Project led by French firm OSMOS X will develop a spacecraft that captures satellites by welding, without a docking port
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Virgin Galactic’s lead next-generation spaceship, named Apeiron by public vote, will undergo flight tests before commercial flights planned for 2027
An instrumented SpaceX Starfall capsule carried Air Force Research Laboratory cargo pods to test point-to-point rocket delivery
Debris removal and in-space refuelling demand rendezvous and robotics that cannot be fully tested under gravity – so Astroscale, Orbit Fab and Redwire are proving them on the ground
Spaceport Cornwall and Dawn Aerospace are exploring operating the reusable Aurora spaceplane from Newquay
ClearSpace will lead the UK Space Agency’s first national mission to capture and remove defunct satellites – space debris – from orbit
California startup Longshot Space is adapting giant distributed-injection “space guns” to offer high-cadence, fixed-price hypersonic testing-as-a-service
An engineering model of a NASA Venus descent probe has survived repeated simulations of the planet’s extreme surface temperatures
French aerospace research agency ONERA is renewing its Toulouse facilities to simulate how space radiation degrades satellite materials
Canada Rocket Company will build the country’s first large-scale static rocket engine test facility in London, Ontario