Since veteran astronaut and fantastic photographer Don Pettit returned from his record-setting fifth expedition to space in April, he has been regularly sharing photos he captured aboard the ISS. His most recent one is a remarkable…
Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has announced that a government contract has been struck with NPO Lavochkin to create a lunar power station by 2036. It is not immediately clear in the Roscosmos statement if that power station would be…
RUSSIA has unveiled bonkers plans to build a nuclear power station on the moon within the next decade. The ambitious project is intended to supply energy for Russia’s lunar space programme and a joint research station with China. Russia…
According to the patent, habitable modules would rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity for crew by producing an outward-pushing centrifugal force.
Early risers across North America and Europe may spot a bright, silent light gliding across the Christmas sky — and it just happens to coincide with an ISS flyby.
Oleg Orlov, Director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems at the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), announced that the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) will include the modules that make up the Russian Orbital Segment of ISS.
THE race to replace the ageing ISS is heating up with a unique contender that has a few tricks up its sleeve. A group of engineers have come up with an inflatable space station to create shape-shifting rooms that change to suit visitor…
Hungarian communications provider 4iG has agreed to invest $100 million in U.S.-based space station developer Axiom Space, broadening its footprint in the space industry amid a broader push toward vertically integrated capabilities in the…
A Starlink satellite suffered an in-orbit anomaly that caused a loss of communication and rapid orbital decay. SpaceX said the satellite vented its propulsion tank at about 418 kilometres altitude and is expected to fully burn up in…