NASA Chooses Axiom Space for Fourth Private Mission to the ISS
Axiom Space will fly a fourth crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as NASA once again selects the private space venture for another mission to low Earth orbit. Taking…
Voyager Space and Airbus to Collaborate on Commercial Successor to the ISS
An artist’s depiction of the Starlab commercial space station. Illustration: Voyager Spacee Colorado-based company Voyager Space is collaborating with Europe’s Airbus to build a commercial space station in low Earth…
Power Outage at Mission Control Temporarily Disrupts NASA’s Link to ISS
On Tuesday, July 25, a power outage occurred at NASA’s Mission Control in Houston, leading to a temporary disruption in communication with the International Space Station. Taking out the Trash…
These Companies Want to Beam Space-Based Solar Power to Earth
Virtus Solis Space Based Solar Power OverviewAccording to a video published in March by Virtus, a satellite constellation operating in Molniya orbit, or a highly elliptical orbit, will beam the…
Watch NASA’s new solar array unfurl on the space station
A view of the new rollout solar array unfolding after NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg successfully installed it to the 1B power channel on June 15, 2023. NASA…
New space record set for crew in Earth orbit
For a brief time on Tuesday, there were more people in Earth orbit than ever before. With 11 people aboard the International Space Station (ISS) until just a few hours…
Watch a cosmonaut hurl a piece of ISS garbage into the abyss
Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin embarked on a spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) at 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday to relocate an experiment airlock from the…
How to watch Friday’s historic spacewalk at the ISS
NASA astronaut Steve Bowen and his United Arab Emirates counterpart Sultan Alneyadi are making final preparations for a spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, April 28. Alneyadi…
NASA and Boeing reveal new date for first crewed Starliner flight
NASA and Boeing had been hoping to perform the first crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft next month, but on Wednesday they announced the mission will now take place no…
A crew capsule just landed on Earth. But why was it empty?
Soyuz spacecraft regularly bring home crew from the International Space Station (ISS), but the one that returned on Tuesday had three empty seats. In what’s thought to be the first…