• July 29 2024
  Space industry calls for bolder bets in UK funding strategy

  Orbex boss questions new funding for German start-up as executives call for investment to boost national projects

  
• July 23 2024
  Spending watchdog questions UK investment in European Space Agency

  National Audit Office report says strategy does not deliver value for money

  
• July 17 2024
  The Big Read

  What do we gain from going back to the Moon?

  Nasa is leading a global race to live and work on the lunar surface. But for all the investment there are no guaranteed rewards

  
• July 15 2024
  Satellites

  Airbus and Thales explore space tie-up

  Extensive satellite use in Ukraine conflict underlines sector’s strategic importance

  
• July 9 2024
  Europe’s newest rocket launches into space

  Ariane 6 will compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX in deploying satellites

  
• July 8 2024
  Europe launches countdown on its return to space

  Ariane 6 rocket must pass multiple carefully orchestrated milestones before lifting off on its first flight on Tuesday

  
• June 30 2024
  Europe’s newest rocket puts bloc’s space ambitions to the test

  Successful first flight of Ariane 6 would boost European credibility in commercial rocket launch market

  
• June 26 2024
  Boeing Co

  Boeing rejects claims Nasa crew ‘stranded’ by spacecraft

  Delayed return of Starliner from International Space Station comes at worst possible time for US aerospace group

  
• June 20 2024
  Nato fund takes stake in German rocket start-up

  Investment in Isar comes as military alliance’s European members seek to harness private sector space capabilities

  
• June 9 2024
  Billionaires Mittal and Ambani take on Musk in India’s internet space race

  Bharti Airtel’s joint venture with Eutelsat OneWeb could start operating in June

  
• May 26 2024
  French space chief calls for end to European agency’s investment model

  EU support at risk if group keeps key ‘georeturn’ principle in awarding contracts, says Philippe Baptiste

  
• May 22 2024
  European Space Agency

  European Space Agency aims for own version of SpaceX

  Body awards contracts to two companies to develop cargo services to International Space Station

  
• May 15 2024
  Special ReportInvesting in Minas Gerais

  Brazilian niobium carves out an energy niche

  US research highlights Chinese involvement in metal’s production

  
• May 11 2024
  Lex PopuliPersonal Finance

  How to invest in the second space race

  Share prices remain at ground level for now

  
• March 15 2024
  Space Exploration Technologies Corp

  SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches space but is lost on return to Earth

  World’s most powerful rocket fails in final phase after meeting third test mission’s other objectives

  
• March 10 2024
  Space exploration

  First commercial moon mission will try to revive lander as lunar night ends

  Intuitive Machines aims to extend Odysseus’s pioneering commercial space exploration mission

  
• February 24 2024
  Space exploration

  First commercial spacecraft lands on the Moon

  Successful touchdown by Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander heralds more commercial era for space exploration

  
• February 23 2024
  Are investors prepared for *checks notes* nuclear war in space?

  Space boom, meet actual boom

  
• February 23 2024
  House & Home

  How to build a home on the Moon (that you might actually want to live in)

  As the first commercial spacecraft lands on the lunar surface, architects and engineers envisage a settlement with a human dimension

  
• February 4 2024
  News in-depth

  Rocket revolution threatens to undo decades of European unity on space

  Starting gun has been fired on competition to determine the continent’s leading rocket maker

  
• January 29 2024
  Space exploration

  Japan’s lunar craft regains power after upside-down landing

  Landmark mission this month was jeopardised after engine failure on descent led to power problem

  
• January 21 2024
  European Space Agency

  Europe urged to deepen co-operation in space to counter global rivals

  National governments should integrate resources in security and defence arenas, says ESA chief Josef Aschbacher

  
• January 19 2024
  Space exploration

  Japanese spacecraft lands on the Moon

  Tokyo joins USSR, US, China and India in achieving soft landing but power problem jeopardises its lunar project

  
• January 10 2024
  News in-depthNikkei Asia

  Asia space race heats up as China, Japan and India reach for the stars

  Beijing-based LandSpace set to challenge Elon Musk’s monopoly on reusable rockets next year

  
• January 9 2024
  European space agency warns ‘no guarantee’ for Ariane in rocket launch market

  Airbus and Safran under pressure as ESA promotes competition to spur Europe’s new space economy

  

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