SpaceX's Dragon approaches the International Space Station By Leonie Chao-Fong, Published by The Guardian, 5 June 2025 World’s richest man says craft, which Nasa relies on to take astronauts to ISS, will be withdrawn from commission Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Thursday said his company SpaceX would begin
Image: Popular Science By Harry Baker, Published by Live Science, 18 May 2025 The number of satellites orbiting our planet is rising fast, thanks to private "megaconstellations" that pose various threats to space exploration and astronomy. But how big has the problem already become? Not so long ago, at the
The International Space Station has been continuously occupied for over 25 years By Laura M., Published by Union Rayo, 25 April 2029 The International Space Station (ISS) is going through its most complicated stage since it began exploring space in 1998. The safety committee that advises NASA has been very
By Leonard David, Published by Space News, 9 October 2024 GOLDEN, Colorado — NASA is faced with the challenge of safely deorbiting, in one fell swoop, over 400 tons of space hardware in a few years. As of now, the agency plans on deorbiting the International Space Station in early
The Starliner spacecraft on NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test is pictured docked to the Harmony module's forward port as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above Egypt's Mediterranean coast: NASA By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, Published by CNN, 6 August 2024 CNN — The launch of SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission, an
The Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module's forward port as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above Egypt's Mediterranean coast: NASA By Richard Luscombe, Published by The Guardian, 4 August 2024 Technical issues and poor comms led many to believe two astronauts are lost in space, but a
ISS. Credit: NASA By Anthony Wood, Published by IGN, 24 July 2024 SpaceX and NASA plan to de-orbit the International Space Station (ISS) using a powerful version of the company's Dragon spacecraft, which will push the orbital outpost onto a precision atmospheric re-entry over an unpopulated ocean region. Earlier this
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 20 Starlink satellites to orbit from California on July 11, 2024. The second stage failed shortly after this picture was taken. (Image credit: SpaceX) By Elizabeth Howell, published by Space.com, 15 July 2024 A Falcon 9 rocket's second stage failed during a SpaceX Starlink satellite
