Tag: microgravity
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Soyuz MS-28 Returns Expedition 74 After 241 Days
Did Expedition 74 Complete Its 8-Month ISS Mission Successfully? Soyuz MS-28 touched down southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan at 5:27 a.m. CDT on July 26, 2026, closing out a 241-day Expedition 74 mission that sent NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev around Earth 3,856 times. The crew departed the International…
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ESA Astronaut Tests EuroSuit Prototype Aboard ISS as Development Program Advances
A prototype of the European-developed EuroSuit intravehicular activity (IVA) spacesuit has undergone testing aboard the International Space Station (ISS), while a parallel water survival campaign has been completed on Earth as part of the suit’s ongoing development program. The EuroSuit initiative was launched by the French space agency CNES in late 2023 and is being…
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Varda Signs Pharma Deal for Orbital Drug Manufacturing
What pharma giant just signed with Varda for orbital manufacturing? Varda Space Industries has secured a partnership with a major U.S. pharmaceutical company to manufacture drugs in microgravity, marking the first commercial-scale orbital drug production deal. The agreement leverages Varda’s automated manufacturing capsules to produce pharmaceutical compounds that benefit from space’s unique environment, particularly protein…
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Varda Partners United Therapeutics for Microgravity Drug Manufacturing
Varda Space Industries has secured United Therapeutics as a pharmaceutical manufacturing partner for its Winnebago automated factories, targeting treatments for rare pulmonary diseases through microgravity processing. The collaboration leverages Varda’s 120-day orbital manufacturing platform to produce protein crystals and biologics that cannot be effectively manufactured under Earth’s gravity conditions. United Therapeutics brings $7.6 billion in…
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Blue Origin ‘one step closer’ to human flights after successful suborbital launch
This image from Blue Origin’s webcast of Thursday’s mission shows the New Shepard’s capsule just before touchdown in West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin Taking another step toward flying space tourists to the edge of space, Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin again flew its New Shepard suborbital booster Thursday with a package of microgravity research…
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Blue Origin readies reusable suborbital launcher for another flight
File photo of a New Shepard booster landing after a previous mission. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin teams in West Texas are preparing for another launch of the company’s reusable New Shepard suborbital rocket Thursday to loft dozens of microgravity research payloads to the edge of space. The single-stage rocket is set for liftoff from…
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Chinese space lab back on Earth after groundbreaking embryo experiment
Chinese technicians greet the Shijian 10 landing module after its touchdown Monday in the Inner Mongolia region. Credit: Xinhua/Chen Junqing An uncrewed spacecraft landed in China’s Inner Mongolia region Monday after nearly 13 days in orbit carrying an array of microgravity research experiments, including a groundbreaking investigation that showed mammal embryos can develop in space,…
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Chinese research craft launched on two-week mission
The Shijian 10 recoverable satellite lifted off at 1:38 a.m. Beijing time Wednesday. Credit: Xinhua The unpiloted Shijian 10 spacecraft launched from a spaceport in northwestern China on Tuesday with a suite of microgravity research experiments developed by Chinese and European scientists. The bullet-shaped space capsule soared into orbit aboard a Long March 2D rocket at…