Space

Rocket Lab remains confident about achieving the inaugural launch of its medium-class Neutron rocket this year from its new Launch Complex 3.

The work is to commercially support NASA’s Flight Operations Directorate, including the Artemis initiative’s Space Launch System and Orion crew capsule.

Skylo Technologies says it is working with mobile phone chipset providers to roll out the service commercially.

Singapore is seeking to carve out a role in the fast-growing global space sector, with plans to commercialize and scale up home-grown technologies.

Following a trio of failed flight tests, SpaceX’s new launch system completed a full-duration demonstration.

The U.S. Space Force is seeing new ground-based capabilities come online, deploying new satellites on orbit by the end of the year, and plotting the future of its space-based surveillance layer.

The International Space Station (ISS) has been a catalyst in firing up a low Earth orbit economy and an asset that must be leveraged to keep that fire lit.

ESA awarded two launches to Isar Aerospace, giving a boost to the German rocket startup, as it also unveiled an agreement with Avio for three Vega-C missions.

Generating some 16.5 million lb. of thrust, the 404-ft tall Starship-Super Heavy headed toward a suborbital trajectory for a planned 66-min. flight demonstration.

The Italian Space Agency signed an agreement with SpaceX to fly several science payloads on an upcoming Starship mission or missions to Mars.

As NASA closes in on the liftoff of its first Artemis mission to the Moon with astronauts, the agency is prepping for its second year-long simulation of life on the red planet.

India has completed a key milestone in its so-called Gaganyaan effort to launch three astronauts to space and return them after a three-day on-orbit mission.

SpaceX’s 10th flight test of a Starship-Super Heavy launch system remained on hold Aug. 25 following a scrub due to lightning concerns at the company’s Boca Chica Beach, Texas, spaceport.

York Space Systems has delivered 21 satellites ahead of the first launch of the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.

NASA's 33rd SpaceX-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission successfully docked to the U.S. segment of the International Space Station early Aug. 25.

SpaceX canceled plans for a flight test of its Starship-Super Heavy launch system Aug. 24 to troubleshoot a potential problem with ground systems.

After 25 travel plan changes, the Escapade spacecraft are being prepared for a fall liftoff.

SpaceX on Aug. 24 launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral SFS carrying a propellant-heavy Dragon cargo ship to resupply and reboost the International Space Station's (ISS) orbit.

SpaceX is expected to add a U.S. capability to boost the orbit of the International Space Station during its latest cargo mission.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has issued two study contracts this month related to its Rocket Cargo vision to speedily transport equipment around the globe using commercial launch vehicles.

NASA and IBM have released an open-source artificial intelligence model for predicting solar weather that may harm satellites, space stations or astronauts.

Japan plans the first flight of the most powerful version of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H3 launcher as early as Oct. 21.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched at 11:50 p.m. EDT Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, carrying the Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane under the USSF-36 mission.

NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On L1 mission is poised to initiate continuous in-space monitoring of the Sun for the first time following its launch next month.

Russia has launched the Bion-M No. 2 biological research mission to test radiation effects on living species when in polar orbit.