9+ hour, 42+ min ago   (651+ words) A Chinese satellite breakup has created a new debris field in a rare orbit where fragments may remain for centuries. A Chinese reconnaissance satellite has broken apart in a rare high-altitude orbit, creating dozens of tracked debris fragments that may…...

10+ hour, 47+ min ago   (774+ words) But what exactly is rocket science? Rocket science is the combination of physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, and materials science used to design rockets and spacecraft and send them safely through the atmosphere and into space. And surprisingly, the basic…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (406+ words) Spanish aerospace company PLD Space has unveiled its new Miura 9 rocket during a visit to its Elche facilities by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. The Miura 9 represents a significant evolution of the company’s Miura 5 launcher, which is expected to make its…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (180+ words) SpaceX launched the classified USSF-153 mission for the U.S. Space Force from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sept. 10, 2026, at 11:42 a.m. EDT. The payload details and destination remain undisclosed following the rocket's liftoff from the central coast. The Falcon 9 webcast concluded…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (173+ words) Sep 10, 2026, 19:21 ET HOUSTON, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Venus Aerospace today officially opened its new propulsion test stand at the Houston Spaceport, adding critical infrastructure to support the continued development and maturation of its rotating detonation rocket engine technology. The test stand was…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (54+ words) SpaceX rocket booster lands on barge in ocean amid classified Space Force mission Fox News SpaceX rocket booster lands on barge in ocean amid classified Space Force mission The booster for a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a classified mission for…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (555+ words) EnduroSat will build a 40-sat constellation for TrustPoint, the startup building a commercial GNSS service, the companies announced today. The satellites will be built and delivered in three batches, with the first set to launch NET 2027. Depending on the supply…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (519+ words) △ The Invisible Eye: The Birth of Radar Radar is a technology that transmits radio waves and analyzes the signals reflected from an object to determine its distance and direction. Although its scientific roots reach back to the late nineteenth century,…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (369+ words) Here's what makes that number mean something: liquid bi-propellant rockets — two separate liquid fuels mixed and combusted in real time — are genuinely hard. Not hobby-shop hard. SpaceX-Merlin hard. Most student teams don't attempt them. Waterloo has been building them for…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (263+ words) Curtin University study finds SpaceX hardware leakage up to 10,000 times stronger than the cosmic signals SKA-Low must detect The numbers tell the story bluntly: “Comparable to the brightest natural radio sources in the sky.” — Steven Tingay, Curtin University, on Starlink’s…...