Space

In response to a NASA inspector general’s audit, agency leadership has agreed to accelerate implementation of changes to its mission support services.

NASA's Artemis II astronauts entered medical quarantine at the Johnson Space Center Jan. 23 ahead of a potential Feb. 6 launch.

The U.S. Space Force is moving quickly to field a new constellation of commercially derived spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit.

An RS-25 engine has passed a follow-up hot fire test, clearing it for installation on the NASA Artemis IV mission’s Space Launch System (SLS).

Stratolaunch and Varda Space Industries will provide reusable systems capable of supporting dozens of flight tests annually at hypersonic speed, the DOD says.

Listen in as Aviation Week's Guy Norris and Graham Warwick report back from their annual pilgrimage to AIAA SciTech.

NASA has named eight U.S. companies that are eligible to bid for the development of the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter.

Congress pushes back on Trump’s plan to cut NASA spending.

The Space Force is breaking ground with commercial partners and intelligence agencies to deliver the moving target indication data to fight and win tomorrow’s wars.

The U.S. Space Force could receive a “significant part” of a future $1.5 trillion defense budget as proposed by President Donald Trump.

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the next GPS III satellite no earlier than Jan. 25, the service’s Space Systems Command announced Jan. 22.

SpaceX plans to deploy a space-to-ground laser link on its Starlink constellation, CEO Elon Musk said.

German space launch startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has secured two further ESA launches, while still working toward the inaugural liftoff of RFA One.

Rocket Lab suffered a structural failure of the Neutron's Stage 1 tank during testing, setting back efforts to get the fully reusable launcher to liftoff.

From “left-of-launch” early warning to terminal defense, Pitch Black is targeted at an integrated kill web hypersonic defense system.

NASA is aiming to send a crew of four into deep space for the first time since 1972.

Senior editor Craig Covault interviewed Alan Stern, overall lead manager and principal investigator for the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft, for a feature in the issue dated January 9, 2006.

The four members of NASA’s Crew-11 Dragon mission appeared healthy and in good spirits as they gathered for a Jan. 21 news briefing.

Space startup Astra said on Jan. 21 that it has shipped 110 satellite engines since Jan. 2025 and is planning to test its new rocket (Rocket 4) this year.

The GPS signals on satellites are being jammed from terrestrial sources at growing rates, and the demand for alternate options for position, navigation and timing is burgeoning.

Blue Origin plans to start launching TeraWave in the fourth quarter of 2027, a 5,408-satellite, high-throughput communications network.

German space startup The Exploration Company (TEC) is in talks to buy British launch startup Orbex.

NASA has selected three science mission payloads for launch by Commercial Lunar Payload Services providers to study the Moon and galactic cosmic rays.

The Space Development Agency (SDA) is tasking Starfish Space to deorbit at least one of its satellites based in low Earth orbit (LEO) under a mission targeted for 2027, the Tukwila, Washington-based startup announced Jan. 21.

Isar Aerospace is scrubbing a potential Jan. 21 launch of its Spectrum rocket to address a technical fault.