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Nearly a month since an Astra Space rocket made its first launch from the Space Coast that ultimately ended with it tumbling out of control on ascent, the company announced details from its investigation of the failure.

The launch of a joint Europe-Russia mission to Mars this year is now “very unlikely” due to sanctions linked to the war in Ukraine, the European Space Agency said Monday.

The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers.

An advanced weather satellite completed the first 1,800 feet of its journey Monday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, but is primed for another 22,000 miles after a planned liftoff this afternoon.

Axiom Space officials may be taking three civilians up to the International Space Station at $55 million a seat along with their own employee, but they’d prefer not to be known as a space tourism company.

Documentary filmmaker Steven C. Barber has been on a commemorative space mission the last few years spearheading an effort to create statues for Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center and Apollo 13 in Houston. Now he’s looking to give Sally Ride her due.

The Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine should not have a significant impact on the International Space Station or U.S.-Russia cooperation in space, the former head of the National Space Council told The Associated Press on Wednesday before Russia launched its wide-ranging attack.

NASA mission managers on Thursday ruled out April for the Artemis I launch during a progress report ahead of the rollout of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B for a wet dress rehearsal.

Nearly two weeks since Astra Space’s first launch from Florida ended with the rocket spinning out of control in space, the company detailed the steps it’s taking to investigate the failure.

A commercial spaceflight company that plans to fly a massive balloon from the Space Coast will let you pay with cryptocurrency.