Space

A young space domain awareness company founded by a former French Space Command leader is ready to provide commercial data to customers as it brings its first radar online and expands into the U.S.

German startup ATMOS Space Cargo is formalizing its pursuit of defense space-logistics business.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready to depart Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland for launch from Kennedy Space Center as soon as September.

One of the U.S. Space Force’s main acquisition offices could soon undergo a significant revamp.

SpaceX and the U.S. Space Force launched the 10th GPS III satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket on April 21 from Cape Canaveral SFS.

Lockheed Martin is speeding up work to complete the next three Orion spacecraft for NASA’s restructured Artemis lunar program.

Blue Origin says initial data suggests one of two BE-3U upper-stage engines did not deliver sufficient thrust to dispatch the AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 7 satellite to its intended orbit.

Europe leans into climate science with new missions as U.S. turns away from such projects.

Listen in as our editors discuss the buzz over Artemis II, the push for multiyear milspace predicaments and the return of nuclear reactors.

NASA has overreached in its industry-partnered efforts to develop new generations of astronaut spacesuits, an agency IG report says

Sierra Space is attaching the last batch of thermal protection tiles to its Dream Chaser vehicle prior to a final integrated fight software load test.

Latvia on April 20 became the 62nd signatory to NASA’s Artemis Accords.

Airbus, Radmor and Thales Alenia Space are joining forces to build a geostationary military communications satellite for Poland.

Shea Ferring CTO of Firefly Aerospace, shares how intentional culture and passion drove Blue Ghost's lunar mission success at Aviation Week's 2026 Laureate Awards.

European military officials are in the closing stages of reviewing high-level requirements for the future Earth-observation constellation.

The UK Space Agency is reaching out to industry as it looks to build out plans for developing a local in-orbit servicing, assembly and manufacturing capability.

AST SpaceMobile says it will need to deorbit BlueBird 7 after Blue Origin placed the satellite in an “off-nominal” orbit following its launch on a New Glenn rocket.

Artemis II astronauts conducted lunar far side observations, immune studies, and organ-on-chip research, advancing science.

Read our special report on the Apollo 8 mission, in which we publish crew images that show, in close proximity, the lunar landscape with striking detail of the Moon's topography.

Mobility provided by an advanced pressure suit designed by the Hamilton Standard Div. of United Aircraft Corps. enabled an astronaut to perform a wide variety of exercises. See more images in our photo feature in the archives.

The three-person crew of Shenzhou-21 will remain in orbit for about one additional month to validate technologies onboard the Tiangong Space Station.

Blue Origin will attempt to launch its third New Glenn rocket between 6:45 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. EDT April 19 from Cape Canaveral SFS, the company says.

The four Artemis II mission astronauts, each mobile, smiling and congenial, spoke enthusiastically during an April 16 news briefing.

In an interview with Aviation Week, former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine expressed concerns about the United States’ ability to outpace China in the race to return astronauts to the Moon.

The Artemis II flight test around the Moon has galvanized attention on cislunar space well beyond NASA.