Install
Space News from SpaceDaily.Com brings the space industry professional daily news from the frontier, with contract, bid, launch and on-orbit satellite news as it happens.
- 723articles · 30d
- 13+ hour agolatest article
- Aug 15, 2026earliest in window
- 97%with images
- 147avg words
- Science & Nature 568
- Science & Technology 483
- STEM 373
- Environment 116
- Pets & Animals 104
- People & Society 41
- Arts, Culture, Entertainment & Media 40
- News 39
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
A 250-seat jet is being built with four aisles instead of one. The reason is the shape: when you blend wings directly into a body wide enough to hold a small apartment, a single corridor down the middle no longer makes any sense
3+ week, 3+ day ago (217+ words) Picture the last plane you flew on. However big or small it was, the basic layout was the same one passengers have known since the 1950s: a long metal tube,...
On 28 October 1971, a British Black Arrow rocket put Prospero into orbit from the Australian desert — Parliament had been told on 29 July that the programme would end after this flight, leaving the next rocket to become an unflown museum exhibit.
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (611+ words) Black Arrow launched Prospero after Parliament had been told the programme would end. The unflown R4 rocket preserved the next step that never happened....
In 1959, a Volvo safety engineer named Nils Bohlin designed the three-point seatbelt still used in almost every car on Earth today — and Volvo made one unusual decision immediately afterward: it opened the patent to every competitor, calculating that saving lives mattered more than owning the design
2+ week, 3+ day ago (345+ words) Why would a company hand a rival the one thing worth patenting? That question sits at the center of a decision Volvo made more than six decades ago, and it...
On 7 August, Elon Musk said Ship 40's ocean recovery was “not looking good.” Eleven days later, on 18 August, it was towed intact to waters off Christmas Island — the first Starship upper stage ever recovered intact after returning from space.
3+ week, 5+ day ago (891+ words) After 24 days at sea, recovery crews guided the first intact Starship upper stage to calmer water off Christmas Island, preserving an unprecedented post-flight test article....