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Renewed threat of nuclear wars: Global powers gearing up for space warfare?

China, Russia, and America are all developing anti-satellite weaponry and deployment vehicles, including the testing of small, reusable, inspection and delivery vehicles

Sunita Williams set for third space mission, will join NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to ISS

Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams will be joining NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station. Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998. She has previously undertaken two space missions, namely Expeditions 14/15 and 32/33

SpaceX not safe for workers has the highest injury rate in the industry for second year running

SpaceX continues to be one the most hazardous space organisations to work at, for the second year running. SpaceX's Brownsville, Texas facility, for example, saw 5.9 injuries per 100 workers versus the industry average of 0.8 injuries

China at it again: Beijing hiding military activities in space as civilian programmes, says NASA

China has made some seriously impressive advancements in space, despite their space programme working in isolation. NASA chief Bill Nelson believes that their civilian space program is a military program

Meet Aroh Barjatya, India-born scientist who led NASA’s most important mission during solar eclipse

The mission, which launched three sounding rockets on April 8th, had one simple purpose — to reveal how the Earth's upper atmosphere behaves in the absence of light, especially when sunlight is sim over a part of the planet

Will we get a new Moon Standard Time? NASA's big plan, explained

The White House has asked NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the Moon, calling it a coordinated lunar time (LTC). This would provide a time-keeping benchmark for lunar spacecraft and satellites that require extreme precision for their missions

Mars had more water for longer than previously thought, shows NASA's Curiosity Rover

NASA's Curiosity Rover has found evidence that suggests Mars may have had much more water and for much longer than what the scientific community had previously thought. The discoveries prompt reconsideration of Mars' environmental conditions

NASA's budget cuts may force them to shut down one of a kind, Chandra X-ray Observatory Satellite

NASA may be forced to shutdown a one of a kind solar observatory satellite, the Chandra X-ray Observatory because of financial constraints and budget cuts. NASA's new budget outlines a reduction in funding for Chandra, from $68.3 million in 2023 to potentially $5 million by 2029

Russian spacecraft launch to ISS cancelled at last minute

The crew, including NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, was shown in the rocket just before the cancellation

NASA plans to set up ‘lunar lighthouse’ soon, to partner with private space tech companies

NASA is planning to set up a lunar lighthouse soon and has already started experiments. In the lead up to the landing of Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander, NASA deployed Lunar Node-1 or LN-1 on the Moon, marking a significant step in lunar navigation technology