The Australasian Space Innovation Institute (ASII) plans a series of Flagship Programs to employ space-based technologies to support agriculture, maritime surveillance, disaster management and ...
University of Michigan large vacuum test facility in the Plasmadynamics & Electric Propulsion Laboratory. Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The U.S. Space Force awarded ...
On June 5, 2024, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams embarked on a brief mission to the International Space Station. But equipment failures turned what was supposed to be an eight-day trip into ...
Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease, researchers say. The ...
The UK Space Agency has announced an agreement with Vast—a US commercial space company—that could send British astronaut John McFall into orbit as early as 2027. If the mission goes ahead, he would ...
A data center could get more solar power and be kept much colder in space, but it would be extremely difficult to repair and ...
MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...