Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025
NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is returning to Antarctica for a new long-duration campaign featuring two zero-pressure balloon launches from a site near the U.S. National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf. The flights will carry the Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) and the General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS), both focused on high-energy astrophysi

London, UK (SPX) Dec 06, 2025
Going from brick-and-mortar gambling halls to digital apps didn't just tweak the industry; it completely flipped it on its head. We used to have to get dressed up, drive out, and physically walk onto a casino floor to place a wager.

The company founded by SpaceX veterans is opening a solid rocket motor manufacturing campus in New Mexico

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Orbex received far less funding than the other four ESA European Launcher Challenge companies after the U.K.

China could be without emergency launch capability to Tiangong space station for months, leaving no rapid-response option for any new crisis following the Shenzhou-20 incident.

Projections for the booming space economy often come with trillion-dollar headlines, but the lion’s share of near-term revenue looks destined for just a handful of massive constellations with the funds to invest in vertical integration.

Projections for the booming space economy often come with trillion-dollar headlines, but the lion’s share of near-term revenue looks destined for just a handful of massive constellations with the funds to invest in vertical integration.

Washington DC (UPI) Dec 4, 2025
The United States has entered a consequential new era of competition with China in space - one that lawmakers said will shape global power, economic security and military advantage for generations. House Science, Space and Technology Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chairman Mike Haridopolos, R-Fla., posed the issue during a hearing Thursday as a question for the future. "Will huma

Washington DC (UPI) Dec 4, 2025
The Center for Advancement of Science in Space will continue to manage the International Space Station National Laboratory for at least another five years, CASIS announced on Thursday. CASIS has managed the ISS National Lab since 2011, after Congress created it to enable researchers to build a "robust market" in low Earth orbit by leveraging the unique environment that exists in space, CAS