The U.S. Space Force has awarded Rocket Lab $397 million to manufacture a new fleet of “Flatellites” designed to detect and track airborne threats from space.
NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has retired from NASA after 30 years of public service, leaving behind a legacy of accomplishments and leadership including two-time commander of the International Space Station and Chief of the Astronaut Office’s Commercial Crew Branch.
Northrop Grumman plans to take technology built into the HALO module for NASA’s canceled lunar space station and repurpose it to help develop the Artemis moon base.
Virgin Galactic has pushed the resumption of its commercial flights back by a few months, to February 2027. The company hasn’t been to space since June 2024.
The WorldView-3 Earth-observing satellite.
Astranis’ newly announced Perceptor spacecraft will monitor satellite activity in geostationary orbit, a distant and increasingly contested domain.
A radiation-shielding vest aced its Artemis I lunar test in 2022, suggesting that it could protect astronauts on long-duration missions to the moon or Mars.
On Aug. 12, 2005, NASA launched its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission.
SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink global internet satellite constellation to orbit from California on Aug. 11, wrapping the second Starlink launch of the day.
SpaceX started out as a launch company, but it has been transitioning into an artificial intelligence outfit —one that’s poised to make huge profits in the coming years, Elon Musk says.