Hyten: "You look at our on-orbit capabilities, they're basically the same as they were 10 years ago"

COLORADO SPRINGS – The space sector is likely to benefit from increased defense spending by NATO allies, European military leaders said at the Space Symposium.

When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, many in the space industry assumed there would be immediate changes at NASA, particularly in its human spaceflight programs.

Image: New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes

Colorado Springs — Within days of each other in late February and early March, the Aerospace Corp.

This new snapshot from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express deftly captures the two distinct faces of Mars: ridged and rugged versus smooth and unmarked.

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 8, 2025
The final piece of an advanced series of weather satellites officially began operating Tuesday to help provide better forecasts on Earth and in space, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. GOES-19 satellite replaces GOES-16 to cover the GOES East orbit 22,236 miles above Earth's equator. It also completes NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satelli

Washington DC (UPI) Apr 8, 2025
A Soyuz rocket with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian cosmonauts on board docked with the International Space Station early Tuesday, following a three-hour, 10-minute flight from launch in Kazakhstan. Capture between the rocket and the orbiting space laboratory was confirmed at 4:57 a.m. EDT over western Russian. The spacecraft with its three crew members on board launched