.