Space

By Guy Norris
Performance benefits of Unity upgrades that were proved last year will feed into Delta spaceship design as belt-tightening forces cuts in near-term flight rate.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Japanese financing and leasing company SMFL Mirai and JAXA plan to design business concepts for satellite leasing and reselling.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX opened its 2024 launch manifest on Jan. 2 with a Falcon 9 mission to continue building its Starlink satellite constellation.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
India kicked off the 2024 launch calendar with deployment of an X-ray astronomy satellite from the Satish Dhawann Space Center.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Led by SpaceX, the number of orbital launch attempts last year rose by 20% over 2022.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Rocket Lab has received a $489 million contract to design, build and operate 18 space vehicles on behalf of an undisclosed U.S. government customer.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s ISS oversight has been authorized by Congress through the end of fiscal 2030.
Space

By Irene Klotz, Brian Everstine
The triple-core booster lifted off with the X-37B from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A at 8:07 p.m. EST.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA believes it can leverage commercial service industries for deep-space exploration.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Recovery operations were underway after the successful Dec. 22 splashdown of the 29th NASA-contracted SpaceX Crew Dragon resupply mission.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The Tracking Layer satellites are to be part of the first group of operational missile-tracking spacecraft in the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space’s upcoming third private astronaut mission promises to offer a preview of the future low-Earth-orbit economy.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
It is time for the world to invest more spending in space situational awareness, according to the former president of the Portuguese Space Agency.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
An orbital propellant depot and fueling service are keys to the Starship lunar lander architecture.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Major events in aerospace and defense during 2023.
Aerospace

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s 29th NASA-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission capsule departed the ISS on Dec. 21 for a splashdown and recovery off the Florida coast.
Space

By Irene Klotz
In 2024, India and Boeing aim for low Earth orbit, while NASA eyes an excursion around the Moon.
Space

By Graham Warwick
From new fighters to launchers, airline production ramps to air taxi certifications, 2024 will be a busy year.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Space Force says its personnel track more than 6,500 potential missile events each month.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Bad weather has delayed Intuitive Machines, Inc.’s planned launch of its first Nova-C lunar lander to no earlier than mid-February, the company said.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The head of the service says analysis is focusing on physical coverage gaps, along with ways to quickly analyze data.
Space

By Irene Klotz
After a 15-month hiatus to address a booster nozzle issue that caused its last launch to fail, Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle returned to suborbital space.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Axiom Space plans to install a data center on Hab One to be linked to the ISS and use laser communications equipment to connect it to Earth-orbiting satellites.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
As hardware prices come down, Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to connect “tens of millions of customers.”
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
The PE owners of legacy space-based services provider Maxar have divested their RF business that Maxar had acquired just 11 months earlier.
Commercial Space