A study of 4,405 launches found that average launch costs fell from $87,023 per kilogram in 1960 to $3,868 in 2025. Reusability could push costs lower, but debris, market concentration and geopolitics may interfere.
Australian Earth observation company LatConnect 60 has introduced an AI capability designed to combine future SWIRSAT imagery with radar, signals, tracking feeds and other authorised intelligence sources for defence users.
A new Mars Express view of Kaiser Crater makes dark, frost-covered dunes look like polished metal. The illusion is striking, but the landscape also preserves clues to Martian winds, ancient water and a planet’s long geological memory.
A proposed breakup of the Eulalia parent asteroid about 800 million years ago may help explain a spike in lunar impacts. The evidence is strongest on the Moon, while possible links to changes on Earth, Mars and Venus remain hypotheses that need much more testing.
SpaceX halted a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg after all nine Merlin engines ignited and shut down. The event may affect launch scheduling, but there is no public SpaceX stock price to move.
Hongqing Technology has raised more than 1.3 billion yuan, about $191 million, in one of the largest single funding rounds for a Chinese commercial satellite maker, underscoring growing state-backed support for low Earth orbit manufacturing and constellation services.
If you want to build a launch trip around a real mission in 2026, these are the five US rocket launches worth planning for, from Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg to Wallops. Dates can shift, so the smart move is to plan around the launch window, not a single day.
NASA will send two astronauts on a June 30 spacewalk to replace a malfunctioning joint on Canadarm2. The repair is routine in scope but comes as an independent advisory panel warns the station’s spare parts, spacesuits and margin for error are growing thin as the ISS approaches its planned 2030 retirement.
New research on the DR21 molecular cloud suggests magnetic fields help funnel gas through smaller filaments into a dense central ridge, sustaining the conditions needed for massive star formation.
A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage left over from a 2025 lunar mission is predicted to strike the Moon on Aug. 5, 2026. Experts say the impact might be too subtle to see from Earth, but there’s a real chance we could catch a flash or an over-the-limb plume if geometry and timing line up.