International Space Station (ISS)

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
After three orbital flight tests, Boeing’s crewed passenger spacecraft still needs work.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
The nonprofit Aurelia Institute has opened a global competition that looks beyond the ISS, to build an infrastructure to live and work in near-Earth venues.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
All eight of the International Space Station’s docking and berthing ports have parked crew and resupply spacecraft—a first.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
Roscosmos says it is inspecting damage to the launchpad used Nov. 27 to ferry three crewmembers to the International Space Station.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft on Thursday brought NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev to the ISS.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman two additional Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) missions to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Northrop Grumman’s initial Cygnus XL resupply capsule for the International Space Station has been temporarily unberthed from the orbital lab’s U.S. segment.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner orbital spacecraft will make another uncrewed flight to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
A bipartisan group of five U.S. senators has introduced legislation to boost post-International Space Station research in space.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Representatives of four commercial companies developing successors to the International Space Station have offered insights.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Sierra Space plans to return its first Dream Chaser to its manufacturing facility for modifications aimed at securing national security flight services.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
Three Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station were advised to bunk down in the U.S. Destiny Laboratory due to this week’s geomagnetic storms.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NLM Photonics’ analysis of its patented silicon organic hybrid electro-optic photonic chips in LEO orbit is underway aboard the International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
Vast has begun orbital operations of a technology demonstration satellite hosting subsystems and components for its planned Haven-1 crewed orbital outpost.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
The European Space Agency has launched a project to explore the creation of protein in low Earth orbit to support future space exploration missions.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s HII Transfer Vehicle-X (HTV X-1) successfully rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 29.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky marched through a seven-hour, multitask spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 28.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
Before year’s end, a startup plans to launch inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage a manufacturing pod that would briefly experience the vacuum of space.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
JAXA's launch of the new HII Transfer Vehicle-X ends a 5 1/2-year hiatus for its cargo deliveries to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
Dream Chaser’s debut, originally targeted for 2021, has been repeatedly delayed.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
An ex-NASA administrator has urged the U.S. to maintain a permanent human presence in low Earth orbit after the end of the International Space Station.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
As NASA marches toward Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than a half century, the agency is on the verge of another historic milestone.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
JAXA, Sierra Space and The Exploration Co. hope their craft will join the fleet of station cargo ships.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Two cosmonauts conducted a spacewalk outside the Russian segment of the International Space Station on Oct. 16.
Space Exploration