Northrop Grumman’s Space Logistics is trying to let the U.S. Space Force know that it could extend the lives of older geosynchronous satellites or potentially add new capabilities to them.
Eighteen days after OneWeb decided to suspend launches of its broadband satellites from Russia in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the company has signed with SpaceX.
Engineers at the Imperial College of London have created a virtual wind tunnel called PyFR, capable of simulating the atmospheric conditions on Mars for the testing of rotorcraft blade designs.
Disruption of commercial and scientific cooperation with Western countries because of the conflict in Ukraine is likely to cause Russia’s space-launch campaign to be reduced by one-third this year.
After releasing its satellite computer vision and guidance software in January, Scout has raised an undisclosed bridge round of financing led by venture capital firm Decisive Point.
Russia’s Soyuz MS-21 successfully launched and docked to the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment on March 18, delivering cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov.
The first NASA-backed private astronaut mission to the International Space Station has been retargeted for launch no earlier than April 3 due to additional time needed for transportation provider SpaceX to prepare the Crew Dragon spacecraft chartered by Axiom Space.
NASA’s strategy for transitioning its operations aboard the International Space Station to an assortment of commercial free flyers over the coming decade faces a number of opportunity-nurtured challenges, a panel of experts with a stake in the outcome says.
NASA’s debut Space Launch System rocket began an overnight ride from Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B on March 17, a major milestone in a 10-year, $20 billion effort to develop a heavy-lift rocket capable of sending astronauts back to the Moon.
The European Space Agency has suspended the ExoMars 2022 program, a cooperative effort with Russian space agency Roscosmos to look for traces of life underneath the surface of Mars.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command and Boeing recently finished a critical design review of the company’s Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype.
Driven by exponential growth in the number of proposed satellites in low Earth orbit and beyond this decade, investors and entrepreneurs are eyeing commercial-oriented space situational awareness (SSA) as a growth sector worthy of new investments, entrants and partnerships.
Satellite imagery appears to confirm that a Ukrainian attack on an airfield previously captured by Russian forces resulted in the destruction of several Russian helicopters.
Cablex, Crystalaid, Ferra, Levett, Lovitt, Nupress and Quickstep Holdings all inked memorandums of agreement with Boeing ahead of the JP9102 down selection.
NASA has agreed to address so-called insider cybersecurity threats to its unclassified programs in response to an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general.
Less than five weeks after technical issues thwarted Astra Space’s first commercial mission, the Alameda, California, startup returned to the launchpad March 15 with a successful flight for another paying customer.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by an American on March 15 while aboard the International Space Station.
