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  • NASA’s Partners Are Complicating Plans to Build ISS Replacement

    NASA’s Partners Are Complicating Plans to Build ISS Replacement

    NASA’s plans to retire the International Space Station and replace it with commercial projects are not kaput, they’re just changing. Wrinkles are now appearing in Blue Origin’s plans for Orbital Reef, while Northrop Grumman’s unnamed space station project might not even happen. Ars Technica reports that Northrop Grumman may be ending its contract with NASA…


  • Voyager Space and Airbus to Collaborate on Commercial Successor to the ISS

    Voyager Space and Airbus to Collaborate on Commercial Successor to the ISS

    Colorado-based company Voyager Space is collaborating with Europe’s Airbus to build a commercial space station in low Earth orbit that will succeed the International Space Station (ISS) following its retirement. The two companies announced on Wednesday that they were furthering their partnership on the space station and will now work together to develop, build, and…


  • The Final Airbus Beluga XL Is Ready for Takeoff

    The Final Airbus Beluga XL Is Ready for Takeoff

    It’s a tough time to be an enormous aircraft these days, just ask the Boeing 747 that went out of production at the end of 2022. Now, after killing off its own super-sized passenger plane in 2021, Airbus has brought production of its bonkers looking Beluga cargo plane to an end this week.