Space

Intuitive Machines, Inc. has been appraised at Capability Maturity Model Integration Institute Maturity Level 3 for software development.

ArkEdge Space was contracted by JAXA to study key technologies needed for a dedicated positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) satellite constellation.

Apex officially opened its new “Factory One” production facility in Los Angeles on Oct. 6.

The chairman of the FCC wants to streamline the licensing process for satellite and Earth station applications to help businesses.

As Beijing races to match U.S. capabilities in orbit, the Pentagon warns of rising threats across all orbital layers.

Progress in reducing small-satellite costs will come from the discipline to know which expenses buy reliability and which just keep us stuck in the past.

The Planetary Society is opposing significant proposed cuts to NASA’s science budget.

Arrays Labs has won a contract from Office of Naval Research to study the feasibility of using its formation-flying radar satellites to conduct AMTI missions.

Cubesat projects are creating career paths for students while helping companies find engineers with experience in space technology and other disciplines.

The U.S. Space Force has assigned five future missions to SpaceX and two missions to United Launch Alliance (ULA).

Jeff Bezos, executive chairman of Amazon.com and founder of Blue Origin, foresees gigawatt data centers orbiting Earth in the coming decades.

NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission has down-to-earth themes: "crawl, walk, run" and "know as you go."

The UK defense ministry says it will invest in technology to detect lasers being aimed at spacecraft.

Taiwan is gearing up to launch the first elements of a high-resolution Earth imaging system next month as it works to burnish its homegrown technology.

Australian startup Gilmour Space Technologies is looking to return to the launchpad next year after the first attempt at an orbit flight failed.

Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), crews already operate as if they live and work aboard two distinct stations.

Astroscale, a Japanese space junk removal company, has partnered with Australia's High Earth Orbit Robotics (HEO) to develop space-monitoring technologies.

In August 1960 we reported that the third generation of manned space vehicles is relatively spacious and will need to operate for years without major repair.

NASA has awarded the Ad Astra Rocket Co. a $4 million, two-year contract for the continued development of the company's VASIMR concept.

Lockheed Martin is developing business plans and strategies to offer commercial flight services of the Orion deep-space capsule.

Lockheed Martin and Spark Capital-backed Inversion reaffirmed its plan for a first flight of its Arc space-based, on-demand cargo delivery vehicle next year.

The U.S. Space Force’s next neighborhood watchdog spacecraft could be the first operational system capable of on-orbit refueling.

Tokyo leans on the automobile sector for an off-world ride.

In 1970 we reported how Apollo 14 astronauts Alan B. Shaephard and Edgar D. Mitchell would have made it to the top of Cone Crater during their second exploration of the Moon if they had not been misled by a high ridge they mistook for the crater's rim.

U.S. Space Force Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy made waves when he disclosed that he wants refuelable space situational awareness satellites.