Space & Aerospace

The Battery Industry Has a Favorite Word.

South Korea’s Innospace has closed the books on its first orbital launch failure, and the answer is not a good look for the company’s ground operations.

Kratos Just Became the Ground System for Half the U.S.

New research from Princeton reveals the window to prevent catastrophic orbital debris cascading has shrunk from 164 days in 2018 to just 5.5 days today.

NASA moves its Artemis 2 moon rocket to Launch Pad 39B tonight, targeting an April 1 liftoff that would return humans to lunar orbit for the first time since 1972. Engineers are targeting 8 p.m.

The Middle East conflict is creating new vulnerabilities in the semiconductor supply chain, with Qatar's helium production offline and bromine shipments from Israel at risk, threatening chip manufacturing at a time of unprecedented AI-driven demand. Qatar's helium plant at Ras Laffan, responsibl...

Anduril Industries is acquiring ExoAnalytic Solutions, a space surveillance company that operates the world's largest commercial telescope network, to double its space sector workforce and strengthen its position for the Pentagon's Golden Dome missile defense program. The acquisition, announced ...

The orbital data center race is heating up, and a 12-person startup in Redmond, Washington just made its move. Starcloud (formerly Lumen Orbit) filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission on March 13 seeking authorization for up to 88,000 satellites — a constellation designed...

# NASA OIG Flags Gaps in Artemis Moon Lander Safety as Schedule Slips NASA's own watchdog says the agency has work to do before putting astronauts on the Moon. The NASA Office of Inspector General released a report March 10 finding "gaps" in the agency's approach to managing risks for the Space...

NASA's Artemis 2 mission is go for an April 1 launch, the agency confirmed following a two-day flight readiness review, but Administrator Jared Isaacman signals more program changes are coming.

Images from NASA's DART mission have revealed the first direct visual proof that asteroids are pelting their moons with slow-moving debris — "cosmic snowballs" drifting from parent asteroids to their smaller companions.