Space

A Space X Falcon 9 rocket soared off its Cape Canaveral launch pad April 18 to send NASA’s planet-hunting TESS telescope on its way to an operational orbit.

Darpa is offering a top prize of $10 million to launch a payload into orbit with just a few days notice.

U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine has cleared a possible final roadblock in his quest to be OK'd as the next NASA administrator by winning Sen. Marco Rubio's support.

Boeing says it has “high confidence” that it will debut the Starliner CST-100 vehicle for both uncrewed and crewed test flights by year’s end.

The ISS partnership should take on the development and operation of NASA’s planned Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, a Russian official says.

Aerospace Corp. has developed small transponders that can ride on newly launched satellites to help avoid space collisions.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has begun discussions with the U.S. Air Force to take over space traffic notifications to commercial satellite operators.

“We have entered the space game finally," a UK Royal Air Force official says.

The UK’s aerospace sector enjoys committed government support, sustained investment in innovation and new technology, and a growing order book.

The Space and Missile Systems Center is being restructured into what U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson calls “SMC 2.0.”

NASA traditionally has analyzed cost, schedule and technical risks to determine a program’s health. But that approach can lead to tunnel vision, warns the agency's outgoing Acting Administrator.

Lockheed Martin has submitted a bid for a contract worth up to $10 billion to make the next set of GPS III satellites.

The U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee on April 17 endorsed passage of a 2018/19 NASA authorization bill.

India’s state-run space agency wants to mount nine missions in the next eight months.

NASA and the Israeli Space Agency have signed an agreement that could lead to the testing of an astronaut radiation shielding vest.

Orbital ATK has given its rocket a name—Omega—and chosen a third-stage engine—Aerojet Rocketdyne’s RL10.

NASA’s planned April 16 launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission was scrubbed hours from liftoff.

Stratolaunch Systems plans three more speed taxi tests of its twin-fuselage Stratolaunch aircraft before an initial test flight this summer,

A 2018 NASA spending boost appears to offer the agency some flexibility in launch plans for the first and second test flights of the SLS and Orion crew capsule.

India’s state-run space agency has successfully launched the eighth spacecraft in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, IRNSS-1I.

South Korea has provisionally chosen LIG Nex1 to build five reconnaissance satellites due for launch between 2020 and 2023.

Analysis of Virgin Galactic’s initial test flight of the SS2 shows the spacecraft performed as well as, or in some cases better, than model-based predictions.

Analysis of Virgin Galactic’s initial test flight of the SS2 shows the spacecraft performed as good as, or in some cases better, than model-based predictions.

Even with its recent push to return astronauts to the lunar environs, NASA has not given up on landing astronauts on Mars.

NASA has cleared Aerojet Rocketdyne to begin production of the Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial propulsion unit for future space science missions.