Space

By Mark Carreau
The American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation has signed a lease agreement with NASA’s JSC to become a second tenant of the center’s Exploration Park.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Scrappy Houston startup Intuitive Machines puts the U.S. back on the surface of the Moon.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The JAXA Smart Lander for Investigating Moon set a standard Intuitive Machines hopes to meet with its Odysseus lunar lander soon.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin Ventures participated in a $15 million Series A funding round for Elve Inc., a startup developing millimeter wave amplifiers.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s planned Mars Sample Return mission faces significant obstacles, an IG report says.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Launched in September 2016 as Osiris-Rex, the mission dropped off samples from the asteroid Bennu during a flyby of Earth on Sept. 24, 2023.
Space

Aviation Week Staff
Roscosmos’ Soyuz 2.1b rocket with a Fregat booster orbited a batch of Russian satellites and an Iranian spacecraft on Feb. 29.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Expected poor weather downrange, a concern in case of a launch abort, has delayed SpaceX's Crew-8 launch.
Space

By Irene Klotz
India named four air force officers to become the founding members of the country’s Gaganyaan astronaut corps.
Space

By Mark Carreau
A NASA safety panel on Feb. 28 identified two issues that it is watching especially closely as the agency prepares for the Artemis II mission.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Northrop Grumman plans to lay off up to 1,000 employees at its Space Park facilities in Redondo Beach, California.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Virgin Galactic is reporting a net loss of $502.34 million in 2023, including a loss of $102.3 million in the fourth quarter.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
The co-founders of Astra Space have offered a new, lower buyout bid for the embattled space startup.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Three months after SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy’s second flight test ended in a mid-air explosion, the FAA closed its accident investigation.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Japan’s Smart Lander For Investigating Moon (SLIM) survived a two-week lunar night and powered up over the weekend.
Space

By Garrett Reim
SpaceX plans to place its first direct-to-cellular phone Starlink constellation in orbit by the end of August.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Intuitive Machines expects to lose communications with its Nova-C lunar lander Odysseus early on Feb. 27 after 4 1/2 days on the Moon’s surface.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Dana Weigel, NASA’s International Space Station deputy program manager since 2021, is taking over as the 15-nation orbital lab’s program manager.
Space

NASA, SpaceX and Russia’s Roscosmos are preparing for the first seven-person, multiweek crew exchange of 2024 aboard the International Space Station.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Flight controllers at Intuitive Machines conducted their first mission on the Moon’s surface Feb. 23.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The tenure of Frank Calvelli as the Department of the U.S. Air Force’s space acquisition boss has been defined by a few key tenets.
Space

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) team has conducted a preliminary design review for the mission and discussed its latest developments.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Fully funded and hardware-rich, Blue Origin readies for orbital operations.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Flight directors at Intuitive Machines’ mission control center were working to refine the signal from its Nova-C lander, which touched down on the Moon Feb. 22.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) faces long-running challenges in addressing safety concerns for human commercial spaceflight passengers.
Space