Space

The 2020s will be the decade of the satellite, according to a new Euroconsult forecast.

With NASA’s Artemis I Orion spacecraft back on Earth, the space agency can began to look ahead with a sharper focus to Artemis II.

The 25-day, uncrewed Artemis I mission ended exactly 50 years to the day after the Apollo 17 Moon landing.

"We are wrapping this mission up,” says Mike Sarafin, NASA’s Artemis I mission manager, told the agency’s final planned pre-return news briefing.

The U.S. space agency is collecting data from the Orion capsule as it prepares to return to Earth after 25 days in space.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for ways to quickly deliver spacecraft beyond geosynchronous orbit.

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has added two samples of windblown broken rock and dust, also known as regolith, to its growing collection of rock core samples.

Virgin Orbit had been eyeing a launch window starting Dec. 14 for its first UK flight of LauncherOne.

Astroscale Japan and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have launched a joint feasibility study of satellite refueling services.

SpaceX and Rocket Lab have unveiled departments and services for national security clients.

Slingshot Aerospace has raised $41.85 million to build out its Earth-based network of orbit-watching telescopes.

The U.S. Commerce Department has awarded seven contracts to companies providing space situational awareness services.

NASA’s Artemis I Orion capsule still has two of its four primary mission objectives yet to achieve.

Sierra Space will provide its new-generation, low-cost solar power arrays for a constellation of low Earth orbit satellite buses.

NASA’s Artemis I Orion crew capsule carried out its second and final major maneuver for departing the Moon on Dec. 5.

The iROSA they installed was one of two delivered aboard SpaceX's 26th NASA-contracted resupply mission.

Successful execution of DRO departure burn is the first of two major maneuvers needed to place the uncrewed capsule on course toward a Pacific Ocean splashdown.

Shifting space debris tracking to the Commerce Department will free Spacecom up to focus on the “why” of movement in space.

NASA has awarded ICON of Austin, Texas, a $57.2 million contract to develop a 3D printer for building lunar infrastructures such as landing pads, roads and habi

Pleased with the progress of the Artemis I mission Orion/Space Launch System at its midpoint, mission managers have decided to add seven new test objectives focused on learning more about the spacecraft’s response to the deep-space thermal environment and propulsion system performance.

The rocket carrying astronauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu blasted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 11:08 p.m. local time on Nov. 29.

Oberon will form part of a wider ISR constellation called Istari, the UK’s planned billion-pound eye in low Earth orbit.

President Yoon Suk Yeol has announced space exploration targets with an ambition to reach the Moon by 2032 and Mars by 2045.

China is also welcoming astronauts from other countries to enter its Tiangong space station and conduct experiments there.