Space Symposium

By Jen DiMascio
In the last 20 years, the Missile Defense Agency has seen a shift in focus, from spending time defeating missiles that are deploying countermeasures to defending against coordinated attacks with maneuver and speed, MDA director Vice Adm. Jon Hill says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau, Irene Klotz
NASA appoints executive to oversee CASIS, reorganizes commercial programs.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
The first crewed flight test in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is targeted for a May 27 launch.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
Encouraged by progress in the Commercial Crew program, NASA should nonetheless expand planning for staffing the International Space Station long-term to provide options, NASA’s safety oversight panel said on April 23.
Space Symposium

By Mark Carreau
NASA's New Frontiers mission edges closer to sampling the asteroid Bennu.
Space Symposium

By Mark Carreau
2I/Borisov, the second comet of extrasolar origin to approach the Sun in recent years, brought with it an unprecedented glimpse into the chemistry of the planet-forming protoplanetary disc surrounding another star.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
The technical risks of landing and reflying rockets have been resolved, but the business case seems far from closed.
MRO

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s space activity is likely to be limited due to coronavirus restrictions, officials say.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
With automated flight safety systems, polar orbits from Florida are back in the offing.
Space Symposium

By Lee Hudson
The Department of the Air Force has conducted its first-ever Space Acquisition Council meeting and discussed the need for integration and synchronization across the national security space community, current and projected threats to U.S. interests in space, and the impact of the COVID-19 environment on the aerospace industry.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
NASA is approaching the 20th anniversary of human presence on the ISS with a key question: Who will be aboard to celebrate?
Space Symposium

By Thierry Dubois
France–The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo, the probe it launched in 2018 to study the planet Mercury, is performing a flyby of Earth this week as a gravity-assist maneuver in its seven-year-long journey.
Space Symposium

By Mark Carreau
“Honey, I shrunk the NASA payload,” is a global crowdsourcing initiative unveiled by the space agency on April 9 to significantly reduce the size of rugged instruments, sensors and experiments that can be launched to the Moon.
Space Symposium

By Mark Carreau
NASA will invest $7 million to advance a range of 23 early stage technologies with the potential to hasten the journey of humans to Mars and increase the odds of success for robotic missions selected to explore potentially habitable extrasolar planets and ocean worlds.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
Former astronaut Norm Thagard answers questions about his time in space and offers thoughts on how to stay busy while quarantining.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
President Donald Trump on April 6 signed a new national space policy directive reaffirming U.S. commitment to the commercial use of resources in space and encouraging international support for the policy.
Space Symposium

By Maxim Pyadushkin
S7 Space Corp. has completed the relocation of the Sea Launch complex from Long Beach, California, to Russia’s Far East.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
A third SpaceX Starship prototype was destroyed early April 3 during a tanking pressurization test with cryogenic nitrogen to simulate flight temperatures and pressures.
Space Symposium

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s long-term strategy for a sustained human exploration of the Moon is to produce scientific, economic and geopolitical dividends as well as establish a sustainable proving ground for longer missions to Mars—and all executed with commercial partners and global alliances.
Space Symposium

By Mark Carreau
NASA is reviving its stylized “worm” logo, the popular version of the acronym for the agency’s full name that was retired in 1992 following a 17-year run.
Space Symposium

By Jen DiMascio
The Space Development Agency plans to issue a request for proposals for an initial tranche of 20 satellites that will begin to form a low-latency network connecting all sensors, shooters and data from all domains of warfare.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
Virgin Orbit, a startup small-satellite launch company owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, will partner with Oita Prefecture, located on the island of Kyushu in Japan, to develop a horizontal launch site for its air-launched LauncherOne service.
Space Symposium

By Bradley Perrett
Taiwanese space launch company Tispace has rescheduled its first flight to June in response to the COVID-19 crisis while continuing development work and preparing for production.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
Satellite operator’s assets include spacecraft, global spectrum rights and ground stations.
Space Symposium

By Mark Carreau
More than 12,000 well-educated aspirants representing every U.S. state and territory have applied for an uncertain and perhaps modest number of openings in NASA’s astronaut corps.
Space Symposium