Space

By Irene Klotz
In 2024, India and Boeing aim for low Earth orbit, while NASA eyes an excursion around the Moon.
Space

By Graham Warwick
From new fighters to launchers, airline production ramps to air taxi certifications, 2024 will be a busy year.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Space Force says its personnel track more than 6,500 potential missile events each month.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Bad weather has delayed Intuitive Machines, Inc.’s planned launch of its first Nova-C lunar lander to no earlier than mid-February, the company said.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The head of the service says analysis is focusing on physical coverage gaps, along with ways to quickly analyze data.
Space

By Irene Klotz
After a 15-month hiatus to address a booster nozzle issue that caused its last launch to fail, Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle returned to suborbital space.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Axiom Space plans to install a data center on Hab One to be linked to the ISS and use laser communications equipment to connect it to Earth-orbiting satellites.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
As hardware prices come down, Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to connect “tens of millions of customers.”
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
The PE owners of legacy space-based services provider Maxar have divested their RF business that Maxar had acquired just 11 months earlier.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK Space Agency says it has taken on board criticism over the slow pace of licensing and the high cost of insurance associated with space launches.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, has been awarded the first-ever UK Civil Aviation Authority license for a vertical-launch site.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The service is adding a new approach to launch contracting, as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture takes shape.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
Rocket Lab’s 42nd launch of a two-stage Electron booster lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:05 p.m. EST Dec. 14.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA has offered a preview of Sierra Space’s reusable Dream Chaser resupply demonstration mission to the International Space Station planned for 2024.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force has finished a draft concept of operations for ground-moving target indication missions from space.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The uncrewed vehicle, which Xinhua described as a test platform, was launched by the two-stage Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. military sees orbital transfer vehicles keeping adversaries guessing.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Amazon’s two Project Kuiper prototype satellites have transmitted 100 gigabits per second of data using laser communications equipment.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force’s long-awaited strategy for buying commercial capabilities will likely be released early next year.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Stennis Space Center has installed four large thrust diffusers in preparation for Green Run testing of the Block IB Exploration Upper Stage Artemis upgrade.
Space

The UAE Space Agency concluded the first participation of the Space Pavilion in the 28th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP 28).
Space

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space is looking at Jan. 9 for the launch of its third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Dawn Aerospace has run a full-duration, bipropellant ground test of its Mk-II Aurora spaceplane’s rocket engine.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
UK Space Command is looking to be on contract next year for a cluster of synthetic aperture radar satellites.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office is tasked with meeting critical needs in space.
Space