Musk soars while Bezos sues in the new space race
As Jeff Bezos’s companies fall behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the race to return to the moon and launch satellites, they’re increasingly resorting to politics and legal filings to get ahead.
SpaceX capsule with world's first all-civilian orbital crew splashes down off Florida
The mission marked the debut flight of Elon Musk's new space tourism business and a leap ahead of his company's competition.
Japan's Defense Ministry to launch second SDF space unit next fiscal year
The Defense Ministry plans to establish a second space operations unit at the Air Self-Defense Force's Hofu Kita Air Base in Yamaguchi Prefecture in fiscal 2022, informed sources said Saturday. The squadron will monitor sabotage activities against Japanese satellites. Japan aims to keep up with the ...
Space junk, long feared, is now an imminent threat
Although the vast majority of space junk is the size of a grain of sand or smaller, at least 26,000 pieces are big enough to destroy a satellite.
Space billionaires stir alarm with absence of safety oversight
The success of two privately funded human-space launches last month has supercharged the U.S. commercial launch industry, and advocates say the lack of rules is a key component.
Startups from Japan and Israel to team up to make oxygen on moon
The potential technology could make possible long-term lunar missions independent of Earth in the future.
NASA says an asteroid will have a close brush with Earth. But not until the 2100s.
The trajectory of Bennu is known precisely enough that the chances of collision are exactly zero for the next century. But the crystal ball becomes fuzzier in 2135.
Japan research group to explore sustainable food source for lunar missions
The public-private endeavor is meant to encourage the private sector to enter the space business, sources have said.
The Momo6 rocket lifted off from a launch site in the Hokkaido town of Taiki at 5 p.m. Saturday.
International Space Station thrown out of control by misfire of Russian module
The crew members — a Japanese astronaut, two Russian cosmonauts, three NASA astronauts and an astronaut from France — were never in immediate danger, NASA said.
Japan successfully tests rocket engine propelled by new technology
The engine uses shock waves produced by burning a mixture of methane and oxygen gases.
'Road to space': Billionaire Bezos has successful suborbital jaunt
The 57-year-old American billionaire, donning a blue flight suit and cowboy hat, took a trip to the edge of space lasting 10 minutes and 10 seconds.
