The independent study team plans to spend nine months collecting unclassified UAP data from civilian government agencies, commercial entities and other sources and recommend a path forward for future analysis.
New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected second trail of debris emerging from Dimorphos, the asteroid target for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission impact on Sept. 26.
Back on Earth from a 170-day mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s Crew-4 quartet of U.S. and European astronauts have some recommendations for developers of the commercial low-Earth-orbit successors to the ISS that is now in its final decade of planned operations.
A six-member team—all from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland—will review SpaceX’s unsolicited proposal to send a Dragon capsule to the Hubble Space Telescope to boost its orbit, among possible other services.
NASA is looking to mid-November for the resumption of planned spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) following the unexpected appearance of moisture on the helmet visor of European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer at the conclusion of a March 23 excursion.
The nonprofit Space Center Houston and NASA’s Johnson Space Center have unveiled a Facilities Master Plan to help hasten a global and commercial rush to take part in the agency’s blueprint to establish a permanent human presence at the Moon in preparation for human expeditions to Mars.
Recovering from its second launch hiatus, OneWeb Satellites is poised to begin adding to its global broadband constellation in low Earth orbit, this time with launch services provided by the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization.
Northrop Grumman has contracted with Mynaric to provide laser communications terminals for 14 satellites as part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program.
Luxembourg could become the second European operating base for Virgin Orbit’s horizontal satellite launch as part of proposals to provide responsive launch services for NATO and European allies.
Satellite launch startup Orbex has secured an extra £40 million ($45.2 million) in funding from investors that will enable the company to scale up its operations to be ready for its first vertical launch from the UK.
Since its launch, TESS is credited with the discovery of more than 266 extrasolar planets and thousands of additional candidates that are currently under assessment for verification.
After a two-day weather delay, NASA’s quartet of Crew-4 astronauts departed the International Space Station aboard their Freedom SpaceX Dragon capsule on Oct. 14 for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, ending a 170-day mission to the orbital science laboratory.
The Pentagon is in discussions with SpaceX about the future of Starlink satellite internet connectivity in Ukraine after the company threatened to end the service if the Defense Department does not pick up the bill, while the military is also reaching out to alternative satellite communications providers.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite—launched nearly 4 1/2 years ago to search for extrasolar planets—has suspended science operations in response to a suspected flight computer reset, a mission status update says.
With business partnerships sweeping across the new space and commercial space marketplace–for survival, growth or both–relative newcomer Sierra Space has opened its own corporate venture capital (VC) office to facilitate strategic tie-ups with other space upstarts.
NASA and SpaceX on Oct. 13 delayed the departure of the Crew-4 Dragon Freedom astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) for a second day due to unfavorable weather in the recovery zones.
Japan’s Space Cotan Ltd. and the Hokkaido town of Taiki have begun the expansion of Hokkaido Spaceport (HOSPO), part of its vision to create a space Silicon Valley in Japan.
