Space

Westcott facility for Reaction Engines core testing takes British high-speed rocket propulsion research back to its post-war roots.

High-temperature, Mach 3.3 test paves the way for a hypersonic run for Reaction Engines pre-cooler.

Qatar Airways has said its strategic collaboration with McGill University’s Institute of Air and Space Law, the world’s premier institution for innovative research and education in the field of air and space law.

The U.S. is responding to increased Chinese and Russian space threats by building a space force and planning to spend $14 billion in fiscal 2020. Is it enough?

Flying the SpaceX Falcon Heavy with ULA upper stage is an option for lunar missions beyond 2022.

Turkey, U.S. still at odds over S-400; Lockheed to deliver AEHF-5 soon; Cubesat to process hyperspectral images; and sizing up the defense electronics market.

Steppingstones are in place to fast-track revived U.S. lunar exploration initiative, but some key items are missing.

At just 16 years old, Alia Almansoori, winner of the inaugural UAE Genes in Space contest (2017) and founder of Emirati Astronaut, a platform for dialogue between aspiring astronauts and space explorers, has been appointed as a Scientific Research Fellow at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD).

UK space tech firms Surrey Satellite Technology and Oxford Space Systems have been awarded government funding to develop a stowage-efficient Synthetic Aperture Radar.

A delegation from the UAE Space Agency has taken part in a series of meetings and workshops at the French Space Agency (CNES) as a part of the development of an international Space Climate Observatory (SCO).

The space agency sticks with the SLS and considers options to keep the rocket debut in 2020.

The U.S. Air Force is renewing its focus on how to fight in space to compete with China and Russia.

Within the next six months, Lockheed Martin plans to launch a cubesat mission to demo a software-defined sat architecture that will allow a spacecraft to change missions while on orbit.

The ability to fly helicopters on Mars could make possible future exploration of the red planet’s most hazardous terrain or areas off limits to humans because of planetary protection concerns.

Comac tests fuel-cell power; DLR to capture rockets in flight; Fluidic flight control; DARPA’s “Disruptioneering”; UAM in Austria.

With a lifelong passion for aviation, Paul Allen was the first of the technology barons to spend part of his fortune backing technology to enable less costly and more frequent access to space.

More than 400 luminaries gathered at the 62nd annual gala to honor the winners and top students pursuing aviation or aerospace careers.

Building an equatorial launch base in northern Australia should begin in April. A base for launches to polar orbits is in planning.

New organization will unify and integrate the development of space capabilities across the U.S. military.

NASA has outlined a three-step strategy for achieving a sustained human return to the Moon’s surface by 2028.

NASA chief fires warning shot, orders study to assess launching Orion lunar flight test on commercial boosters.

The Nauka multipurpose module is likely to miss its July 2020 launch date for additional tests.

DARPA plans to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system that can be assembled on orbit to expand U.S. operating presence in cislunar space.

The Government of Rwanda - alongside SoftBank Group Corp., Grupo Salinas, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. - has led a new round of funding of OneWeb's satellite communications network, totalling $1.25 billion.

What NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft observed on its flyby of the distant Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule—especially the object’s strange shape —has sent scientists back to the drawing board.