Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA and Boeing are now looking to July 21 at the earliest for the launch of the eight-day Crew Flight Test to the ISS.
Space

By Michael Bruno
German rocket startup Isar Aerospace has unveiled a $165 million Series C fundraising round.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force wants to continue investments in tactically responsive space.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Lockheed Martin is self-funding an offshoot to provide communications, navigation and other services for government and commercial lunar customers.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The worst performing acquisition programs in the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) portfolio are not in space.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s disabled Soyuz MS-22 crew transport departed the ISS early March 28 for an uncrewed, parachute-assisted descent to Earth in Kazakhstan.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Thales Alenia Space has won contracts to supply synthetic aperture radar and optical satellites for IRIDE, the hybrid Italian Earth observation constellation.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital booster failed during an uncrewed Sept. 12 launch due to structural fatigue on the engine nozzle.
Commercial Space

Aviation Week Staff
Russia plans to launch its first civil radar observation satellite–Kondor-FKA–on May 27.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Dawn Aerospace’s Mk-II Aurora spaceplane has received an aircraft certification from the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz, Michael Bruno, Guy Norris
A loose fuel filter doomed the company’s last launch. Then came a bigger problem.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space is moving on to tests of its inflatable habitat technology with hard structures inside the pressure shell.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will undergo another independent review board assessment later this year.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
The two-stage, 110-ft.-tall rocket was produced using primarily 3D-printing.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon a half century ago lacked the challenges that the agency’s Artemis program faces, says NASA official Bhavya Lal.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Just six more satellites are needed for full global coverage.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
After a controlled burn lasting several minutes from its main propulsion system, ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander entered the Moon’s orbit on March 21.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
U.S. space agency will lease the garments, which provide 8 hr. of life support for missions.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Startup sees SpaceX Starship enabling larger, albeit lower-cost spacecraft.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The UK Space Agency has granted £2.9 million to Rolls-Royce for research into how micro nuclear reactor technology might be used to power a Moon base.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s JSC is in line to receive the largest share of the agency’s $27.2 billion fiscal 2024 budget request among NASA’s 10 field centers and Washington HQ.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The agency's budget request would provide funding to land humans on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
IHI Corporation of Japan and Northrop Grumman have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop “highly maneuverable” small satellites.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Former top Boeing lobbyist Tim Keating has been named head of a new Sierra Space business unit.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s 27th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station autonomously docked to the ISS early March 16.
Space