Three Trump budgets proposed terminating WFIRST/Roman and a fourth proposed a severe late-stage cut. Congress repeatedly funded the observatory through to launch.
Zhuque-3 achieved a controlled orbital-booster touchdown, then toppled during the post-landing phase that separates recovery from true reuse.
SpaceX's 2025 accounts show Starlink-led Connectivity supplied 61% of combined revenue and $4.423 billion of operating income, helping fund Starship's expensive development cycle.
Tianwen-2 has reached a fast-spinning asteroid that Webb estimates at only 18 plus or minus 2 metres wide, just as new spectra and models reopen its proposed lunar origin.
SpaceX and Louisiana have announced a 125,000-acre Starship campus targeting a first flight in 2029, but its $100 billion full-buildout plan and thousands-per-year capacity still depend on vehicle reuse, infrastructure, licensing and coastal review.
A scrubbed launch in the race to find water ice at the Moon's poles could cost China years in its push to establish the first permanent lunar base.
The White House wants American ranges capable of supporting more than 1,000 launches and reentries a year by 2030. The target is broader than the 178-launch baseline and will test ranges, airspace and regulation.
SpaceX's Q2 filing shows AI absorbed 86% of capital expenditure, while chip and memory supply are emerging as the physical limits on its compute build-out.
SpaceX's 2026 S-1 shows that Starlink-driven connectivity supplied 61% of 2025 revenue and the company's only positive segment operating result.
The routinization of spaceflight is reshaping what's possible in orbit—and challenging our intuitions about technological breakthroughs.
A historic milestone collided with the mundane reality of spacewalking: six hours is never quite enough when old wiring fights back.
As rural South Korea emptied of young people, schools found an unexpected solution: grandmothers became first-graders, reclaiming classrooms and literacy in their seventies and eighties.
A forthcoming NASA telescope could revolutionize our understanding of rogue planets—if astronomers can catch their fleeting shadows before they vanish.
The same Martian rock transforms into four different things before scientists can even study it.
The gap between Mars architecture and Mars landing isn't a technical problem—it's a bureaucratic one, and it explains why NASA still won't name a year.
The Red Planet's carbon dioxide cycles through fleeting transformations—frozen snow at the poles, ephemeral frost that vanishes with dawn, and daytime sublimation that skips the liquid phase entirely.
