Spacecraft

Starlink to reconfigure satellites into lower, safer orbit in 2026

This comes after Starlink said in December that one of its satellites experienced an anomaly in space, creating a "small" amount of debris and cutting off communications with the spacecraft.

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SPACEX STARLINK 5 satellites are pictured in the sky seen from Svendborg on South Funen, Denmark April 21, 2020.
This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera, July 21, 2025.

NASA releases images of comet 3I/ATLAS, rejects alien spacecraft 'rumors'

While the comet's precise point of origin remains unclear, the NASA scientists said they believe it hails from a solar system older than our own, which formed about 4.5 billion years ago.

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Astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie attend a see-off ceremony for the Shenzhou-20 spaceflight mission at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China April 24, 2025.

Chinese astronauts' return delayed to Earth after debris hits spacecraft

China’s space agency said that the delay was to ensure the astronauts’ safety and health and has not yet announced alternative dates for Dong, Zhongrui, and Jie’s return.

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The spacecraft is on its way to crash into the asteroid’s moon

How the world won’t be destroyed: NASA found a solution to a worrying problem

NASA proved for the first time that a small spacecraft can deflect an asteroid. The DART mission collided with Dimorphos, showing humanity can protect itself from cosmic disasters.

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Iran aims to test astronaut-ready space capsules by March

Iran hopes to send an astronaut into space in the next five to six years.

DECEMBER 4, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A first military satellite named Noor is launched into orbit by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, in Semnan, Iran April 22, 2020

Space is full of 200 tons of garbage. Now what?

Space is filled with deadly rocket debris and tons of human waste.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023ByMAARIV ONLINE

Chandrayaan-3 lands on moon in historic moment for India

The successful landing marks its emergence as a space power as the government looks to spur investment in private space launches and related satellite-based businesses.

AUGUST 23, 2023ByREUTERS
A view of the moon as viewed by the Chandrayaan-3 lander during Lunar Orbit Insertion on August 5, 2023 in this screengrab from a video released August 6, 2023.

Why are space agencies racing to the Moon's south pole?

In 2009 water was discovered on the surface of the Moon's south pole. Now a new space race has developed to be the first to access these frozen reserves.

AUGUST 22, 2023ByREUTERS
The Lunar south Pole as photographed June 23, 1996

What did China's rover discover hidden under the moon's surface? - study

The find could prove that volcanic activity on the moon didn't end 1 billion years ago, but may still be active today.

AUGUST 21, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 shows the Zeeman crater located on the far side of the moon, August 17, 2023

Moon landing anticipation builds for India after Russia's crash

A successful mission would make India only the fourth country to successfully land on the moon, after the former USSR, the United States and China.

AUGUST 21, 2023ByREUTERS
The words 'India Moon Mission', Moon and an Indian flag are seen in this illustration, August 21, 2023.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter performs test flight on Mars in rare footage

"We do not have a problem", research on the red planet will continue after a malfunction called it into question.

AUGUST 20, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
NASA's Perseverance rover filmed the Ingenuity helicopter during its 54th flight.

Russia's Luna-25 smashes into moon in failure

Russia's moon mission failed after the Luna-25 spacecraft slammed into the moon.

AUGUST 20, 2023ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, August 11, 2023.

Russia's lunar lander hit by unspecified 'emergency situation'

The nature of the "emergency situation" and how it may impact the lander's landing on the moon is as of yet unclear.

AUGUST 20, 2023ByTZVI JOFFRE
Specialists take part in preparations ahead of the launch of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 mission to search for ice near the south pole of the moon, at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region, Russia, in this handout photo published August 1, 2023.

The Israeli flag was taken onto the first commercial space flight

Keisha Schahaff, who is married to an Israeli husband, and her 18-year-old daughter, Ana Mayers, wore the flags of Scotland and Israel on their suits.

AUGUST 12, 2023ByMAARIV
RICHARD BRANSON prepares to spray champagne after flying with a crew in Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane ‘VSS Unity’ on July 11.