It’s unclear when Boeing will be able to send more astronauts to the International Space Station, a new NASA audit warns. Technical issues with Boeing Starliner’s spacecraft, across two uncrewed flights and a two-astronaut test mission known as Crew Flight Test (CFT), come under scrutiny in a new report about NASA‘s Commercial Crew Program from…
A restless Earth-facing sunspot unleashed a powerful X-class solar flare on June 30, triggering radio blackouts across parts of North America. The X1.1 solar flare erupted from sunspot region AR4479, peaking at 4:50 p.m. EDT (2050 GMT) according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The intense burst of X-rays released during the eruption reached Earth…
On 1st July, the UK Ministry of Defence released the Defence Investment Plan. Based on the 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR), the plan covers the directions envisioned for investment across major warfighting domains, including space. MoD writes that this document “is intended to demonstrate to Parliament and the public how increasing defenceinvestment is being spent.”…
Notice ID: Coming Soon NASA’s Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate is seeking innovative ideas from industry partners through a new solicitation appendix under the NextSTEP-3 Omnibus Broad Agency Announcement. Appendix B: Moon Base Demonstrations calls for industry-led demonstrations, risk reduction, and special topic activities that enable an enduring human presence on the lunar surface. NASA’s Moon…
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab’s chief executive says the company’s acquisition of Iridium was the “logical next step” in his ambitions to tap into the lucrative space services market. Rocket Lab announced June 29 it reached an agreement with Iridium to acquire the company for $54 per share in cash and stock, valuing Iridium at $8…
What’s more, sunlight in summertime reaches the ground at an angle perpendicular to the surface — it comes straight at the ground. In winter, sunlight comes in at a sharper angle. This spreads the Sun’s light across a larger area, delivering less light — and therefore less warmth — per square meter. The differences in…
This is the largest high-resolution photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light. It was taken on 23 March 2025 by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. Packed with more than 60 million stars, this image opens the door for scientists to confirm the existence of any exoplanet found in…
Enabling & Support 07/04/2026 1542 views 24 likes ESA’s newest deep space antenna, DSA 4 (also called NNO-3), is now fully online – representing a powerful new addition that strengthens the Agency’s reach across the Solar System and boosts the capacity and resilience of its global Estrack network for communicating with spacecraft in deep space….
Orion and Gateway in Lunar Orbit. Credit: NASA Today, Interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy reset NASA’s Moon program. Sean Duffy announced today that he was re-opening NASA’s HLS contract. As a justification, Duffy stated that SpaceX’s Starship lunar lander was behind schedule and its delays put at risk NASA landing astronauts on the Moon by…
While I’ve been going through early extraterrestrial ideas like those of Ronald Bracewell I’ve run back into that most unpronounceable of stellar objects, Przybylski’s Star. This one is worth a return look and I was reminded of it by author and futurist John Michael Godier on his Event Horizon podcast. I do few interviews but…