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Launched on 19 December 2013, Gaia’s fuel tank is now approaching empty – it uses about a dozen grams of cold gas per day to keep it spinning with pinpoint precision. But this is far from the end of the mission.

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I think they are missing a “still” in the title…

Fingers crossed for our new European launcher 🤞

The European Union has reached an agreement with the United States that will allow for the launch of four Galileo navigation satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket....

Seems like a good initiative. Rockets are one of the few forms of transport which are currently impossible to electrify. Though hydrogen is not the perfect rocket propellant, it has the advantage that it produces no carbon dioxide when combusted. Current hydrogen production still produces carbon dioxide though, so it is nice to...

The Exploration Company is developing a modular, reusable spacecraft called Nyx, which will initially be used to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station. Planned future variants of the spacecraft include versions capable of transporting cargo to lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon, as well as a variant...

Article textJeff Foust 6–7 minutes WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency is putting the final touches on a package of programs worth 22 billion euros ($25.6 billion) for next month’s ministerial conference, despite U.S. budget uncertainty and the removal of one mission from consideration. At an Oct. 23 briefing after a...

Article textJeff Foust 4–5 minutes WASHINGTON — Hungary has become the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, outlining norms of behavior for sustainable space exploration. In a social media post Oct. 22, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy said Hungary signed the Accords, becoming the 57th nation to do so and the...