November 2nd, 2026
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China continues to chart its first crewed Moon landing before 2030, detailing current plans last weekend during the Seventh Manned Space Symposium in Beijing. The two-day symposium drew more than 800 experts and scholars to explore how digital and intelligent technologies can advance human spaceflight. Uncrewed test flights of the Mengzhou crewed spacecraft and the […]
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It came from outer space, exploding high above the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina. That April 1 event was an incoming meteor – also termed as a bolide – was observed by both U.S. space-based military and civil sensors. Hush-hush U.S. government satellite sensors detected the speedy fireball cutting through our atmosphere. The […]
An upcoming and uncontrolled reentry of the NASA’s Swift observatory is expected to occur in the next few days. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory reentry into Earth’s atmosphere signals a number of issues. One of those was a botched rescue mission to keep the orbiting telescope in high-flying, sky surveillance mode. Following the termination of […]
The now-orbiting Shenzhou-23 crew aboard China’s Tiangong space station has recently completed the fifth transfer of material exposure experimental apparatus to the station’s exterior, advancing a series of experiments that have yielded multiple world firsts. Crew members — Zhu Yangzhu, Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying — were sent into space aboard the Shenzhou-23 spacecraft on […]
Virgin Galactic’s newly named spaceship Apeiron departed Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Arizona early today mated to Eve, the company’s launch vehicle. The vehicle combo landed at Spaceport America in New Mexico at 12:59 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. Pilot in Command Michael Masucci and Pilot Dan Alix flew Eve, with Flight Test Engineer Tori Crichton on […]
Suborbital spaceplane-provider, Virgin Galactic, has announced the name of its lead Delta spaceship: Apeiron (App-Err-On). That name was chosen by a public vote and draws upon responses from around the world — including 83 countries and six continents. Aperion stems from the ancient Greek concept of “the boundless.” Also today, Virgin Galactic’s Apeiron will fly […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has released a new report assessing the scope and breadth of adversary threats in space. The DIA’s 2026 edition — Challenges to Security in Space — details the space defense and military goals, including strategies, plans and intentions, of China, Russia and the emerging space powers of Iran and North […]
Virgin Galactic announced today that the lead Spaceship of its next-generation fleet is set to fly to its operations base at Spaceport America, New Mexico on October 28. The Spaceship, mated to launch vehicle Eve for a captive-carry flight, will depart the company’s Spaceship Factory in Mesa, Arizona. The arrival marks the transition from vehicle […]
The U.S. Department of War has published the seventh release of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). Today’s new release of declassified and historical Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files is being done under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The seventh release of UAP files is available now on WAR.GOV/UFO – go to: […]
The SETI Institute has designed LaserSETI, technology to keep a constant watch on large parts of the sky, looking for very brief flashes of light. “LaserSETI was designed from the beginning as a global observatory rather than a single telescope,” said Eliot Gillum, Director of LaserSETI at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. The […]
