Several human spaceflights were announced during September, alongside other updates relating to astronaut activities. Women outnumber men in NASA astronaut class 2025: For the first time in its 67-year history, NASA’s astronaut class saw women outnumber men. The...
After three consecutive flight failures plus an on-land test explosion, there was a lot riding on the 10th suborbital test flight (IFT-10) of the Starship/Super Heavy. Success was needed for both SpaceX and for NASA’s Artemis lunar programme – and it was...
Every year, Seradata reviews the ‘runners and riders’ in the Great Space Race, or rather the two races: to return humans to the Moon and to land humans on the surface of Mars for the first time. In this we judge each of the leading contender nations’ space programmes...
NASA’s doubts about a fix to an air leak on the International Space Station (ISS) led to the delay of a crewed mission to the ISS. A long-standing air leak in the PrK transfer tunnel of Russia’s Zvezda module had been causing a gradual depressurisation. Cosmonauts...
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don’t have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of May (space orders can also be found in...
The Trump Administration has proposed cutting NASA’s budget by 32%, earning it the nickname of “the Skinny Budget”. The President’s Budget Request (PBR) for the fiscal year to end-September 2026 is US$18.8 billion, a cut of US$6.1 billion from NASA’s US$24.9 billion...
