Boeing’s Starliner launch to face further delays?
Boeing Starliner’s launch to the International Space Station (ISS) may face further delays as an error found in…
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Virgin Galactic to fly Italian Air Force to space in September
Following a successful Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity flight in July 2021, the space company now targets late September…
Boeing delays Starliner launch after a new system error
Boeing delayed the launch of the Starliner capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) after a new error…
SpaceX Dragon Crew completes new record-breaking 167-day-long mission
Four crew members of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Crew-1 capsule, developed by NASA and Elon Musk’s aerospace manufacturing…
International Space Station suffers from chronic pressure drop
The Russian space agency Roscosmos reported a pressure drop in one isolated part of the Zvezda service module…
Russian Nauka module accidentally deviates ISS from its orbit
The day had been a success. On July 29, 2021, after an eight-day trip to space and almost…
UK CAA becomes the country’s space regulator
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA) became the country’s space regulator, starting from July 29, 2021. The…
Glitch kills Nauka’s engine, scientists fight to save it
Nauka was launched on July 21, 2021, and intended to dock with the International Space Station on July…
Korean Air studies launching space rockets from Boeing 747
The Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) commissioned Korean Air (KAL) and Seoul National University to study the…
Blue Origin successfully carries out maiden space tourism flight
On July 20, 2021, at 9 a.m. EDT, the New Shepard rocket took off, materializing 22 years of…
Bezos’ Blue Origin gets go-ahead for manned space travel
The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reportedly granted Blue Origin a license to carry humans into space…
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two Unity makes successful crewed flight
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity successfully carried a crew of mission specialists and Richard Branson to the edge of…
Keeping satellites in orbit: how does satellite maintenance work?
Nations around the world rely on the proper functioning of multiple satellites currently orbiting the Earth. But these…
Chinese astronauts perform first spacewalk outside new space station
Chinese astronaut tandem performed the country’s first spacewalk outside China’s new orbital space station. Astronauts Liu Boming and…
Branson beats Bezos in the space race as Virgin Galactic is set to fly earlier
Virgin Galactic’s founder Richard Branson announced that he would be traveling to space together with five other crew…
Virgin Orbit launches the first commercial payload to space
Virgin Orbit conducted the first commercial launch of its air-launched LauncherOne rocket.The launch, conducted on June 30, 2021,…
China to start building base station on Mars by 2033
China eyes on sending its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033 with further plans to organize similar…
International Space Station receives solar power upgrade
After three spacewalks, astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough completed the installation of new solar panels outside the…