Space

Orbital ATK’s eighth NASA-contracted resupply mission to the ISS initiated the ambitious departure phase of a multifaceted, month-long orbital journey.

The global market was creeping toward $350 billion annually in 2016, with less than 25% coming from government budgets worldwide combined.

Ohio University students take to the air to get hands-on experience with next-generation avionics systems in a DC-3.

With 16 missions completed and two more on launch-range calendars for December, SpaceX could wrap up 2017 with more launches than any country.

The two-day Global Space Congress (GSC) returns to Abu Dhabi from January 31-February 1 at the St Regis Saadiyat Island Resort. Steve Nichols looks forward to the event.

A team of Emirati students and engineers will conduct a reduced-gravity parabolic flight experiment over Japan later this month, as part of the UAE Space Agency's capacity building program launched last year in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Twice faced with cancellation, the joint NASA-DLR project now has a budget surplus.

In this week’s Washington Outlook, ex-deputy defense secretary cautions on shorting computing research; costs up for Wfirst Telescope; terrorism a threat.

NASA’s proposed Deep Space Gateway is gathering enough interest among the U.S. ISS partnership to become part of the evolving Global Exploration Roadmap.

NASA has cleared SpaceX to use a previously flown Falcon 9 first stage for its upcoming cargo run to the International Space Station.

Vega has been a great success for Avio, encouraging further innovation for the rocket.

NASA’s multibillion-dollar Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope is undergoing a near-term, top-to-bottom cost/benefit analysis and a descoping of the technically challenging coronagraph.

SpaceX is still aiming for two to three more launches this year, but the debut flight of Falcon Heavy won’t be among them.

The CST-100 Starliner, one of two U.S. spacecraft in development for NASA International Space Station crew rotation, is on track for a 2018 debut.

In this week’s Washington Outlook, a Senate chairman’s bill still has many hurdles to overcome and the Transportation Department brings an end to Eastern Air Lines.

The spacecraft made by Ball Aerospace is the first of four similarly instrumented ones designed to extend severe weather forecasts out as far as seven days.

India and Japan are planning a joint mission to the Moon—the second time the two countries have teamed up for a lunar probe.

SpaceX’s launch of a classified mission for an undisclosed U.S. government customer will be delayed until at least December.

Experts in nuclear policy caution that changes to limit the president's authority on ordering a first strike could disrupt the U.S.’s ability to deter attacks.

The newly created national security launch subsidiary of Virgin Orbit has won its first contract from the U.S. Defense Department.

Made In Space the Silicon Valley 3D printing startup, is fashioning a metal fabrication capability for the in-space production of aluminum, stainless steel and titanium components.

The first private lunar mission is expected to launch in early 2018, a half-century after nations raced to get to the Moon.

Milestone completes Sierra Nevada’s paid NASA Commercial Crew work and sets up critical design review for unmanned station resupply missions. Photo: NASA

The launch of U.S. astronauts on more "one-year" International Space Station missions are not planned until commercial crew operations are underway.

Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to conduct a series of progressively higher-altitude drop tests of its Dream Chaser spacecraft following the successful completion of the flight at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, in Edwards, California.