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The British Ambassador to Turkey celebrated the country's young engineers and scientists at TEKNOFEST, highlighting fresh opportunities for UK-Turkey tech collaboration. The southeastern city of Şanlıurfa hosted the aerospace festival that wrapped up Sunday.
A German rocket company founded just eight years ago has become the first European firm to reach orbit with its own launcher, marking a major milestone for the continent's space independence. The successful flight comes after a crash landing last year and positions Europe to rely less on foreign rockets.
Just days after a rocket explosion grounded its fleet, China successfully completed back-to-back space missions, proving its space program's resilience. The launches included 24 internet satellites and a satellite for the United Arab Emirates.
A Japanese startup is bringing its lunar dreams home by choosing a domestically built rocket for its next moonshot. After two setbacks with international launches, Ispace is betting on Japanese technology to finally stick the landing in 2028.
The founders of Skyroot Aerospace briefed India's Prime Minister on their successful Vikram-1 launch, marking a historic moment for private space innovation. Their achievement shows how policy reform can unlock an entire industry's potential.
SpaceX successfully launched and landed its massive Starship rocket in the Indian Ocean, marking a major milestone for the future of space exploration. The test flight came just days after the company overcame engine problems that stopped last week's launch attempt.
A tiny startup with only 12 employees just built a 200-kilogram spacecraft that can bring experiments back from space and fly again. Reditus Space is proving that the future of space research doesn't have to take years or cost millions.
China just pulled off something no country has ever done: perfectly landing a reusable rocket on its very first flight. The Long March 10B joins an elite club and shows how the global space race is heating up in the best possible way.
Malaysia is set to produce its own rockets within two years, marking a major leap in aerospace independence. The partnership with Australian technology firms aims to strengthen national defense while building a self-reliant future.
Brazil's capital is becoming a major center for space innovation with a new hub connecting researchers, universities, and tech developers. The initiative aims to turn scientific breakthroughs into real-world aerospace solutions across Latin America.
For nearly 70 years, Vandenberg Space Force Base and NASA have teamed up to launch missions exploring everything from ocean patterns to distant galaxies. Their latest success, the SPHEREx telescope, is already mapping hundreds of millions of galaxies and discovering interstellar objects passing through our solar system.
NASA's experimental X-59 jet just flew faster than sound while staying whisper-quiet, bringing us closer to supersonic flights without the ear-splitting noise. The breakthrough could change air travel forever.