European companies already have concepts that could feature in the capsule competition By Jonathan Amos, Published by the BBC, 7 November 2023 A robotic capsule to carry cargo to and from the International Space Station is to be developed under a competition run by the European Space Agency. It's anticipated
By Sibu Kumar Tripathi, Published by India Today, 7 November 2023 The mission is part of Nasa's Artemis program, which seeks to return humans to the lunar surface and establish a sustainable presence there. The Peregrine Mission One aims to land on the Moon in early 2024 The mission is
By Andrew Falle, Ewan Wright, Published by The Conversation, 7 November 2023 As the number of satellites in orbit increase, so will the possibilities of space debris. There are currently 8,000 satellites in orbit, but hundreds of thousands more are being proposed. In September 2021, Rwanda announced that it was planning
By Bruce Gagnon, Published on Organising Notes, 7 November 2023 Yesterday twelve people from across the state gathered outside of the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland for a protest during the lunch hour of the Maine Space Conference. About 200 people attended the conference which was intended to
LeoLabs’ Rendezvous and Proximity Dashboard shows one approach made by Cosmos-2562 to Resurs-P3 (left), eventually coming into proximity (right). For almost a year, the objects appeared to maneuver one to two times a week based on in-track distance history. Credit: LeoLabs By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 6 November 2023
By Eric Berger, Published by arsTechnica, 3 November 2023 "It's definitely a money loser. Always has been." Virgin Galactic smoothly completed its sixth human spaceflight in six months on Thursday, continuing an impressive cadence of missions with its VSS Unity spacecraft. This performance has made the company the clear leader in suborbital space tourism.
Smoke and flames billow after Israeli forces struck a high-rise tower in Gaza City, Oct. 7. (Palestinian News & Information Agency, Wafa, for APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0) By Peter Cronau, Declassified Australia Published by Consortium News, 3 November 2023 The Pine Gap U.S. surveillance base located outside of Alice Springs in Australia
By Iwona Majkowska,Published by TS2, 3 November 2023 The United States Space Force is expanding its global reach with the establishment of a new space formation for Europe and Africa. Set to be called SPACE-EURAF, this formation will become the fourth Space Force formation embedded into one of the US
