Space

Dragon was about to fire up abort system thrusters when an explosion occurred.

SpaceX clears hurdle to launch first batch of satellites, but international operations are in question.

As NASA looks to step up its detection of potentially dangerous Near Earth Objects, it is working on a dedicated deep-space observatory first proposed more than a dozen years ago.

One Chinese rocket shot achieves two landmarks, verifying launcher recovery technology and testing a waverider.

NASA is delaying the planned May 1 launch of a SpaceX cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS) to troubleshoot a problem with the station’s electrical system.

Tunisia’s first ‘Challenge One’ satellite is to be launched from the Russian Soyuz-2.1a, integrated with the Fregat upper stage, following a signing between Telnet Group and GK Launch services.

The FCC has ruled to allow SpaceX to proceed with launch of an undisclosed number of Starlink satellites as early as next month.

The first test flight of a privately developed Chinese reusable space launcher hurled an experimental hypersonic waverider vehicle to a speed faster than 2,800 mph on April 23.

In 1962, pioneering astronaut and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn wrote a pilot report for Aviation Week after his historic and harrowing flight in Mercury’s Friendship 7.

A directive that accelerates NASA’s plans to return to the Moon’s surface with humans from 2024-2028 has also created an urgency that it return first with rovers.

A test of abort thrusters destroyed the capsule that had returned from an unmanned test flight to the International Space Station.

After a near-flawless journey to lunar orbit, Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft reached the Moon’s surface but crashed about 2 min. before its slated touchdown.

More then a year after its flight test, Falcon Heavy enters commercial service.

The gargantuan twin-fuselage launch vehicle carrier aircraft made a successful 2-hr. 29-min. first flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport.

Exactly how NASA could pull off a 2024 Moon landing remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: It will cost billions.

Space launch company Stratolaunch has successfully completed the long-anticipated first flight of its 385-ft.-span, six-engined mothership at Mojave Air & Spaceport.

In-space logistics are the key to increasing robustness and economic productivity.

After the geostationary communications satellite market collapse, Maxar is focused on launching its Legion satellites and rapidly providing data to customers.

Unusual debuts at Aero; Wing delivers in Australia; Ehang flies food; UK counters UAS; DARPA challenges launch teams; Connecting UAS to ATC.

The U.S. is recapitalizing its space assets while simultaneously focusing on a future space architecture.

Japanese F-35s grounded; industry calls Air Force IP buybacks a mistake; Raytheon helping bridge space tracking gap; Ukraine’s new cruise missile.

The National Space Foundation’s (NSF) Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project has unveiled the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.

Responsive launch, defending U.S. satellites in geosynchronous orbit and a proliferated satellite constellation in low Earth orbit may all be tools for defending against adversaries in space, but the nation needs to keep all options open through funding all avenues, according to the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition executive.

The Pentagon is making optimistic assumptions, especially regarding congressional support, in its five-year plan for a U.S. Space Force (USSF), according to sources on Capitol Hill and in industry.

Brazil’s hopes for self-sufficiency in space ride on Visiona’s nanosat.