Space

The rocket lifted off from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Aug. 6 with 18 Qianfan “Thousand Sails” satellites.

Ispace distributed an image of a Komatsu tracked excavator on the lunar surface as part of its Aug. 8 announcement.

The rocket is intended for a September 2028 inaugural launch as part of the Artemis IV mission.

Experts from the U.S. and Australia have performed tests on the Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR) in an anechoic chamber to mimic contested and limited GPS conditions.

Eutelsat says the slower-than-expected deployment of some OneWeb ground infrastructure is denting sales growth, also flagging a likely delay to its Flexsat.

Long Beach, California-based Rocket Lab recorded sales of $106 million, up 71% year-on-year, in the April-June period.

As the AIAA's Aviation Forum and Ascend events come together for the first time in Las Vegas, editors review some of the cutting-edge developments shared there.

The CODA system automatically translates and standardizes commercially derived data points to support space domain awareness missions.

The spacecraft’s propulsion system issues are driving plans to end Boeing’s Crew Flight Test.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Data from 363 prior missions was key for the speedy return to flight.

But how to return the Perseverance collection to Earth remains to be determined.

Suborbital space tourism company Virgin Galactic has revealed new details of its long-term business model.

If Starliner’s return is uncrewed, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams would remain aboard the International Space Station (ISS) until February.

The SDA’s Warfighter Integration Cell conducted a series of Link-16 tests over a two-day period.

L3 Harris has signed a contract for up to 20 launches aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket.

Impulse Space has debuted a space tug program to carry satellites to geostationary orbit.

Axiom Space co-founder Mike Suffredini will transition from CEO to long-term member of the company's six-person board of directors and advisor for "personal reasons."

NASA will postpone the launch of its next crew to the ISS to allow more time to review the ongoing Boeing CST-100 Starliner mission at the orbital outpost.

Outfitted with both ultraviolet and short-wave infrared telescopes, Deep Purple is one of two instruments comprising NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator, targeted to launch mid-August.

The Space Systems Command’s System Engineering Review Board recommended the fueling port.

The concept of missile defeat involves two elements, according to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command.

The resupply capsule contains materials for scientific investigations into the bio-manufacturing of human organs in space for human transplant on Earth, among other experiments.

The Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat) will move to the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City beginning next year.

Water-based thruster specialist Pale Blue plans to demonstrate an ion thruster in early 2025.