The U.S. Space Force is preparing to launch multiple spacecraft to geostationary orbit in 2027 for two separate in-space ...

UC Santa Cruz Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ricardo Sanfelice is the principal investigator on the $2.5M project to model complex aerospace engineering problems ...

A view of Tiangong space station taken by the departed Shenzhou-16 spacecraft crew in late October 2023. Credit: Credit: CMSEO HELSINKI — China’s Shenzhou-17 astronauts embarked on their first ...

TL;DR: It's difficult and expensive to repair satellites in space. So NASA is building semi-autonomous robots to service them in orbit. They also want to build stuff in orbit from scratch. When ...

Correction: An earlier version of this report misinterpreted the word "repair," which was used to mean replacing disabled satellites, not fixing them. The Space Force is moving ahead with experiments ...