Karina Perez Molina has not always felt represented in the space industry. At space conferences in the past, she sees herself more in the service staff than in the keynotes and experts on stage. Perez Molina, who is a co-founder of the Zed Factor Fellowship, which encourages students from underrepresented backgrounds in aerospace careers, appeared…

An all-civilian crew dubbed Inspiration4 is currently orbiting the Earth in a major milestone for commercial spaceflight. SpaceX launched the crew of Inspiration4 on a Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday evening from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.  The group is going through a three-day journey on a Crew Dragon spacecraft, orbiting many times around the Earth. …

NASA has awarded five companies contracts to mature sustainable lunar landing concepts as part of its Artemis program, the agency announced Tuesday.  Dynetics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin, and SpaceX received firm fixed-price, milestone-based contracts that are worth a combined $146 million. This awards fall under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2).…

Capella Space has launched its Open Data Program to make its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data publicly accessible, the company announced Tuesday.  This program makes SAR data — which can see through clouds and darkness — available to researchers, nonprofits, developers and disaster response organizations. The available dataset is 60 scenes, representing every continent and…