European Spaceflight

Credit: Rocket Lab Rocket Lab has established a new subsidiary in Germany to enable it to offer scaled domestic production of satellites and launch services on both its Electron and Neutron rockets. The company formally announced Rocket Lab Germany GmbH o

Credit: Ambasciata d'Italia a Stoccolma Career diplomat Mario Cospito has been appointed extraordinary commissioner of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), taking over leadership of the agency following the death of its president, Teodoro Valente, and the diss

Credit: European Commission The European Commission, ESA and the SpaceRISE consortium have completed a key review of Europe's IRIS2 secure communications constellation, clearing the programme to move forward with full-scale implementation. The completion

Credit: ASI Three members of the Italian Space Agency's board of directors have resigned, resulting in the board's dissolution. This clears the way for the appointment of an extraordinary commissioner to lead the agency following the death of its presiden

Image credit: ArianeGroup The head of the French space agency CNES told lawmakers in April that a subscale prototype of a future reusable full-flow staged-combustion rocket engine is expected to be tested for the first time in 2028. CNES President Françoi

Credit: CNES / Spartan Space / Decathlon ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has completed a third and likely final test of EuroSuit, a European intravehicular activity (IVA) spacesuit prototype, aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The suit was develope

Credit: MaiaSpace ArianeGroup has decided against dissolving MaiaSpace after the company posted a €37.5 million loss for 2025, pushing its shareholders' equity below zero. According to the company's 2025 annual accounts, filed on 22 July 2026, MaiaSpace e

Credit: TMT Spain has offered a package worth up to €1 billion to support the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on La Palma in the Canary Islands. The Spanish site is currently the project's designated alternative, with Mauna Kea in Hawaii

Credit: ArianeGroup / SSC Space ArianeGroup has completed a wet dress rehearsal of the Themis reusable booster demonstrator at the Esrange Space Centre in Sweden, providing the first substantive update on the vehicle's test campaign in more than ten month

Credit: MaiaSpace MaiaSpace has scrapped plans to conduct a suborbital test flight of its Maia rocket, opting instead to proceed straight to a full orbital launch attempt for the vehicle's inaugural flight in the second half of 2027. Under its initial dev