The Russian Aerospace Forces conducted the first operational launch of a light Angara 1.2 rocket from Plesetsk spaceport in the northern part of the country on April 29.
French satellite startup Prométhée has contracted with NanoAvionics to build a hyperspectral nanosatellite demonstrator. The ProtoMéthée-1 will be based on NanoAvionics’ 16U nanosatellite bus M16P and would be a forerunner to plans to launch a 20-satellite constellation by 2025, Prométhée said on April 29.
Axiom Space has signed an agreement to provide a United Arab Emirates professional astronaut with a six-month tour of duty aboard the International Space Station.
During an April 28 spacewalk, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev enabled the first motion of the European Space Agency’s 37-ft. robot arm, a multipurpose manipulator that was launched to the International Space Station in July 2021 as part of the Russian Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
Science missions using the Boeing 747SP-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy airborne observatory will end in September 2022 after the U.S. National Academies assessed the science output no longer justifies its operating costs.
NASA’s SpaceX-launched Crew-4 Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station late April 27, delivering four U.S. and European astronauts to the orbiting laboratory.
Roscosmos has presented an updated version of the future Sfera multi-satellite orbital constellation after the Russian government approved it in early April.
The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate has announced that it is developing a multi-energy electron source capable of emitting a beam of electrons at dozens of energies simultaneously.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered a Crew Dragon capsule into orbit on April 27, sending four astronauts on their way to the International Space Station.
Several venture capital firms and the related office at Lockheed Martin have teamed to invest $27 million in X-Bow Systems, an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based additive manufacturing startup targeting production of solid rocket energetics.
Hours after a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule returned from a privately financed sortie to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA cleared the company to proceed with a launch attempt at 3:52 a.m. EDT on April 27 to deliver the next resident crew to the orbital outpost.
Capella Space has raised $97 million through a Series C financing round that it plans to spend on further developing its automated image analysis software and next-generation satellites.
NASA is preparing to return the Space Launch System Moon rocket and Orion capsule to the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on April 25, following a pair of abbreviated tanking tests at the launchpad.
NASA has a strategy to secure the second of two circular solar arrays that failed to fully deploy and latch following the launch of the $989 million Lucy mission.
A prolonged, privately financed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) ended on April 25 with the return of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule chartered by Houston-based Axiom Space.
The four-member Axiom-1 private astronaut mission departed the International Space Station on April 24, ending the first U.S.-backed commercial flight to the orbital outpost and clearing the docking port for the arrival of the next ISS resident crew later this week.
Dr. Bernard A. Harris, a retired NASA astronaut and flight surgeon and the first African-American to conduct a spacewalk, has been inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame.
Just under two years after joining Aerojet Rocketdyne as chief operating officer (COO), Amy Gowder is leaving the embattled rocket and propulsion supplier “to accept another business opportunity.”
Planet Labs has unveiled its next constellation of 32 Earth observation satellites, the Pelican fleet, which will provide images with up to 30 cm of resolution and improved revisit rates.
