Satellite-payload adapter tests at ESTEC for the SMILE mission in February 2023. Credit: CAS HELSINKI — ESA and China recently launched the joint SMILE magnetosphere mission after a decade of ...

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have both celebrated space victories, but they’ve also faced setbacks. (Musk at left: GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota, 2020. Bezos at right: Blue Origin Photo, 2021) Jeff Bezos’ ...

For more than a decade, U.S. law has barred NASA from spending federal money on bilateral cooperation with China in space. That restriction, renewed year after year in congressional appropriations, ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has only just begun to launch a heavy-lift rocket that was a decade in the making — its orbital-class New Glenn launch vehicle, which had its first flight in ...