Space

NASA appears committed to sustaining a presence in LEO aboard the International Space Station or as a paying customer aboard follow-on commercial platforms.

Leanne Caret discusses how synergy of Boeing's commercial, services and defense divisions have helped the company save on estimated life-cycle costs.

Scandinavian Airlines thinks electri;, Volcopter’s Singapore landing pad; UK CAA’s sandbox for innovation; DHL’s drone deliveries, and Europe’s tiny asteroid prospector.

Making greater use of space – or at least Earth orbiting satellites – could greatly help African farmers and the wider population, the Airbus Aerospace In Africa forum heard. Alan Dron was there.

U.S. Air Force is sitting pretty, with four U.S. companies vying for its space launch business beginning in 2020

Greece receives refurbished P-3; GPS OCX drama continues; India launches new SAR satellite; and Sikorsky pitches CH-53K to Israel.

Air traffic management concepts are being floated for drones, spaceships and UAM vehicles.

Private Chinese space launcher builder Landspace has tested a complete methane-burning space launch main engine, laying the groundwork for a move to higher thrust.

It is time to deliver on the promises made to investors and customers.

In mid-May 1969, only one hurdle remained before NASA would attempt to land astronauts on the Moon: a flight test.

NASA on May 16 hired 11 companies for studies and prototypes of descent modules, orbit-transfer stages and refueling capabilities.

Turkey is establishing a space agency to coordinate the country’s space efforts.

The billionaire's Blue Origin space company wants to sell human-class lunar landing services to NASA.

Experts from the German Aerospace Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have not given up on fully deploying the Mars InSight lander’s subsurface thermal probe.

SpaceX has packed 60 Starlink satellites into the fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket for a trial operational run of its low Earth orbit broadband satellite network.

Florida factory features robots to distribute parts kits and to move spacecraft through work sites and test chambers.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled a full-scale mockup of a lunar lander capable of soft-landing up to 6.5 metric tons on the surface of the Moon.

Aviation Week editors discuss the events at Satellite 2019 in Washington, D.C. including which companies have the strongest leg up and which launch providers will take them to space.

Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is continuing its emergency communications operations using Inmarsat's Global Xpress (GX) satellite connections, following the strongest cyclone ever recorded in Mozambique.

India’s much-anticipated second Moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, is preparing for launch in mid-July, with the lander expected to touch down in early September.

Its current Gateway and Deep Space Transport spaceship will not put humans on the red planet by 2033, but NASA can take a more direct approach.

Contrary to India’s predictions, debris from the country’s intentional destruction of its Microsat-R spacecraft six weeks ago has not re-entered.

Planetary Defense Coordination Office has charted 20,001 near-Earth objects.

F-35 "Sidekick" lets it haul more firepower; India plans next milsat launch; U.S. lawmakers want more Space Force information; UK’s new defense minister

The investigation into the April 20 explosion is still ongoing, but so far appears to have exonerated the SuperDraco engines needed to fly a Dragon capsule to safety in case of a problem during ascent, SpaceX says.