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January 18, 2026

Breaking News

[ January 18, 2026 ] Live coverage: Space Falcon 9 rocket counting down to Starlink delivery mission Falcon 9
[ January 16, 2026 ] NRO, SpaceX launch reconnaissance satellites from Vandenberg Falcon 9
[ January 15, 2026 ] Crew 11 safely splashes down after shortened mission Mission Reports
[ January 14, 2026 ] NASA, SpaceX conduct ‘medical evacuation’ Crew-11 return to Earth Mission Reports
[ January 14, 2026 ] SpaceX breaks pad turnaround record at Cape Canaveral with midday Starlink launch Falcon 9

Spacewalk snapshots show recent station EVAs

November 16, 2015 Stephen Clark

Clad in white spacesuits, astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren recently floated outside the International Space Station on a pair of spacewalks, and the duo carried cameras with them to document the excursions.

Airborne researchers catch up with falling space debris

November 16, 2015 Stephen Clark

Stationed aboard a Gulfstream business jet over the Indian Ocean, an international team of scientists observed a mysterious fragment of space junk falling through Earth’s atmosphere Friday years after it was discarded on a deep space mission.

ESA plans for Rosetta’s grand finale on comet 67P

November 14, 2015 Stephen Clark

European Space Agency flight controllers are plotting to send the Rosetta spacecraft on a controlled descent to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko next year to join the Philae landing probe, which made a bouncy touchdown on the comet’s craggy nucleus one year ago this week.

Station-bound cargo ship shown to press before launch

November 14, 2015 Justin Ray

The Orbital ATK’s Cygnus commercial resupply spacecraft, named the SS Deke Slayton II, is packed up and poised for launch to the International Space Station.

U.S.-Russian talks on Venus mission resume

November 12, 2015 Stephen Clark

NASA has resumed discussions with Russia on a potential joint robotic mission to Venus in the late 2020s after the Ukraine crisis stalled the partnership, according to scientists involved in the talks.

Roving chunk of space junk plunging back to Earth

November 12, 2015 Stephen Clark

A long-lost fragment of space debris is falling toward Earth for a searing re-entry over the Indian Ocean on Friday, but the widely-watched event poses no risk to people.

Rewatch the Ariane 5’s spectacular sunset liftoff

November 12, 2015 Stephen Clark

Watch multi-angle video replays of Tuesday’s blastoff of an Ariane 5 rocket from the jungles of South America carrying two communications satellite for Arabsat and the Indian Space Research Organization.

Stacking starts for Atlas 5 cargo run to space station with Cygnus

November 11, 2015 Justin Ray

United Launch Alliance has begun stacking its first Atlas 5 rocket to fly in service to the International Space Station, a commercial mission to send supplies to the orbiting complex.

Arab and Indian satellites fly aboard Ariane 5

November 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

A European Ariane 5 rocket, burning a cryogenic mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, thundered into the sky over French Guiana at dusk Tuesday with two communications relay satellites to serve the Arab world and India.

Radio bug to keep new Iridium satellites grounded until April

November 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

The first launch for Iridium’s next-generation mobile communications fleet has been pushed back four months — from December until April — to resolve a technical problem inside the spacecraft’s Ka-band communications payload.