Space

Guy Norris talks with CEO Tom Vice about the spinoff-turned-prime’s growth plans as its space defense business surges and its spaceplane prepares for flight.

A U.S. government pressure campaign has yet to produce visible results for Russia to drop alleged plans to eventually launch a co-orbital space weapon.

The Space Development Agency is considering a change to its requirements for optical communications terminal for its data transport satellite constellation.

The final, 500-sec. hot fire of the EO525 development engine was carried out April 3rd at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

The U.S. military wants terminals to connect with multiple satellite constellations.

While NASA mulls plans to bring the samples to Earth, the collection is growing.

NASA is continuing its efforts to partner with the U.S. commercial space sector while striving to establish a human presence at the Moon.

Umbra Space is the latest commercial space company to show that bistatic coupling of two radar satellites could be used to implement moving target indication.

Boeing’s new leadership in Commercial Airplanes and at the top are likely just the beginning of major changes at the manufacturing giant.

The company is confident a spate of hardware issues and oversights are behind it.

The multiyear Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract agreements have a combined maximum potential value of $4.6 billion over 15 years.

AST SpaceMobile’s first batch of direct-to-cellular satellites will not be launched in the second quarter of this year as planned,

Russia has restored its capability for high-resolution Earth mapping with the recent launch of the new Resurs-P observation satellite.

NASA and Boeing have retargeted the planned launch date for the Starliner's crew flight test from May 1 to no earlier than May 6.

ULA plans to try again as early as April 9 to launch the last Delta IV Heavy rocket on a mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

Terran Orbital has been notified by the New York Stock Exchange that it is no longer at risk of being delisted.

The Pentagon on April 2 revealed its long-awaited strategy for integrating commercial space capabilities into national defense operations.

The financing comes as SpaceX’s Starlink LEO constellation eats Telesat’s lunch.

The five-year Safety and Mission Assurance Engineering Contract III takes effect June 1.

With Crewed Flight Test certification, Starliner will be in line for six missions to launch astronauts and return them from the ISS.

Launch of the NROL-70 mission aboard the final United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket remained on hold March 29 to address a problem with ground support equipment.

Japan’s Smart Lander For Investigating Moon spacecraft has survived a second lunar night.

The Space Force is starting market R&D of an acquisition strategy for a new constellation of protected communication satellites.

The U.S. Navy plans to soon issue a request for proposals for a shipboard antenna that can connect to up to 15 different satellite constellations at once.

NASA has selected the first three science instruments for deployment on the Moon’s south pole as part of Artemis III.