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Satellite operator SES says it has regained the ability to communicate with AMC-9, a 14-year old satellite in the company’s fleet that stopped listening to commands June 17, but that the satellite co…
The House Armed Services Committee has voted to create a US "Space Corps", which would become a new branch of the armed forces and incorporate the current space missions of the US Air Forc…
SpaceX has successfully launched and landed a recycled Falcon 9 rocket for the second time. The rocket’s first stage — the 14-story-tall core that houses the fuel and the rocket’s main engines — touc…
They say everything’s sweeter the second time around, and that seems to be the case for SpaceX’s plans to colonize Mars. Last year, Musk unveiled his plans to colonize the Red Planet and make it fit …
SpaceX is getting ready to launch a used Falcon 9 rocket for the second time ever. The California-based company rolled a preflown Falcon 9 first stage into a hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center…
China is making "preliminary" preparations to send a man to the moon, state media cited a senior space official as saying, the latest goal in China's ambitious lunar exploration program…
China has released an update on the fate of its orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab, which in March 2016 was revealed to be no longer functioning and would be making an uncontrolled reentry into the Earth&…
Today, SpaceX will become the first private company to launch an orbital spacecraft twice. Only government agencies have done this before. The company will be launching a Dragon spacecraft on a Falco…
NASA may have pushed back launching manned Mars missions but it just moved up an exploratory mission to a unique asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Dubbed 19 Psyche, the asteroid i…
China has finally announced that it plans to visit Mars by 2020, along with being one of the first nations to walk on the "far side" of the moon. In an unusual video discussion with the BB…
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has recently found a remarkable covert ice deposit under Utopia Planitia on the Red Planet that is expected to comprise as much water as Lake Superior, the la…
This small satellite weighs only 64 grams and will be launched on a four-hour sub-orbital mission from the NASA Wallops Island (Wallops Flight Facility) On June 21, 2017. Once the satellite is posit…
According to the recent new, NASA scientists have revealed , THE International Space Station (ISS) is to be demolished and sent crashing towards the Earth in a “huge fireworks display”. Finance for …
An experimental US Air Force space plane called the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has landed after a record-breaking 718 days in orbit, but with military officials keeping tight-lipped about the…
