The Aviation Diary
Space covers the latest news on NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, satellite launches, exploration missions, rockets, aerospace innovation, and commercial spaceflight.
NASA awarded Modulate Space a roughly $38 million contract to develop lunar 5G and Wi-Fi communications, with laboratory and surface demonstration phases planned before any operational Moon network can be claimed.
Read Story →ESA researchers traced an S-shaped magnetic switchback seen by Solar Orbiter back to hot magnetic loops near the Sun, helping reconcile two theories of solar-wind structure.
Read Story →NASA is targeting an October 13 launch of SpaceX CRS-35 with more than 6,300 pounds of cargo, the final station roll-out solar arrays and several research payloads.
Read Story →JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration mission targets an October 20 launch in Japan, carrying NASA contributions and a plan to return samples from Phobos in 2031.
Read Story →NASA nuclear power development gained a new coordination agreement on October 8 when NASA and the Department of Energy signed a memorandum of understanding covering space nuclear power and propulsion..
Read Story →NASA Crew-12 returned to Earth on October 8 when its SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles. NASA said the spacecraft touched down at 11:34.
Read Story →NASA selected L3Harris to build a new all-glass engineering telescope for the ESA-led LISA gravitational-wave observatory, moving the project closer to flight hardware production ahead of its planned mid-2030s launch.
Read Story →South Korea’s fifth Nuri mission deployed five NEONSAT observation satellites and nine CubeSats on October 7. Officials said one small secondary payload failed to separate.
Read Story →The European Space Agency and an International Astronomical Union center signed a new cooperation agreement to limit satellite interference with optical and radio astronomy through spacecraft design and operations.
Read Story →NASA plans an uncrewed Starliner mission around December 2026 or January 2027 to validate fixes, while the next crewed flight is targeted no earlier than 2028.
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