Starlink Satellite Nearly Brushes Chinese Payload Earth orbit. While neither agency has confirmed a direct collision risk, the incident underscores the growing challenge of space traffic management in an increasingly
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Starship’s East Coast Ascent Begins in Earnest While SpaceX’s Roberts Road facility near Kennedy Space Center signals a major shift in the company’s long-term strategy. For years, Starbase in Texas
Satellites Zero In on Landfill Methane Emissions As nations race to meet climate targets, a new frontier in emissions monitoring has opened—from orbit. The European Space Agency (ESA) is now
MAVEN Goes Quiet Behind the Red Planet NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter has fallen silent—and mission engineers are working to reestablish contact. The spacecraft last communicated as
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Canada’s SNOLAB Detects Solar “Ghost Particles” in First-Ever Observation Deep beneath the rocky terrain of Sudbury, Ontario—two kilometres underground—Canadian science just helped unveil a cosmic secret that’s been slipping through
Canada’s Artemis II Backup Astronaut Trains for the Moon—and Beyond While Jeremy Hansen captures headlines as Canada’s first lunar-bound astronaut, his backup, Jenni Gibbons, is equally immersed in the intense
The U.S. Moon Rush Needs a Backup Plan—Fast The United States is sticking to its goal of returning astronauts to the Moon before China lands there—ideally between 2028 and 2030.
Starship Takes Root at Cape Canaveral SpaceX has cleared a major bureaucratic hurdle this week: it received final environmental approval and authorization from the Department of the Air Force to
Canada Reveals Space Priorities Through Defence Investment Agency In a recent parliamentary disclosure, the Canadian Defence Investment Agency (DIA) confirmed it is managing eight priority defence procurement projects as of
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