Space Applications Introduces PUPPETEER Astronaut Training System
Brussels-based Space Applications Services has introduced its PUPPETEER gravity offloading system. Currently being developed in collaboration with the German space agency DLR, the system...
Avio Plans Introduction of Vega Next Rocket Beyond 2032
Italian rocket builder Avio has revealed that it plans to introduce its post-Vega-E "Vega Next" rocket beyond 2032.
Last week the final flight of the...
Airbus Demonstrates Autonomous Sample Collection for Mars Missions
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully demonstrated autonomous sample collection capabilities using a four-wheeled rover called Codi.
Over the last three years, ESA and Airbus...
MaiaSpace Prepares to Start Hot Fire Testing in 2025
French launch startup MaiaSpace has announced that it is preparing to conduct the first hot fire test of the upper stage of its Maia...
ESA Seeks Novel Propulsion Solutions for Cubesat Deorbiting
The European Space Agency has published a call for the development of disruptive satellite propulsion systems that are capable of deorbiting cubesats.
Cubesats were first...
Thruster Issues Delay BepiColombo’s Mercury Arrival by 11 Months
The European Space Agency has announced that persistent issues with the BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module's thrusters will delay its arrival around the closest planet...
Heriot-Watt Begins Work on £2.5M Quantum Comms Ground Station
Heriot-Watt University has broken ground on the new quantum communications optical ground station in Scotland.
The Edinburgh City Council approved plans to build the optical...
Europe Delivers Orion Service Module for Artemis III Mission
The third European Service Module, which will power NASA's Orion spacecraft, has left Germany and is on its way to the Kennedy Space Center...
Student-Led Reusable Rocket Team Prepares to Spin-Off Tech
A group of students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne in Switzerland have built and begun testing a vertical takeoff, vertical landing...
ESA and Poland Test Fire Variable-Thrust Rocket Engine
A Polish consortium has completed a Phase A static fire test campaign of a new variable-thrust rocket engine.
The Throttleable Liquid Propulsion Demonstrator (TLPD) engine...
