The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft snaps rare close-up images of Mercury during a planned gravity-assist flyby in 2023. Credit: ESA / JAXA A complex mission to Mercury that began its epic space voyage six ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Trump administration this week fired employees who were building a system to manage satellite traffic in space, weakening a badly needed effort championed by the U.S ...

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX reportedly lost ground control for at least an hour during the Polaris Dawn mission in September which included the first-ever private spacewalk. What ...

An out-of-control Russian spacecraft has probably plummeted to Earth, after 53 years stuck in orbit, experts say. In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an uncontrolled ...

On Oct. 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and Department of State's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) issued a series of updates to ...

The Trump administration’s plan to gut the Office of Space Commerce and cancel the government’s first civilian-run space traffic control program is gaining plenty of detractors. Earlier this week, ...

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The artificial intelligence software can classify and highlight features on the Moon’s surface. Credit: Astrobotic COLORADO SPRINGS—As part of a demonstration, Astrobotic will use an artificial ...

First, authors introduce the spacecraft relative orbit dynamics model, the spacecraft formation relative orbit error dynamics model, and basic theory and lemmas. For ...