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Varda Space Industries, a company developing spacecraft for microgravity life sciences and hypersonics research, has raised $187 million to expand the scope and cadence of its missions. The post Varda Space Industries raises $187 million appeared first on SpaceNews.

There was a time when looking up at the night sky stirred a visceral sense of wonder. The moon landing, the Shuttle launches, the Voyager missions — these were moments that gripped the public imagination and filled people with a sense of shared destiny beyond Earth. But somewhere along the way, something shifted. Despite unprecedented

A Chinese Shiyan satellite appears in a low-inclination orbit never before used by the country, after a week-long detection delay and uncertainty over its mission. The post Experimental Chinese satellite turns up in unexpected orbit appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA officials say there is a “strong chance” that the next test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle will be uncrewed. The post NASA considering flying only cargo on next Starliner mission appeared first on SpaceNews.

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. Yet, the actual spacecraft remains publicly shrouded in mystery and international cooperation on the mission is limited. For most space agencies, this

A Senate appropriations bill that rejected the administration’s proposed cuts to NASA is in limbo after a dispute among senators about an unrelated provision. The post Senate spending bill that overrides proposed NASA cuts held up in committee appeared first on SpaceNews.

Parsing the Space Force’s budget each year is a difficult task. The FY2026 budget is more complicated and more difficult to grasp due in part to the reconciliation process lawmakers used as a way to pass President Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” The post Webinar: Space Force Budget appeared first on SpaceNews.

A new GAO report highlights slow adoption of orbital servicing capabilities The post Space industry sticks with single-use satellite model despite new technologies appeared first on SpaceNews.

The U.K. plans to inject $191 million into Eutelsat’s capital raise this year to maintain its 10.89% stake in the French multi-orbit satellite operator. The post UK joins Eutelsat capital boost to maintain strategic LEO stake appeared first on SpaceNews.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, award-winning science fiction author and physicist David Brin joins host David Ariosto for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of space, science, and humanity. The post What if science fiction is our best glimpse of the future?  appeared first on SpaceNews.