The cover of the May 26, 1969, issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology shows growing plants in Imperial Valley in California near the Salton Sea, glowing red in one of the multispectral terrain photographs from the Apollo 9 S0-65 experiment.
Vast will fly two French astronauts on two separate missions scheduled for 2027, and will establish its European headquarters in Paris, the space technology company announced June 1.
Impulse Space, an orbital transfer vehicle and rocket motor developer, has raised a $500 million Series D to fund expansion of its manufacturing capacity.
Despite extensive damage from the the explosion of a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on its launchpad, the company is aiming to return to flight before year-end.
NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal, launched to enable interoperability between satellite relay networks, has completed its planned demonstration phase.
Japanese startup AstroX and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plan to demo an attitude control system for a rocket suspended from a high-altitude balloon.
Initial visual inspections indicate a second booster and upper stage in a processing hangar at SLC-36 were unaffected by the Blue Origin New Glenn explosion.
The FAA has determined a pair of demonstration missions of a SpaceX-proposed small reentry capsule in the Pacific Ocean poses no significant environmental issues.
