On July 23, 2026, the European demonstrator, Themis, successfully completed a wet dress rehearsal at the Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden. This test allowed teams from ArianeGroup and SSC Space (the company managing the Esrange spaceport) to simulate the full day's operational sequence
The testing campaign for the ETNA (Exploration Technology for Navigation & Autonomy) rover, developed as part of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Universal Locomotion System program, has successfully concluded. For several weeks, the rover operated on the slopes of Mount Etna, tackling volcanic
Telespazio has unveiled a new S/X band satellite antenna on Santa Maria Island, located in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. This new infrastructure is a significant addition to the company's international ground station network and will be utilized for communications with low Earth or
On July 20, 1969, the world paused to witness an event that would forever alter our perception of our place in space. The Apollo 11 mission's Eagle module, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard, landed on the Moon, marking a turning point in the history of human exploration. As the words
In April of this year, four individuals embarked on a journey to the Moon. This had not happened since 1972, when the Apollo 17 mission, the last of the previous lunar exploration program, was launched in December. Now, in 2026, we can finally say that the Artemis Program has begun, starting wi
Vast, the American company developing the commercial space station Haven-1, announced on April 10th the appointment of Giorgio Saccoccia as its President for Europe. He will be the company's first executive based in Europe and will be tasked with leading its European presence, collaborating wi
The PoET (Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope) solar telescope, installed at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, has conducted its initial observations. This milestone, known as first light, marks the commencement of the instrument's operations
After achieving historic milestones like sending humans beyond Earth's orbit for the first time in over five decades and setting a new human distance record from Earth, the Artemis II mission is now facing its most critical phase: re-entry. This moment, as exhilarating as the launch, carries s
The inaugural crewed flight of the Artemis program has achieved one of its most anticipated milestones: a successful lunar flyby, completed during the Italian night between April 6 and 7, 2026. The Orion capsule "Integrity," carrying astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch,
The launch of the SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) mission, a collaborative effort between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), originally scheduled for April 9, 2026, aboard the European Vega-C rocket's VV29 mission, has been
Four days, six hours, and two minutes after its launch, the Artemis II mission crew achieved a critical milestone on their journey to the Moon: entering the lunar sphere of influence. This designates the region of space where the Moon's gravitational pull exerts a greater influence on the Orio
On April 4, 2026, at 1:46 AM local time (7:46 AM Italian time), a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On board were 29 satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper constellation, for the LA-05 (Leo Atlas 5) mission. With this latest deployment, th