Space

The Time list falls into five categories: leaders, disrupters, innovators, titans and pioneers.

Russia's Progress MS-27 resupply capsule is on track to dock to the ISS Poisk module following a successful liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The company is hoping the upgraded Starship survives its return through the atmosphere.

The satellite will be equipped with upgrades including a coronagraph to more closely monitor solar activity like the ramp-up in flares experienced in May.

AST SpaceMobile has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Verizon to provide direct-to-cellular service from its satellites.

The Space Force says Boeing and Northrop Grumman are the only bidders qualified to build the next-generation jam-resistant satcom payloads.

Canada’s MDA has taken an ownership stake in Houston-based Voyager Space’s Starlab commercial space station.

NASA received 48 responses to its April 16-May 17 solicitation for alternative ideas to bring samples collected by the Perseverance Mars rover back to Earth.

NASA has cleared Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to proceed with a June 1 launch attempt of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

The Center for the Study of Space Crime, Policy and Governance plans to host its initial annual Space Piracy Conference Feb. 11-12, 2025.

The EarthCARE satellite is designed to determine what role clouds and aerosols play in heating and cooling the atmosphere to better understand climate change.

Blasting space junk with beams of light could be one of the most cost-effective methods of cleaning up space.

The development element of focus is the Vasimr’s Generation 4 (Gen-4), or Rhino Horn, radio frequency power source.

The edge computing capability is intended to shorten the time it takes maritime security and defense users to receive SAR observation data.

Titans Space is a privately funded California startup.

North Korea’s ambition to put a second satellite into orbit ended in flames when its launch vehicle exploded shortly after liftoff on the night of May 27.

Prefire joins more than two dozen current NASA Earth Science missions focused on studies of the planet’s oceans, ice, vegetation, atmosphere and landforms.

The issue was found as part of a wider assessment of the Starliner propulsion system.

Microreactors could represent a small step for nuclear reactor power but a giant leap in the search for scalable energy sources for space exploration.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft arrived at Kennedy Space Center on May 23 for final preparations ahead of launch in October to a Jupiter moon.

The company declined to release details of the spacecrafts' size and mass.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson again raised astronaut safety as the primary pacing item for Artemis III.

The company has requested an early September launch for Tenacity aboard ULA’s second Vulcan rocket.

The heater units would be used on ispace’s Series 3 lunar lander and rovers, planned for launch to the Moon by 2027.

NASA and Boeing are working toward a June 1 launch of the CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test.