China's Space Station Is Growing

NASA has awarded a contract to develop new Artemis ready Eva suits to Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace in a bid to replace their own aging suits.

The two companies will have until 2025 to design and test new suit technology for low Earth orbit operations and lunar exploration.

The Chinese space station's new crew preps for expansion.

A Stanford University experiment is being flown to the International Space Station to test a biopolymer concrete that can be made in space.

The experiment is attempting to use local resources like lunar regolith or Martian dirt, along with organic compounds, to make a better building material.

The fast growth of the Chinese station and success of their missions is certainly good news for the country's prospects in orbit and beyond.

Sony Space Commissions will focus on using optical disk technology to aid communication in low orbit.

SSC hopes to create ultra compact, lightweight and cheap communication devices for satellites beaming information back and forth on lasers.

Sony says this year they conducted a file transfer experiment that was able to successfully transmit high definition images to an optical communication ground station in Japan from the ISS using their small optical link.