June 22, 2016 Paul Allen's massive space project is 76 percent done Paul Allen, billionaire earthling and co-founder of Microsoft, has long been obsessed with space, and his pet project Stratolaunch Systems is beginning to bear fruit.
June 22, 2016 India sends 20 satellites into orbit in historic launch India successfully launched a record 20 satellites aboard its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket late on Tuesday, marking another milestone for the country’s burgeoning space program.
June 21, 2016 India set for record satellite launch India is set to launch a record 20 satellites aboard its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket late on Tuesday.
June 15, 2016 SpaceX launches satellites, but rocket landing suffers 'unscheduled disassembly' SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Wednesday morning, successfully deploying two communications satellites but failing to land the rocket’s first stage on a floating barge, a feet the company had said would be hard.
June 13, 2016 On July 4, the Juno spacecraft will finally reach Jupiter NASA’s Juno spacecraft will enter into orbit around Jupiter on the Fourth of July, completing a journey of over 1.7 billion miles that began on August 5, 2011.
June 6, 2016 Feds reportedly set to approve first private space mission U.S. officials appear poised to make history by approving the first private space mission to go beyond Earth’s orbit, according to people familiar with the details.
June 3, 2016 Luxembourg sets aside funds for asteroid-mining push Seeking to lead the way in Europe to promote commercial ventures in space, Luxembourg is making a small but symbolic bet on the idea of mining asteroids.
June 2, 2016 Facebook Live — from space! Astronauts chat with Mark Zuckerberg Three space station astronauts chatted live on June 2 with Facebook's founder about experiments and fun in space, the things that training can't prepare you for, and the true astronaut ice cream.
June 1, 2016 DARPA requests designs for XS-1 military space plane The U.S. military's plans to build a satellite-launching robotic space plane are moving forward. On May 23, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) put out its official call for proposals for the futuristic space plane design.
May 31, 2016 NASA announces its space 'bounce house' has inflated The International Space Station has a new piece of real estate -- after technical difficulties last week astronauts have now inflated the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM).
