On a cold January morning in 2021, Türkiye launched its Türksat 5A satellite into orbit, marking a significant step toward space independence. The nation celebrated this achievement, but underlying ...

The Polaris Dawn mission, an ambitious five-day journey to the upper reaches of Earth's orbit, will take the crew higher than an human has traveled in more than 50 years. After descending to a ...

"I've gotten a lot of experience with the challenges that are there." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Dana Weigel, the first ...

The Space Test Program-3 mission sent two U.S. Space Force satellites to orbit in December 2021 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., on an Atlas 5 rocket. Credit: United Launch Alliance ...

China has had astronauts in space since June 2012, when the Shenzhou 10 mission docked with the Tiangong-1 prototype space station for the first time. Since then, the country's presence in orbit has ...

As president, Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for a U.S. rapprochement with Russia, in distinct contrast with the policies of previous administrations. On June 16, for instance, he ...

(L to R) Laura Shepard Churchley, Michael Strahan, Dylan Taylor, Cameron Bess, Lane Bess and Evan Dick stand on the landing pad after they flew into space on Dec. 11, 2021 near Van Horn, Texas. Getty ...

The funds will continue the Pentagon's efforts to explore short-notice small satellite launch capabilities through 2024 and 2025. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The UAE is a small country with big ambitions. Possibly, nowhere is that clearer than in its space program, which has already sent two astronauts to space and has a ...

As we come to the end of 2023, it is an apt time to revisit China’s priorities for its space program. In President Xi Jinping’s speech at the 20th Party Congress in October 2022, space infrastructure ...

Regardless of the outcome of this year’s election, the United States will have a new president in a few months. Although there are myriad issues of greater importance than spaceflight to most ...

A Russian Soyuz rocket is raised on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 5, 2025. Launching three days later, it carried NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts ...