Satellite News

A second consortium has plans to possibly boost the Hubble Space Telescope and extend its science mission, after SpaceX raised the idea in 2022.

Kathy Lueders, who retired as NASA’s human spaceflight chief at the end of April, will help SpaceX develop its giant new Starship deep-space transportation system.

The four-person Ax-2 will launch at 5:37 p.m. ET on May 21 and arrive at the International Space Station about 16 hours later, if all goes according to plan.

Follow along with Axiom Space’s Ax-2 mission to the International Space Station, the second-ever all-private mission to the orbital lab.

A NASA scientific balloon flight was terminated Sunday (May 14) after the craft developed an irreparable leak about a day and a half into flight.

Stratolaunch’s giant Roc airplane dropped a prototype of the company’s Talon hypersonic vehicle in mid-air for the first time during a test flight on Saturday (May 13).

An Earth-based telescope spotted Europe’s JUICE spacecraft as it zooms toward Jupiter to study the giant planet’s mysterious, icy ocean moons.

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a rare main asteroid belt comet, discovering water around the object that could help reveal how Earth became a wet planet teeming with life.