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Japanese space startup, iSpace, attempted to land a privately-funded spacecraft on the moon, the Hakuto-R Mission 1, in late April 2023, only for the lander to fail in the final stages – what was the purpose of the mission and why did the lander fail?

Despite the fact that engineering has always been viewed as a male-dominated field, women have achieved some of the most remarkable feats in history.

Virgin Galactic has successfully launched its inaugural space tourism flight, carrying its first group of passengers to the edge of space.

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. The agencies revealed the crew members Monday during an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston.

In three years' time, the Monegasque Venturi Group will write the most impressive page in its history: in 2026, the FLEX (Flexible Logistics and Exploration) rover, the result of an international collaboration (see below), will head for the Moon.

The Stratolaunch Roc has completed its record-breaking six-hour long flight over the Californian Mojave Desert.

2023 is set to be a huge year for British space launches. The nation holding its breath for further news on the Virgin Orbit launch from Spaceport Cornwall now that the final required licenses have been issued by the UK space regulator, which will put Britain on the ‘space’ map.

Kleos Space advises its four Observer Mission (KSF3) satellites are manifested to launch on 3rd January aboard the Transporter-6 SpaceX mission.

Kleos Space S.A., a space-powered defence and intelligence technology company, confirms it is now successfully processing RF data collected by the Vigilance Mission (KSF1) satellites through its signal processing technology platform to create its geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) product, LOCATE, which has been released to initial customers alongside other intelligence collected by the Vigilance Mission.

NASA and SpaceX signed an unfunded Space Act Agreement Thursday, Sept. 22, to study the feasibility of a SpaceXand Polaris Programidea to boost the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit with the Dragon spacecraft, at no cost to the government