Two spacewalking astronauts will revive their attempt to install a replacement high-data-rate Ku band communications antenna outside the International Space Station on Aug. 25.
As operating satellites in space becomes more lucrative and more prone to impacts some companies are looking for new ways to harden spacecraft against collisions.
Starfighters Space is in litigation with its ex-CEO and his wife for allegedly removing or spending millions of dollars of the Florida company’s funds without board authorization.
Indian launch startup Skyroot says it is ramping up production to support an annual launch cadence of 12 missions by the end of 2027, following its July orbital launch during its first flight test.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk projects the first reflight of a Starship upper stage within the coming months as the launch service provider looks to demonstrate full reusability of its heavy-launch system.
Lilly Etzenbach is a 2026 20 Twenties winner and a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her groundbreaking research focuses on transforming the economics of space access through innovative reusability frameworks for launch systems.
NASA has selected a winner for its “Rock and Roll” lunar wheel challenge, a competition to find lightweight and durable wheels for long-duration lunar rover surface operations.
The low-budget attempt to restore NASA’s gamma ray-hunting Swift space telescope into an operational orbit has been canceled due to attitude control issues with the servicing spacecraft.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has alerted top NASA officials of lapses in the agency’s implementation of four “priority recommendations" related to program cost and risk.
Chinese commercial space company LandSpace Technology Corporation has landed the first-stage booster of a ZhuQue-3 rocket, marking the country's first successful recovery of an orbital-class booster by a commercial launch company.
Three weeks after an unexpectedly soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean, a SpaceX Starship spacecraft has been towed to the waters off Christmas Island for additional post-flight analysis.
Two spacewalkers experienced delays Aug. 18 that prevented them from completing work on the exterior of the International Space Station’s U.S. segment.
NASA has selected four companies to provide commercial payload processing services for agency mission launches from multiple sites where the capabilities were not available at the time of initial mission contract awards.
Less than two months after going public, Elon Musk has a different message for SpaceX investors and workers: The company is going to be all about AI, not space.
