Tech-focused groups are launching new orbiters as space launches get cheaper, while machine-learning techniques will sift the torrent of information. Read more
A successful landing would make Ispace the first private Asian company to touch down on the moon. Read more
New Glenn, originally intended to launch as early as 2020, is set to lift off as soon as Monday out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Read more
Ispace’s Resilience lander will lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more
The investment is the latest sign of progress in the Japanese government’s push to nurture the country’s private space sector. Read more
Since the method does not require large-scale ground facilities, the cost can be reduced to one-third of that on the ground, according to the company. Read more
The outage, which hasn’t previously been reported, meant that SpaceX mission control was briefly unable to command its Dragon spacecraft in orbit. Read more
Japan’s Orbital Lasers is building a system that will use laser energy to stop the rotation of space junk by vaporizing small parts of its surface. Read more
The unmanned asteroid probe was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Dec. 3, 2014. Read more
A United Nations panel on space traffic coordination called for a shared database of orbital objects as well as an international framework to track and manage them. Read more
