Ax-2 Takes Off
The second-ever commercial astronaut mission to the ISS has embarked on its journey. Mission recap: Right on schedule at 5:37pm ET yesterday, the Axiom Mission 2 (aka Ax-2) crew of four successfully...
View ArticleEurope Looks to Support Commercial Cargo to LEO
Europe is seeking its own cargo transport to the ISS. Last week, ESA announced that it is looking to support private companies’ development of cargo transport capabilities to the ISS and, in the...
View ArticleBoeing Stands Down from Crewed Starliner Launch
Starliner isn’t yet ready for a crew. Just a few weeks before the Boeing-built capsule was scheduled to deliver its first passengers to the ISS, NASA and Boeing leaders announced that two major issues...
View ArticleFor India, US, ‘The Sky is Not the Limit’
From human spaceflight to responsible use of space, the US and India announced a number of space-related agreements during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the White House on Thursday....
View ArticleVoyager and Airbus Team Up To Replace The ISS
Two major space companies are joining forces to make a commercial successor to the ISS a reality. On Tuesday, Voyager Space and Airbus Defence and Space announced a joint venture to build and operate...
View ArticleSpiderOak Demonstrates Cybersecurity on the ISS
SpiderOak demoed its OrbitSecure cybersecurity platform aboard the ISS last month, the company announced this morning, setting the stage for a future in which data can be securely shared in space by...
View ArticleESA Inks a Starlab Partnership
ESA is exploring its options for life after the ISS. The agency signed an MoU with the team behind Starlab, assuring its support of the LEO commercial space station project in a post-ISS future....
View ArticleA Government Roadmap to Support CLDs
The government needs to consider regulations for commercial space stations as the private sector prepares to take the reins from the ISS, according to a report from the Beyond Earth Institute. Some...
View ArticleA Satellite Conjunction Scare Marks an “Inflection Point” in Collision Risk
A two-ton defunct Soviet spy satellite and a decades-old NASA spacecraft studying the upper atmosphere came within 20 meters of each other this week, sounding alarms at the Pentagon and NASA. Neither...
View ArticleHow the ISS National Lab Went Commercial
The US’ highest scientific laboratory is changing with the times. Michael Roberts is the chief scientific officer of the ISS National Lab, a government-funded organization that helps connect non-NASA...
View ArticleBoeing Starliner’s 14-year Journey To ISS Might End Today
In 2011, astronauts departing the ISS on board the final space shuttle flight left behind a US flag for the next American-launched crew to retrieve and return to Earth. Boeing was once seen as the...
View ArticleNASA Stuck in the Middle of Starliner Contractors’ Valve Fight
The loser of a court battle over valve designs went scorched earth this week, with ValveTech CEO Erin Faville publicly urging NASA to cancel the launch of Boeing’s crewed Starliner “due to the risk of...
View ArticleBoeing Starliner, Safe At Station, Sprung A Few More Helium Leaks
Boeing’s Starliner finally pulled up at America’s orbiting laboratory Thursday afternoon with two very patient astronauts onboard, though not without springing some leaks and losing some thrusters...
View ArticleStarliner Deorbit Slips Again As NASA Launches Full Review
NASA indefinitely postponed Boeing Starliner’s departure from the ISS, marking another setback in a bumpy flight test for the capsule, which is intended to compete with SpaceX’s crew Dragon. The...
View ArticleStarliner Waits At ISS For Thruster Testing
The Starliner crew capsule will hurry up and wait at the ISS for several more weeks while officials conduct Earthside thruster testing in White Sands, NM. Only then will astronauts Butch Willmore and...
View ArticleLawmakers Ask NASA About Risk of Post-ISS Gap
Lawmakers raised concerns on Wednesday about the US leaving a leadership vacuum in LEO after the ISS is retired in 2030. To try to get ahead of the problem, members of the House Science, Space, and...
View ArticleStarliner’s Return Home is on The Horizon
The astronauts who headed to the ISS aboard Starliner over a month ago for a week-long mission finally have a hopeful return-by date to look forward to, NASA and Boeing officials said Wednesday. The...
View ArticleSpaceX is Sending a Dragon to End ISS
NASA put out an $834M hit on the ISS, and SpaceX won the contract. Yesterday, NASA and SpaceX shared new information on how the job will go down. After over 25 years orbiting Earth, performing...
View ArticleNASA and Boeing Debate Starliner While Dragon Stands By
NASA has contingency plans to return astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to Earth on board a SpaceX Dragon capsule, NASA commercial crew manager Steve Stich said, but no final decision has been...
View ArticleNASA Finally Chooses Dragon for Starliner Crew Return
After months of analysis, NASA officials decided that the two astronauts who piloted the Boeing Starliner on a test flight to the ISS will return on a SpaceX Crew Dragon. “It was just too much risk to...
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