Space

Systems installation is underway on Virgin Galactic’s second commercial SpaceShipTwo sub-orbital vehicle at Mojave, California, following the

U.S. developing scientific license agreements for commercial satellite data

Launch service operator Arianespace is planning up to 20 launches with its Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega rockets in 2020.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has claimed its first discovery of an Earth-like world in the habitable zone of a neighboring star.

The Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics (Asteria) sat effort to miniaturize a spacecraft for extrasolar planet detection, has gone quiet.

SpaceX’s 19th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission spacecraft returned to Earth Jan. 7.

SpaceX has opened what it hopes will be a bustling 2020 launch manifest of 35-38 missions with the Jan. 6 liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a third batch of Starlink broadband comm sats.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has reviewed the final preparations of the Hope Probe, scheduled to launch to Mars on July 15.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) has released a GIF image of the decrease in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentration in the GCC countries, between 26 November 2019 until 27 March 2020.

The USAF and Boeing are working to produce a new variant of the next sat in a constellation that provides high-capacity broadband comms to U.S. forces globally within five years.

A study provides new details on a health threat to astronauts: venous thrombosis.

Efforts to better identify and assess potential impact threats to Earth from asteroids and comets with a compact, space-based IR telescope have received a boost from President Trump.

A new U.S. Army program will demo an intel-collecting system with three powerful sensing capabilities in one year and attempt to field the system on a new airborne surveillance fleet starting in five years.

For space tourism’s prospects after any fatal accident, look to the X-15, the space shuttle and extreme mountain climbing, analysts say.

Celestia Technologies Group has acquired the satellite ground systems division of Antwerp Space.

The U.S. Air Force secretary has transferred 14th Air Force to the U.S. Space Force.

Maxar Technologies has reached a deal to sell its MDA Canadian space subsidiary.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch on Dec. 28 broke the previous record of 288 days for the longest spaceflight by a woman.

The Calt Long March 5 heavy space launcher returned to flight on Dec. 27.

The FAA has agreed to pause its evaluation of a commercial space launch site proposed by Camden County, Georgia, on the U.S. Atlantic coast.

CAPE CANAVERAL — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, a commercial low Earth orbit human transportation system developed in partnership with NASA, returned

The U.S. military is immediately assigning over 16,000 personnel to the new entity.

NASA could be a year away from having a cost estimate for accelerating its lunar plans.

President Trump is expected to sign two minibus appropriations bills that include a provision allowing NASA to buy more Russian Soyuz seats to launch U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station.

Space launch provider Virgin Orbit says it has delivered a flight-worthy LauncherOne rocket to its Mojave, California facility and is poised to