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The European Space Agency says its Ramses spacecraft, being built to meet the asteroid Apophis, has been switched on for the first time as an assembled spacecraft, at its prime contractor's cleanroom…
The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, skimmed the outer edge of Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 28, 2026, passing 8,640 kilometers above the Indian Ocean at 11:45 UTC and using…
NASA published a radar time-lapse on Sept. 24 showing lava spreading from the northern crater of Krasheninnikov, a pair of volcanoes on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. The 17 frames came from the…
Researchers at two Chinese Academy of Sciences observatories have proposed a way for a single laser ranging station on the ground to read a satellite's identity and its orientation at the same time,…
The Roscosmos Progress 96 cargo spacecraft docked to the space-facing port of the International Space Station's Poisk module at 9:44 a.m. EDT on Saturday, Sept. 19, NASA's space station blog…
A Roscosmos Progress 96 freighter lifted off toward the International Space Station on Sept. 16 with nearly three tons of food, fuel and cargo aboard, NASA said. The spacecraft carries no crew; it…
NASA says its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is carrying enough propellant for at least 22 years of science operations, more than double the 10-year fuel budget the observatory was designed…
The European Space Agency launched two Earth observation satellites on a single Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, and says its mission control center in Germany has received a…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched three more O3b mPOWER satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sept. 13, and the satellite operator SES says the flight completes the broadband…
Two spacecraft built by Impulse Space closed to less than 200 meters of each other in low Earth orbit in July and photographed one another as they passed, the California company said in an account…
Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket from its complex in New Zealand on Sept. 11 and placed a single Earth observation satellite into a circular orbit 500 kilometers above the planet. The company…
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit and deployed its payloads on Sept. 5, the vehicle's second flight and its first carrying satellites. The company said liftoff came at 10:12 p.m. CEST…