Trend or aberration? Russia is launching foreign satellites again
Major space industry players are still keeping Russia at arm's length.
Space
SpaceX making more than 1,000 changes to next Starship rocket
"Hot staging" and engine upgrade to debut on SpaceX's next Starship test flight.
NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag—and it’s colossal
"It is better to not do it than to torch the whole science community."
Rocket Report: Electron scoops up Virgin launch, ULA flies first 2023 mission
"In microlaunchers that balance is on a knife’s edge."
The bad blood between Musk and Zuckerberg began with a bang
"I'm deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX's launch failure destroyed our satellite."
After tough start this year, United Launch Alliance can turn things around tonight
"These launches place critical capabilities into orbit for our nation."
It appears that Roscosmos really is recruiting soldiers for the Ukraine War
"State corporation Roscosmos calls on you to join the Uran volunteer battalion."
Weirdly, a NASA official says fixed-price contracts do the agency “no good”
"What really makes me worried is that I think it shows where the heart of the agency is."
Rocket Report: China addresses falling rocket debris, Vulcan launch slipping
FAA is "taking a finer pencil to the way operations are run and managed."
For the first time in decades, Congress seems interested in space-based solar power
"We already know from early research that it is possible."
Vulcan aces engine test, but upper stage anomaly will delay launch for a while
"Working corrective action and retest."
Satellites keep photobombing space images. Astronomers need a fix
A new technique could aid Hubble Space Telescope users.
Megaplume of water vapor erupting on Enceladus caught by Webb Telescope
Enceladus' rapid orbit and large geysers spread water widely near Saturn.
Testing antibacterial surfaces on the International Space Station
Humans breathe out a lot of microbes that can make homes on surfaces inside the ISS.
Boeing hit with a lawsuit over alleged “theft” of SLS rocket tools
"Without the engines installed and fitted perfectly, the rocket could not launch."
