Tue, 21-Oct-2025

NASA awards $415 mn to fund three commercial space stations

NASA

WASHINGTON – NASA on Thursday awarded three companies hundreds of millions of dollars to develop commercial space stations it hopes will eventually replace the International Space Station, which is due to retire around the end of the decade. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, aerospace company Nanoracks and defense contractor Northrop Grumman won $130 million, $160 million … Read more

SpaceX: Falcon Heavy launching clipper mission to Europa

NASA has long had Jupiter’s moon Europa in its sights for scientific research. Researchers are attracted by its large deep ocean and the possibility of life. However, It was revealed over the weekend that SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will be used to launch the Clipper spacecraft. Europa is Jupiter’s fourth biggest moon. Moreover, it’s subsurface ocean … Read more