Space

By Chen Chuanren
The Taiwan Space Agency's Star Chasing Project aims to develop two or three 3U cubesats in its initial feasibility study.
Space

Apurva Mahajan
The Office of Space Commerce (OSC) within the Commerce Department is set to implement a three-phase plan to assume control of space situational awareness.
Space

AW Staff
Russia’s Krylo-SV reusable space launch vehicle will conduct its first drop tests in September.
Space

By Garrett Reim
AST SpaceMobile has raised $115 million in debt, enough to fully fund the manufacturing of its first five cellular signal broadcasting BlueBird satellites.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Intuitive Machines is aiming for a Nov. 15 launch of the agency initiative’s first Artemis-era Moon landing.
Space

By Irene Klotz, Garrett Reim
Space freighter module forms the basis for multiple future missions.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army has validated requirements for two types of uncrewed, high-altitude aircraft.
Space

By Mark Carreau
July 2023 was Earth’s hottest month since 1880, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) says.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Video appears to show the Rocketsan-developed sounding rocket being tube-launched from a new launch site on Turkey’s westernmost Black Sea coast.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Telesat is switching contractors to build satellites for its planned Lightspeed broadband communications network.
Commercial Space

Apurva Mahajan
The distinctive pattern of preserved mud cracks found by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers evidence which could mean the planet had potential for microbial life.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Astranis plans to launch by year’s end its UtilitySat, a multiband and relocatable small communications satellite.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Ad Astra Rocket Company is moving ahead with efforts to raise the TRL of its long-in-development VASIMR for a future in-space demonstration.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The Cygnus resupply capsule fired its delta velocity thruster early Aug. 11 to raise the International Space Station’s orbit.
Space

Apurva Mahajan
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has completed its 54th flight on Mars, performing a 25-sec. up-and-down hop on the surface.
Space

Aviation Week Staff
Luna-25, the first Russian lunar exploration mission in almost 50 years, is bound for the Moon.
Space

By Tony Osborne
German satellite launcher developer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has secured €30 million ($32.8 million) from global investment firm KKR.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
Despite developing Parkinson’s disease, one of Virgin Galactic’s first customers boarded the company’s VSS Unity spaceship for a suborbital ride.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Using inputs from the fledging HAPS industry, Frontex believes HAPS would be useful for Earth observation.
Commercial Space

Lunar Vertex (LVx) is a joint lander and rover payload combination that will land at Reiner Gamma on the lunar nearside.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Two Russian cosmonauts installed three orbital debris shields to the exterior of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment Rassvet.
Space

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX and NASA are meeting to discuss options for Artemis III’s return to the lunar surface.
Space

The mission date is to be announced at a later date, and the name of the astronaut awaits approval by NASA and the other ISS partners.
Commercial Space

NASA has awarded Advanced Space two new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contracts.
Space