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What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching spacecraft and a supercharged upp...

"You absolutely have to have a plan to compete with SpaceX on price."

Russia’s Proton rocket will make its first flight in almost three years on Thursday, as… The post Proton-M to launch Elektro-L No.5 on its final mission wit...

The launch manifest is full this week, with eight launches scheduled from different launch sites… The post Launch Preview: Vulcan to launch USSF-87, SpaceX...

The upcoming launch week, starting on Monday, Dec. 8, is a very busy one as… The post Launch Roundup: China, Russia, Rocket Lab, ULA join SpaceX in flying t...

A busy week ahead will see seven launches from five different rockets from across the… The post Launch Roundup: Soyuz to launch crew; Vega C and Falcon 9 to...

Paris, France (ESA) Nov 14, 2025 Since comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object, was discovered on 1 July 2025, astronomers worldwide have wo...

Since comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object, was discovered on 1 July 2025, astronomers worldwide have worked to predict its trajectory. ESA ha...

From the ESA Blogs.

Between 1 and 7 October, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express spacecraft turned their eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, as it passe...

From the ESA Blogs.

The European Space Agency (ESA) reacted promptly to the discovery of comet 3I/ATLAS on 1 July 2025. Soon after they were alerted to its existence by automate...

This week, a busy launch manifest will see SpaceX launch the Crew-10 and Starlink Group… The post Launch Roundup: SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Firefly set to lau...

From the ESA Blogs.

The European Space Agency has begun work on key technology that will be used for Europe’s second mission to Mars in 2035. To date, Europe has not yet managed...

Slingshot Aerospace predicts Russia’s Luch 2 is now approaching an Intelsat communications satellite

“We heard loud and clear from customers they wanted these services."

Russia successfully launched its relatively new Angara 5 rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Siberia today. Development of the Angara series of rockets a...

The second week of April not only has a long-awaited total solar eclipse but also orbital launches from Russia and the United States. Besides the long-awaite...

Will this leak be blamed on "external impacts" as well?

A radiator on the Russian segment of the International Space Station started leaking coolant Oct. 9, the third such incident involving Russian hardware at th...

Russia’s newest International Space Station module, Nauka, began leaking coolant from a radiator today. This is third Russian radiator to spring a leak in le...

In the early hours of the morning, the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, successfully launched a Proton-M rocket with a Briz-M upper stage carrying the Luch-5...

An insurance claim for a Malaysian satellite that ran out of fuel prematurely remains unsettled more than a year after the incident.

The Russian scientific community is speaking out unanimously against the unauthorized activation of the German eROSITA telescope aboard the Russian Spektr-RG...

"Russian specialists insist on continuing its work."

The upper stage of a failed Angara launch harmlessly reentered Jan. 5, capping another setback in the protracted development of that vehicle.

The troubles with the long-in-development Angara A5 continue.

The third test launch of Russia’s heavy-lift Angara A5 rocket Dec. 27 was marred by an upper stage failure that stranded a dummy payload in a low orbit.

Russia has launched its third and final demonstration flight of the Angara A5 rocket on Monday, December 27.

A Russian rocket stage deployed two television and internet relay satellites into a high-altitude orbit 18 hours after liftoff Monday from the Baikonur Cosmo...

Russia’s Proton-M rocket launched a pair of communications satellites Monday, in a rare outing for Russia’s heavy-lift launch vehicle. Monday’s launch took p...

Two Russian telecommunications satellites will ride a Proton rocket and Breeze M upper stage into a high-altitude orbit after launch Monday from the Baikonur...

"Everything was going well, but there was a human factor."

"Until you exhaust all your contingency plans, you're not really starting to worry."

A Russian module that docked to the International Space Station July 29 started firing its thrusters hours later, briefly knocking the station out of its nor...