International Space Station (ISS)

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

By Mark Carreau
Jonathan Cirtain has been appointed Axiom Space's chief executive officer (CEO), the Houston-based commercial space enterprise announced Oct. 15.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, made his international space debut at a global gathering in Sydney.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), crews already operate as if they live and work aboard two distinct stations.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded the Ad Astra Rocket Co. a $4 million, two-year contract for the continued development of the company's VASIMR concept.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
A NASA inspector general's audit raises safety and performance concerns about the agency's more than five-decade-old spacesuits.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
The Exploration Co., a European startup developing cargo, and eventually crewed, spacecraft for LEO, plans a 2028 flight test to the ISS.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space has contracted with the Redwire Corp. for a Roll-Out Solar Array for a component of a planned replacement for the International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
Voyager Technologies has contracted Vivace Corp. to manufacture the primary structure of the Starlab commercial space station.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
On-orbit service provider Arkisys has been selected by NASA to sustain and maintain the agency’s free-flying Astrobee robotic system on the ISS.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
The resupply capsule’s delayed rendezvous was due to the premature cutoff of the third and fifth post-launch orbital altitude raising maneuvers early Sept. 16.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space has launched the Axiom Space University Alliance.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA and Northrop Grumman are revising the flight plan for the Cygnus XL cargo ship to rendezvous with International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Solar activity—thought to rise and fall over 11 year cycles—has been on an incline since 2008, a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)-led study says.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
SpaceX is looking to fly the first of a new iteration of its Starship launch system late this year or early next year.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
Earlier this summer Maxar posted an image of a Chinese satellite taken by one of its WorldView Legion satellites in low Earth orbit.
Satellites