In November 2013, the Indian Space Research Organisation launched its Mars Orbiter Mission from Sriharikota on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
On 17 April 2026, mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California sent commands to switch off the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment…
There is a particular kind of adult who, in 2026, still navigates by memory and feel rather than by GPS.
House appropriators added more than a billion dollars to the Space Launch System above NASA's own request and forbade the agency from redirecting it, even as NASA's inspector general has called the program's $4.1 billion per-flight cost unsustainable.
Iridium Communications has agreed to acquire the remaining 61% of Aireon, its satellite-based aircraft-tracking subsidiary, in a $367 million deal that is…
Cowboy Space, the orbital infrastructure startup founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to deploy up to 20,000 satellites carrying data center hardware in low Earth orbit.
There is a particular set of life skills that adults who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s tend to possess by default, and that adults who have grown up in the…
Christina Koch said it on Saturday April 11, 2026, in an auditorium at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, after the four members of Artemis II had…
Lunar missions are running into a navigation wall. Landers heading for the south pole this decade cannot rely on GPS, the Moon has no positioning constellation…
Scientists in Germany have reported the first direct detection of upper-atmospheric pollution linked to the reentry of a specific piece of space debris, after…
JWST has just resolved a galaxy as it existed 800 million years after the Big Bang, even as NEO Surveyor — the only NASA mission Congress has required by statute — remains decades behind its asteroid-catalog deadline. The gap inside a single agency is the lesson.
NASA imaged the Kuskokwim's spring 2026 ice breakup at Aniak in clean weekly cadence from orbit; one year earlier the EPA had clawed back a $20 million flood-mitigation grant to Kipnuk, downstream on the same river. The asymmetry between federal observation and federal adaptation is now legible on a single waterway.
The two largest European satellite operators are abandoning planned geostationary satellites and pushing the capital toward low Earth orbit, a clear signal that the GEO build-out era is winding down even at its most committed players.
There is a particular kind of fatigue people describe about the rooms they live in, and they often cannot name it.
There is a particular kind of quiet that settles around some retired men. It shows up at family lunches, on park benches in the morning, at extended-family gatherings where they used to hold court.
You've been at this dinner. There are eight people around the table. Three of them are talking over each other.
