Space

Another round of thruster tests are set for this weekend, and an agency return readiness review is set for late next week.

“This rock could potentially be very important,” says Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist.

A UK team has begun flight tests of an airborne 5G connectivity system.

Falcon 9 success streak ends after 325 consecutive flights.

NASA’s presence at EAA AirVenture 2024 drew a multitude of attendees to view its exhibits.

The service in 2023 awarded contracts to SES Space & Defense.

Blue Origin says it has resolved a problem that impaired operation of one of three parachutes on the last flight of its New Shepard suborbital system.

The U.S. Space Force has added another mission to the ongoing National Security Space Launch Phase 2 program.

The Lafayette, Colorado-based company will also increase its UK-based workforce to 15 employees and open a new office in Oxfordshire.

The demonstration aims to show Astroscale’s servicer spacecraft removing a Eutelsat OneWeb satellite from orbit.

The booster will be taken to the Vehicle Assembly Building for flight preparations for Artemis II.

Previously a British Army Air Corps officer and test pilot, Peake is a veteran of a Russian Soyuz-launched 186-day mission to the International Space Station.

NASA is proceeding with plans to set up a new global Lunar Exploration Ground Sites communications network to support upcoming Moon missions seeking to establish a sustained human presence there.

Leonardo is talking to Airbus and Thales about linking their satellite manufacturing businesses, officials say—which could help the companies to deal with slow demand.

ABL uses a deployable ground system that can be set up on a flat concrete pad.

The grid would provide long-term support of habitats, rovers and scientific research at the Moon’s south pole.

The 100-day mission was designed to hunt for water ice near the lunar south pole.

The 2024 National Strategy for the Arctic Region was released July 22.

"We are still taking a look at the cause of the water leak and what we want to do to recover," says Dana Weigel, NASA's ISS program manager.

Airbus is starting to make changes to its satellite plans, including becoming more conservative on potentially high-risk programs, after a series of earnings hits.

The Swedish Air Force has begun a study into the possibility of launching a satellite from its Saab Gripen fighter aircraft.

Aviation Week Network's European technology editor Thierry Dubois explains the Ariane 6's significance in European space exploration.

Space Infrastructure Ventures on July 12 agreed to provide up to $2.3 million via a convertible note until Sept. 1.

More than half of the alliance’s member nations rallied at the annual summit to commit to harnessing satellite-derived data collection over the next five years.

The take-private deal marks a near-complete reversal from the $2.6 billion valuation that the startup sported when it became a publicly traded company.