Space

Aselsan is looking to start delivering a new low-Earth-orbit (LEO) communications satellite constellation for Turkey in 2-3 years.

China plans space station expansion and advances crewed lunar mission testing ahead of its 2030 Moon landing goal.

NASA has awarded Viridian Space a contract to design aerodynamic control surfaces for satellites maneuvering in very low Earth orbit.

The Defense Department has reached a $22.4 million accord with Voyager Technologies to provide prototypes of next-generation satellite deployment systems for the U.S. Space Force.

Satellite manufacturer York Space Systems will support a set of future U.S. Space Force missions in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO).

Leonardo is expanding the list of industrial partners for its Space Guardian communications and Earth-observation constellation with an agreement to work with Unibap Space Solutions.

NASA and SpaceX have moved departure of the Crew-12 Dragon capsule from the International Space Station (ISS) from no earlier than Oct. 5 to early Oct. 7.

German defense sensor-maker Hensoldt plans an on-orbit demonstration of a laser warning receiver.

Turkey aims to repeat its success in turning its drone ambitions into a globally competitive industry in space, the country’s industry and technology minister, Mehmet Fatih Kacır, said Oct. 5.

North Korea says it has demonstrated an intermediate-range strategic missile incorporating artificial intelligence to alter its flightpath at low altitude.

Open Cosmos plans to deploy an initial 192-satellite communications satellite constellation to support its Earth observation effort and says it is hunting for additional near-term launch services.

Starlink commands the market as Gogo enters the surging low-Earth-orbit connectivity space.

The Space Development Agency is ready to launch a third vendor’s satellites into low Earth orbit as early as Oct. 5.

NorthStar Earth & Space, a startup providing sats for space situational awareness, debuted as a publicly traded company but saw its stock price lose ground.

NASA has awarded $1.4 billion in contracts to 16 companies for enterprise support services and equipment management.

Space entrepreneur Walt Anderson aims to deploy airships to provide affordable telecommunications to underserved markets in Southeast Asia, Africa or the Caribbean.

The U.S. Space Force is launching the first operational air moving target indicator satellites. Is the warfighter ready to use them?

After a decade in development, SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy transport reaches orbit for a test run.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Dragon spacecraft conducted a successful autonomous docking to the U.S. segment of the seven-person International Space Station on Oct. 1.

The last of the U.S. military’s Cold War-era missile warning satellites got a final dance on orbit as part of a recent exercise before their planned retirement.

SpaceX plans at least one more flight test of its Starship-Super Heavy launch system from Starbase, Texas, before the program launches from Kennedy Space Center.

Firefly Aerospace plans to carry Starcloud’s artificial intelligence (AI) computing payload aboard its Elytra lunar orbiter scheduled to launch as soon as 2028.

Europe would need about a decade to develop an independent human spaceflight capability, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher says.

Portuguese space component maker Omnidea says it has acquired what is left of British rocket startup Orbex, which folded this year.

PLD Space has signed an agreement with the French space agency CNES that could see its proposed Miura 9 rocket fly from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.