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The U.S.-Japan summit sold this week as a clean-energy and strategic technology push is, on the actual project list, just as much a fossil buildout.

According to Space.com and NASA mission updates, the SLS-Orion stack is back at Launch Pad 39B ahead of a crewed lunar flyby attempt as early as April 1.

Before Artemis II leaves the ground, NASA ran the numbers twice on what happens when a giant rocket plume meets a wall of water. The agency released details this week of a computational fluid dynamics study using its in-house LAVA framework — Launch, Ascent, and Vehicle Aerodynamics — applied to...

Rocket Lab's Hypersonics Gambit: $190M Contract Turns a Launch Company Into Defense Infrastructure Rocket Lab just signed its biggest launch contract ever — $190 million for 20 hypersonic test flights over four years — and the number almost obscures the real story.

NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft began rolling from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center at 12:20 a.m.

Perovskite Solar Cells Are Finally Ready for Orbit.

Blue Origin's Project Sunrise FCC filing is less about a data center and more about securing orbital slots before someone else does. Blue Origin has filed with the FCC for Project Sunrise, a constellation of up to 51,600 satellites in sun-synchronous orbits between 500 and 1,800 kilometers altitu...

Super Micro Co-Founder Arrested in $2.5 Billion Alleged Chip-Smuggling Operation Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, a co-founder of Super Micro Computer and a fixture in Silicon Valley's AI hardware ecosystem, was arrested Thursday along with two others on charges that they ran a years-long scheme to diver...

ESA is buying its own ride to space — and taking the wheel. The European Space Agency announced March 19 that member states have endorsed a project called EPIC (ESA Provided Institutional Crew), a chartered SpaceX Crew Dragon mission set to visit the International Space Station in early 2028.

Kayhan Space is making a bet that orbital safety data is about to become financial infrastructure.