Space Voyaging

🚀 Preparations continue for the Artemis II launch on April 1st from Florida. 🌕 Meanwhile, NASA announced a major transformation of the Artemis program to focus on Lunar Base development. And now it's official: the Lunar Gateway is cancelled. Read more: spacevoyaging.com/news/2026/03/2…

🚀 Rocket Lab launched from Wallops the seventh HASTE mission, the second for the @DIU_x's HyCAT program. The rocket released in the upper atmosphere @HypersonixAU DART hypersonic demonstration vehicle powered by the SPARTAN scramjet engine. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2026/02/2…

🚀 SpaceX successfully launched Crew-12 toward the International Space Station from SLC-40. 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇷🇺 Today's mission is carrying @NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, @esa astronaut Sophie Adenot, and the cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2026/02/1…

🚀 Artemis II, originally scheduled to launch in February, has suffered another delay due to issues related to liquid hydrogen. Not something new for the program. NASA is now publicly acknowledging the criticalities of the Space Launch System. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2026/02/0…

🛰️ SpaceX has recently announced the launch of a new Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system, called Stargaze. Stargaze uses data collected from nearly 30,000 star trackers distributed across the @Starlink satellite constellation. Find out more: spacevoyaging.com/news/2026/02/0…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is set to enter the history of space astronomy with an ambitious new project: the first large-scale private space telescope. Scheduled for launch around 2028, Lazuli represents a new model of orbital observatory. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2026/01/2…

🚀 Today, Ariane 6 lifted off for the fourth time in 2025. 🛰️🇪🇺 @Arianespace VA266 mission carried two new Galileo satellites, further improving the precision, availability, and robustness of the European global navigation satellite system. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/12/1…

🚀 @RocketLab successfully launched the 18th mission of the year, carrying @JAXA_en RAISE-4 from New Zealand. 🛰🇯🇵 RAISE-4 is a technology demonstration satellite developed under JAXA’s Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration Program. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/12/1…

🚀 Today, #SpaceX launched the 15th Transporter rideshare mission from Vandenberg, delivering up to 140 payloads. 🛰️ Among them, Falcon 9 is carrying @esa's HydroGNSS mission, new satellites for @iceye_global, @planet, and @VardaSpace's W-5. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/11/2…

🤝 Today, @isaraerospace announced a new launch service agreement with @SEOPSLLC for the delivery of multiple payloads into a LEO orbit in 2028. 🇳🇴🚀 Meanwhile, the German company is preparing for the second Spectrum launch from @AndoyaSpace. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/11/1…

🚀 Recently, @AtmosSpaceCargo and @SpaceCu announced that their first joint mission will fly aboard a Falcon 9 rocket in 2026. The private mission will demonstrate the integration of SCU's BentoBox platform and ATMOS' PHOENIX 2 re-entry capsule. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/11/1…

Congratulations to the whole @blueorigin team for today's big achievements. A great moment for the industry and space exploration. 👏🚀

🚀 Today, @blueorigin completed a flawless second New Glenn flight, launching #NASA's ESCAPADE mission toward Mars. New Glenn’s first stage safely landed, making Blue Origin the second company ever to achieve a recovery of an orbital rocket. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/11/1…

🚀 Launch Alert | We're targeting New Glenn's second launch no earlier than Sunday, November 9, from LC-36. NG-2 will send @NASA's ESCAPADE twin spacecraft on their journey to Mars and carry a @Viasat technology demonstration for @NASASpaceOps' Communications Services Project.

🚀 Today, the fourth @ArianeGroup Ariane 6 rocket successfully launched and deployed into orbit the Sentinel-1D Earth observation satellite. 🛰️ #Sentinel1D will replace Sentinel-1A, supporting the Copernicus Programme, managed by EU and @esa. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/11/0…

🚀 Aboard #SpaceX's Bandwagon-4 mission, @vast launched its technology demonstrator Haven Demo to test critical systems for Haven-1. Vast has already completed most of the major milestones for the first module, ahead of launch in 2026. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/11/0…

🇩🇪 Recently, the German government announced a €35 billion investment in space defence projects. 🇪🇺🛰️ Berlin is also working with France to develop a European satellite early warning system, consolidating its position in Europe and NATO. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/10/3…

🚀 Today @RocketLab successfully launched a new StriX SAR satellite for @synspective from New Zealand. 🛰️ “Owl New World” is Rocket Lab’s seventh launch for Synspective in a series of missions to deploy the company’s Earth-imaging constellation. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/10/1…

Recently, @InversionSpace unveiled Arc, an innovative space-based delivery vehicle. Arc enables rapid cargo drop-offs anywhere on Earth in under an hour from orbit while providing a platform for hypersonic testing. Article: spacevoyaging.com/news/2025/10/0…