European officials plan to move quickly to put on contract risk reduction efforts for the IRIS² satellite communications program to mature critical tech.
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander is due to launch mid-January onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and attempt a soft landing on the Moon about 60 days later.
In a 2024 update to its evolving Moon-to-Mars Architecture Definition Document, NASA lists five new high-priority technology gaps, including lunar-dust-mitigation systems.
The EU and ESA signed a concession contract with a European industry consortium to deploy a roughly 292-satellite secure, sovereign communications system.
SpaceX is seeking a special election in Texas to incorporate the private Starbase community that serves as a manufacturing complex, test facility and spaceport.
NASA’s Lucy mission spacecraft sped close by the Earth for a second gravity assist to place the probe on a course for the first flybys of five Trojan asteroids.
Astroscale’s Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan approached to within 15 m of an orbiting derelict Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA upper-stage body.
The joint NASA, French, Canadian and U.K. Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) orbital mission is providing an unprecedented perspective of the seafloor.
The first spacecraft from a U.S. Space Force and National Reconnaissance Office program to conduct space situational awareness are close to entering operation.
A decade ago, SpaceX launched six Falcon 9 rockets in a year—now, it could be on track for an orbital launch rate of 136 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy flights.
As the U.S. Space Force nears its fifth birthday, its senior military leader is laser-focused on increasing space domain awareness to keep ahead of adversaries.
As the U.S. Space Force hones its next-gen multi-orbit missile-warning architecture, two elements reached milestones toward building out the GEO and LEO layers.
Sierra Space says it can predict—with higher accuracy than conventional methods—the locations of space debris, using “physics-informed neural networks.”
NASA is looking to February for the SPHEREx launch, a mission to survey more than 450 million galaxies to better understand the post-Big Bang cosmic expansion.
NASA's contract with the Southwest Research Institute includes the development and operation of two magnetometers as part of NOAA's Space Weather Next program.
The House Armed Services and Senate Armed Services committees are providing one of the U.S. Space Force’s procurement offices with a boost in resources.
