Space

The Canadian Space Agency has awarded three contracts worth C$14.6 million ($10.6 million) in total to study different lunar rover designs.

Starlab Space LLC and Journey have announced a strategic partnership to advance development of Starlab’s commercial space station.

Crowdsourcer HeroX and NASA are holding an upcoming “Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge."

SpaceX plans another Starship flight test soon after a vehicle slated to perform that mission suffered an explosion in June.

Editors share what they heard at AIAA's showcase events in Las Vegas and their concerns about what the NASA cuts could mean for U.S. competitiveness in commercial aviation and space.

The U.S. Space Force has selected five companies to begin the process of building new space-based protected tactical satellite communications capabilities.

Houston-based Barrios Technology, LLC has been awarded a $450 million contract to provide technical integration services for NASA’s human spaceflight programs.

NASA launched its Bard spacecraft mission on July 23 to demonstrate interoperability between gov-ernment and commercial satellite relay networks.

The U.S. Space Force plans to use its X-37B to conduct operational demonstrations of laser link communications and quantum-based navigation in space.

NASA is nearing the Oct. 1 start of fiscal 2026 with continuing uncertainty.

Firefly Aerospace would raise up to $632 million in capital as part of its initial public offering based on the upper end of the company’s proposed listing price.

Hanwha Aerospace has signed a technology transfer agreement with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute for the Nuri Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II.

As China and Russia flex their military muscles in space, Western defense officials are becoming punchier in their mindset around those operations.

Arianespace launched the CO3D and MicroCarb missions in the penultimate Vega-C launch for the service provider before operations of the rocket shift to Avio.

Thales Alenia Space says it has secured a contract from the Italian Space Agency to design a lunar outpost for launch in 2033.

Blue Origin will fly a space domain awareness sensor built by Scout Space on its inaugural Blue Ring mission targeted for spring 2026, the company said.

SES and the Luxembourg government plan to add a second GovSat communications satellite, again opting to use Thales Alenia Space for the system.

AeroVironment Inc. (AV), co-developer of NASA’s pioneering Ingenuity Mars helicopter, has fostered a next-generation Mars helicopter concept called Skyfall.

The Asteroid Institute has initiated a service that allows users to calculate spacecraft trajectories and propulsion requirements between Solar System objects.

Spire Global is expanding its space systems offering to detect radio frequency signals, including efforts to disrupt global navigation satellite services such as GPS.

The U.S. may be losing ground in a global race to develop highly maneuverable spacecraft.

NASA’s Tracer twin-satellite mission launched successfully with a handful of other small spacecraft payloads on July 23.

Space startup iRocket will go public via a $400 million merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by former U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

Dealing with defunct satellites can cost constellation operators serious money, especially if a broken satellite starts getting in the way of other spacecraft in its orbital shell.

Dassault Aviation is pushing for its proposed Vortex reusable spaceplane to become a European Space Agency program.