Space

The winners of the Mars 2117 Programme’s initiative ‘Zero Gravity competition’, launched by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), will fly to Florida, USA, from 2 to 4 October, to conduct an experiment in zero gravity aboard a Boeing 727, which will be facilitated through Zero Gravity Corporation.

Previously announced winners, Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Tomorrow's Leaders also were honored.

Completing a demo for a huge first-stage rocket engine, maybe in 2018, is among tech acquisition projects that China’s main space industry group is undertaking.

Intelsat is driving innovation in the way it transmits data to smaller and smaller terminals and in its business models.

CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall was in Rabat at the invitation of Driss El Hadani, Director of Morocco’s Royal Centre for Remote Sensing (CRTS), to open the first international workshop prepared together on the benefits and applications of remote-sensing data from the Copernicus programme’s Sentinel satellites.

The U.S. Air Force wants to lease commercial bandwidth to build an agile, resilient communications network for the modern battlefield.

DARPA goes smallsat; Lockheed’s ship-based laser; Safran hybrid power demo; Boeing Australia autonomy initiative; Fortem’s radar-toting DroneHunter.

Michigan-based Orbion is aiming to fly Hall effect thruster on smallsat in 2019.

Even though the DOD plans to spend over $8 billion on space in fiscal 2019, those in Congress and experts on space and budgeting say the U.S. needs to do more.

Megaconstellations of broadband satellites are expected to join flocks of cubesats in increasingly crowded low Earth orbit.

TESS expected to find targets for future exoplanet atmospheric studies by James Webb Space Telescope.

The service is readying for a great-power conflict by accelerating development of a next-generation fighter family and redefining battle management.

National Space Council tackles regulatory reform to bolster U.S. commercial space industry.

Bigelow Aerospace plans to stand up the Bigelow Space Operations venture and exercise a cooperative agreement with Casis.

A look inside NASA’s fiscal 2019 aeronautics budget: low-boom supersonics; electric propulsion; urban air mobility.

These exceptional aerospace students are honored by Aviation Week and the AIAA for their academic accomplishements and extracuriccular activities.

At this point, the Outer Space Treaty legally applies only to countries, not commercial companies.

The White House budget directs the space agency to wean from the International Space Station by 2025 and use commercial outposts instead.

Once the new constellation of 66 Iridium Next satellites is in place, Aireon plans to begin providing oceanic surveillance service.

Company plans ‘hopper’ tech development program for interplanetary spaceship.

Delivery of a sports car into space is a light touch, but the low-cost, privately developed rocket signals changing times for industry. Photo: John Kraus

`The prolonged coast of the second stage is designed to dispatch Musk’s red Tesla roadster on a whimsical voyage around the sun.

The first privately funded heavy-lift rocket ushers in a new way of doing business.

Artificial gravity hovers like an enigma over real-life U.S. ambitions of returning to the Moon before pressing on to Mars and beyond.

This year’s winners will be recognized March 1 at a black-tie gala in Washington, when four Grand Laureates also will be awarded.