The story of space debris highlighting how the unintended consequences of intense spaceflight activity during the past 60 years has resulted in a growing population of debris objects that po… Read More

Initial configurations of Vulcan will use the same Centaur upper stage as the Atlas V, with its existing RL-10 engines. A later advanced cryogenic upper stage — called the Advanced Cry… Read More

The European Data Relay System (EDRS) is the most sophisticated laser communication network ever designed. Dubbed the 'SpaceDataHighway', EDRS will help Earth-observing satellites to transmi… Read More

NASA Day of Remembrance commemorates the fallen heroes of Apollo1, Challenger, and Columbia. Please visit OrbitalHub to read more Read More

Jason-3, a U.S.-European oceanography satellite mission with NASA participation that will continue a nearly quarter-century record of tracking global sea level rise, lifted off from Vandenbe… Read More

The Sentinels are [...] making a step change in the way we view and manage our environment, understand and tackle the effects of climate change and safeguard everyday lives. It serves Europe… Read More

Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials. Images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft were used to create a movie of Ceres rotatin… Read More

It's always shining, always ablaze with light and energy that drive weather, biology and more. In addition to keeping life alive on Earth, the sun also sends out a constant flow of particles… Read More

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying 11 satellites for ORBCOMM. The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket… Read More

Two days after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 62 cargo ship docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment at the International Space Station Dec. 23. Lo… Read More

After launching earlier in the day on Dec. 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 46-47 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), N… Read More

The Soyuz spacecraft carrying Expedition 45 crew members Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren of NASA and Kimiya Yui of the Japa… Read More

On Dec.6, Orbital ATK's enhanced Cygnus spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to the International Space Station, on a mission to deliver more than 7,000 pound… Read More

Liftoff of Vega VV06 carrying LISA Pathfinder from Europe's Spaceport, French Guiana, at 04:04 GMT/05:04 CET on 3 December 2015. Vega will place LISA Pathfinder into an elliptical orbit arou… Read More

The winning teammates are members of Space Concordia, a student-run astronautical engineering association based in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at the Concordia University… Read More

Disruptive technology is a very bizarre (and scary) concept, but it is not a bizarre or scary idea. The concept was introduced by Clayton Christensen. In one of his books, The Innovator&rsqu&hell…Read More

The second Canadian Satellite Design Competition (CSDC) team that answered our invitation to a Q&A is the team from Dalhousie University. Colin O’Flynn, graduate student at Dalhous… Read More

The Canadian Satellite Design Competition (CSDC) is a Canada-wide competition for teams of university students (undergraduate and graduate) to design and build low-cost satellite. The CSDC p… Read More