Crew-12 launches to ISS
Friday, 13 February 2026 11:53
A Falcon 9 launched a new crew to the International Space Station Feb.
Vast wins ISS private astronaut mission
Friday, 13 February 2026 11:39
NASA has selected commercial space station company Vast to fly a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station in 2027.
Highlights of Sophie Adenot’s launch to the ISS
Friday, 13 February 2026 11:00
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Watch the highlights of the launch of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot to the International Space Station (ISS) on Crew-12. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA, on Friday 13 February 2026 at 10:15 GMT/11:15 CET (5:15 local time).
Sophie flies as mission specialist. The other Crew-12 members are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, respectively commander and pilot of the mission, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev, mission specialist.
The French ESA astronaut is the first of her class, the Hoppers, to fly. Sophie has chosen
NASA, SpaceX shoot for predawn Crew-12 launch with sonic boom possible
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China’s iSpace launch firm raises record $729 million for reusable rockets
Friday, 13 February 2026 09:58
Chinese launch firm iSpace has secured a record D++ funding round to accelerate its reusable rocket development efforts and expand its industrial footprint.
Launch of Crew-12 to the ISS
Friday, 13 February 2026 09:30
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Watch the liftoff of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot to the International Space Station (ISS), aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre. Sophie flies as mission specialist. The other Crew-12 members are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, respectively commander and pilot of the mission, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev, mission specialist.
NASA crew set for flight to ISS
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Earth from Space: Sending love from above
Friday, 13 February 2026 08:00
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For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission sends love from space, capturing the heart-shaped oasis of Faiyum, just south of Cairo, Egypt. NASA Stennis proves water systems ready for Artemis IV upper stage trials
Friday, 13 February 2026 05:38
A major water system activation at the Thad Cochran Test Stand (B-2) has moved NASA Stennis Space Center a step closer to Green Run testing of the exploration upper stage for the Artemis IV mission. The Jan. 30 activation exercised new cooling hardware and pushed the site's high pressure industrial water network to full capacity in preparation for operating the more powerful upper stage.
T China verifies Long March 10 booster splashdown and crew escape in key lunar test
Friday, 13 February 2026 05:38
China has carried out a pivotal flight test of a prototype rocket and crew spacecraft for its planned manned lunar landing program, validating key ascent, abort, and recovery technologies needed for future missions to the Moon.
In the demonstration, a prototype of the new-generation Mengzhou crew spacecraft was mounted on a prototype first-stage booster of the Long March 10 heavy-lift rock Stoke Space expands Series D funding to $860M to drive Nova launch development
Friday, 13 February 2026 05:38
Stoke Space Technologies has expanded its previously announced Series D financing round to a total of 860 million dollars as it advances work on its fully and rapidly reusable Nova launch vehicle and related infrastructure at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The company, based in Kent, Washington, is developing medium lift launch vehicles designed for high cadence operations to sup Ariane 6 four booster launcher completes on schedule mission
Friday, 13 February 2026 05:38
Europe's Ariane 6 launcher has completed its first mission using a four booster configuration, delivering a full suite of payloads to orbit in a demonstration of its maximum performance variant.
Designated flight VA267, the mission lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, during a launch window between 16:45 and 17:13 GMT, carrying 32 satellites for Amazon's Leo constel Chang'e-6 farside samples reshape lunar impact history
Friday, 13 February 2026 05:38
Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the CAS Aerospace Information Research Institute, and collaborating institutions have used samples from China's Chang'e-6 mission to revise the long-standing lunar crater chronology model. The new analysis relies on material collected from the far side of the Moon and complementary remote sensing im Mars' "Young" Volcanoes Were More Complex Than Scientists Once Thought
Friday, 13 February 2026 05:38
What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep beneath the surface, where magma moves, evolves, and changes over long periods of time. To fully understand how volcanoes work, scientists study the volcanic products that erupt at the surface, which can reveal the hidden magmatic systems feeding volcanic activity.
New research published r ESA signs Ramses spacecraft and cubesat deals for Apophis flyby
Friday, 13 February 2026 05:38
On 10 February 2026 the European Space Agency signed a contract with OHB Italia to develop the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety, known as Ramses, securing the next phase of Europes dedicated mission to asteroid Apophis ahead of its close Earth flyby in 2029. Launching in 2028, Ramses will rendezvous with the near-Earth asteroid before its rare encounter with our planet, providing detailed