Space

The crew of the ISS has kicked off a busy final month of the year with the third of four planned spacewalks to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

The 22 member states of the European Space Agency have agreed to fund the organization’s activities for a record €14.4 billion ($15.8 billion) over five years.

Though quite small, curious seasonal variations in concentrations of oxygen in the thin Martian atmosphere have scientists baffled and striving to provide an explanation.

Aviation Week discuss how a government watchdog has changed the military’s effort to choose two launch providers from a field of Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance.

House leaders urge the FAA to step up progress on a system to better segregate space launches from other air traffic.

A British startup has unveiled a one-fifth scale model of an innovative lunar lander in partnership with a Ukrainian manufacturer, and plans to test another vehicle in the UAE.

The European Space Agency council at the ministerial level opened Nov. 27 in Seville, Spain, to discuss a proposed increase in spending.

As concern over space debris rises and small businesses develop solutions, European Space Agency chief calls for “ethical” actions.

A British startup has unveiled a one-fifth scale model of an innovative lunar lander in partnership with a Ukrainian manufacturer, and plans to test another vehicle in the UAE.

The NASA Orion capsule assigned to the first joint test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, reached Ohio by air transport from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 24.

Designed to help a geostationary satellite reach its final orbit or deliver constellation spacecraft into more orbital planes, among other potential uses.

Two spacewalking astronauts teamed for the second of four planned spacewalks outside the ISS on Nov. 22 to advance an upgrade of the thermal control system on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.

The U.S. Air Force has unveiled three “vanguard programs” designed to partially fulfill the service’s science and technology strategy.

London-based Spacebit is opening a Lansing, Michigan, office to find and develop investment opportunities in the U.S. that meet its lunar commerce ecosystem business strategy.

NASA’s Inspector General predicts that certification of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Commercial Crew Program (CCP) spacecraft will occur no sooner than summer 2020.

As market conditions change, Europe’s launcher and satellite industries may have to reorient themselves.

Belgium-based imec and its spinoff miDiagnostics are collaborating to develop a device that can acquire and transmit to ground-based medical experts blood counts and blood cell imagery gathered from astronauts on the International Space Station or future deep space missions.

Mechanical damage to a sensor allowed pressurizing gas to activate and separate the stages of a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle in October 2018, resulting in the first Soyuz launch abort in 35 years.

Despite losing out to Blue Origin to provide engines for ULA’s Vulcan rocket, Aerojet sees a future for the AR1.

Michele van Akelijen, chief executive officer of Dubai Airshow organizers Tarsus F&E, is spoilt for choice when asked what she is most looking forward to. But it's space that seems to have captured her imagination - and that of the United Arab Emirates as a whole.

The addition of the Space Pavilion at Dubai Air Show 2019 comes as the UAE increases its focus on space and prepares for a Mission to Mars.

NASA’s intrepid, 42-year-old planetary probe joins its twin beyond the heliopause.

The FAA’s GPS augmentation system supports NextGen precision navigation procedures and ADS-B.

Despite cultural and funding differences, SpaceX and Boeing are neck-in-neck in development of commercial space taxis for NASA.

Entrepreneur eyes an AAA-type service in space.