China launched its third and final module Monday in its effort to complete its permanent space station as competition with the United States continues to intensify. Mengtian was launched into space ...

“HALO can be repurposed for a variety of lunar missions and it’s the most mature technology to support a deep space or lunar ...

The company conducted a spectacular burst test on a full-scale LIFE module to assess the strength of its pressure shell. Reading time 2 minutes You can’t fly an inflatable module to space without ...

That's one big bang for space station safety. Sierra Space deliberately blew up its first full-scale space station module prototype recently to get ready for future space missions that could take ...

On June 25, 1997, a Russian Progress M-34 spacecraft collided with the Russian Mir space station. [‘On This Day in Space’ ...

Five of the seven crew members on the International Space Station briefly sought refuge inside a SpaceX return capsule Friday morning as two Russian cosmonauts worked on an air leak on the other end ...

The third and final module for China’s space station has been filled with propellant in preparation for its journey to orbit later this month. The Mengtian experiment module arrived at the Wenchang ...

Inflatable space habitats are reportedly the next biggest venture by startup Max Space, hoping to make the Moon and Mars habitable for humanity. Max Space's habitats are reportedly the largest modules ...

A 300-cubic-meter inflatable module exceeded NASA safety margins by more than 20% in a recent burst test. Credit: Sierra Space LONDON — Sierra Space has completed a second full-scale burst test of an ...

Gravitics, which is developing commercial space station modules, won a SpaceWERX SBIR contract to apply those technologies to tactically responsive space. Credit: Gravitics WASHINGTON — Gravitics, a ...