The United States is updating its approach to managing spaceflights and reentries, with the goal of expanding the nation’s capabilities to support more than 1,000 rocket launches per year by 2030.
The NASA astronauts who flew around the moon on the Artemis II mission will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor next Friday (Aug. 28).
SpaceX completed a single-engine test-firing of its next Starship spacecraft to prepare for its coming test flight, which will be the first to reach orbit.
SpaceX launched yet another Starlink mission today (Aug. 21), sending 29 more of the broadband satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast.
SpaceX will likely try to make the first-ever catch of its Starship upper stage a few months from now, according to Elon Musk. He had earlier flagged late August as a potential date for the milestone.
On this day in space! Aug. 20, 1977: NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets.
A private spacecraft tasked with boosting the orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory has failed in its mission, meaning the telescope will crash back to Earth later this year.
A pen-sized apparatus called a “laundry gun” could sterilize astronauts’ clothes in space.
A mysterious incident over the South Pacific forced a U.S. Air Force aircraft to turn around on Aug. 18, due to a possible space debris hazard.
On Aug. 19, 1997, the Philippines launched its own satellite for the first time.