But far less attention is given to the psychological and moral inheritance humanity may carry into the Solar System. Will we ...

Europe is investing billions of euros in sovereign space infrastructure but industry leaders are warning that satellites alone will not be enough to secure long-term strategic autonomy. They argue ...

The Autumn 2025 issue of ROOM Space Journal has just been published, delivering another wide-ranging exploration of the ideas, technologies and policies shaping humanity’s future in space. On the ...

Captain James “Jim” Lovell, one of NASA’s most storied astronauts and commander of the ill-fated but heroic Apollo 13 mission, has died aged 97. A veteran of four spaceflights – Gemini 7, Gemini 12, ...

Asgardia the Space Nation has issued its own Declaration of Independence following the 12th meeting of its Supreme Space Council on the Greek island of Corfu this week (13 August 2024). The meeting of ...

A European consortium led by Spanish mission and system integrator Deimos is collaborating to demonstrate the feasibility of developing an inflatable heatshield (IHS) for recovering rocket stages from ...

PLD Space and Exolaunch have announced a joint mission of expanding European access to commercial space opportunities after signing a Strategic Partnership Agreement to provide competitive and ...

As a physicist, avid science fiction reader and experienced research project leader, the author of this primer on the science of interstellar travel thought he was “mentally prepared to think out of ...

Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with prime contractor Ball Aerospace to supply communications equipment for NASA’s NEO Surveyor ...

German aerospace start-up OroraTech, which provides wildfire monitoring via mircosatellites, has expanded its partnership with Spire Space Services to build a constellation of satellites based on the ...

Orbex has announced that construction has begun at Sutherland Spaceport (formerly known as Space Hub Sutherland) in Scotland, making this the first vertical launch spaceport to be built on the UK ...

UK space startup Raven Dynamics has won funding from Innovate UK to begin development of a system that aims to plug a hole in spacecraft reusability by creating bespoke recovery systems and preventing ...