A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral AFS on July 30, sending the $2.4-billion NASA Perseverance rover on its way to Mars to search for signs of past life and cache promising rock and soil samples for a future return to Earth.
U.S. Space Command (Spacecom) is partnering with U.S. Cyber Command by offering a planning element to implement cyber protection and capabilities or space expertise.
In-situ resource utilization, combined with advances in additive manufacturing, could provide the materials and technologies for the construction of habitats, factories, spare parts and supplies on the Moon and Mars.
A new report on the space industrial base discusses the catastrophic impact the spread of the novel coronavirus has had on space companies and how the global pandemic provides a dangerous opportunity for China and Russia to challenge or surpass the U.S. in space.
The failure of a high-pressure liquid-oxygen feed line triggered a premature engine shutdown during the debut flight of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket, the company said on July 27.
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said he has placed a hold on the renomination of Michael O'Rielly to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the agency’s controversial order granting Ligado Networks spectrum near GPS frequencies.
NASA Demo-2 astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley took a look back and a look ahead during July 28 interviews aboard the International Space Station (ISS), just days before their two-month Commercial Crew Program/SpaceX test flight is scheduled to end.
Spaceflight’s new Sherpa-FX orbit transfer vehicle is to be deorbited after its first mission in low Earth orbit by deploying Tethers Unlimited’s drag-increasing Terminator Tape.
NASA’s independent Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel thinks the U.S. should take the lead in addressing the growing global threat to low Earth orbit activities posed by man-made orbital debris.
By Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Michael Bruno, Lee Ann Shay, Sean Broderick
Aviation Week editors provide their behind-the-scenes impressions from interviews with the CEOs of Airbus, Boeing, Lufthansa Technik and Raytheon Technologies.
The Trump administration’s National Space Council on July 23 released a 17-page report outlining its approach to deep-space exploration and development.
The Sea Launch space program, halted by company owner Vladislav Filev after his main S7 Airlines business was devastated by COVID-19-related flight restrictions until better times, will now continue with new backing from the Russian government.
Russia’s MS-15 Progress resupply capsule successfully docked to the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment on July 23, less than 3 1/2 hr. after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
British lawmakers have expressed concern that the government’s decision to invest in the failed OneWeb satellite constellation ignored input from advisers.
A Long March 5 rocket launched the first all-Chinese mission to Mars on July 23, placing the 5-metric-ton Tianwen 1 spacecraft directly into an Earth-Mars transfer orbit.
An international team of astronomers has directly imaged a very young, Sun-like star with multiple large planets—a first that may help astronomers better understand how our Solar System’s planets formed and evolved.
NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken teamed July 21 for their fourth and final planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) over the past month.
The modernized version of the Russian Rockot light launch vehicle is gradually taking shape, as the technical design of the new Rockot-M variant is complete, according to Russian media reports.
