The fortunes that could be made from small satellites remain highly uncertain, satellite industry analysts caution.

Combinations of soil-borne chemistry and ultraviolet radiation from the Sun could be significant barriers to Martian organic activity and habitability, researchers’ findings show.

NASA’s vision of future human deep space explorers working hand in hand with robots has achieved a milestone through the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Space Robotics Challenge.

Failure of a Long March 5 launcher on the type’s second mission has dealt a possibly severe blow to China’s space program, at least casting doubt over the timing of planned missions that rely on the rocket.

This strategy also would feature less chance of introducing terrestrial contamination, reduced risk and perhaps a more manageable cost...

The launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) was the second for SpaceX in three days. SpaceX then landed the first-stage booster on a barge in the Pacific Ocean.

Thales Alenia Space is to take a “minority stake” in Airstar Aerospace, a company with know-how in balloon envelopes, in a bid to advance its Stratobus telecommunications airship project.

Virgin Orbit, the newly created small satellite launch Virgin Group company, is nearing completion of the first “pathfinder” LauncherOne test rocket.