Space

By Jay Menon
India’s state-run space agency is ramping up plans to get Indian industry more involved in satellite building.
Defense

By Mark Carreau, Irene Klotz
U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, a former Navy pilot, is not without technical know-how, though he chose a career in politics.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
Chinese move toward development of superheavy-lift Long March 9 launcher.
Space

By Irene Klotz
With visions of Moon missions and settlements on Mars, SpaceX prepares for the long-promised debut flight of its superheavy lifter.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Drone for Saturn’s moon; solar wing for atmospheric satellite; China develops alumics; robot applies riblets, and new alloy for metal printing.
Aerospace

The American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) has signed a partnership agreement with the UAE Space Agency.
Space

James R. Asker has flown in—and sometimes actually flown—a wide array of civil and military aircraft, and he can’t wait to see what amazing vehicles and creative businesses you will come up with next.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA spacecraft wraps up 13 years of pioneering fieldwork that shifted ideas of where to look for life beyond Earth. Cover credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space

By Irene Klotz
It was the first airborne test of Sierra Nevada Corp.’s (SNC) Dream Chaser vehicle in nearly four years.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston remained closed to all but essential personnel Aug. 29, four days after major hurricane-turned-tropical storm Harvey barged ashore on the Texas coast.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Microsoft’s AI soars; Near Earth to land Vahana; designing for 24-hr. hover; space-hardened computers
Aerospace

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s most ambitious space science endeavors are an essential part of maintaining U.S. leadership in space exploration, an assessment says.
Space

By Guy Norris
SpaceX successfully deployed the long-delayed FormoSat-5 remote sensing satellite into low Earth orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket on Aug. 24.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Faced with a flood of Earth imagery, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is considering commercial partnerships that go well beyond traditional defense procurements.
Space

By Jay Menon
The 21 launches will include the second test flight of India's heaviest rocket—the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle or GSLV Mk.3..
Space

By Mark Carreau
Until his selection as a NASA astronaut candidate in June, U.S. Navy Lt. Cdr. Matthew Dominick was serving as department head for Strike Fighter Squadron 115 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the waters off the coast of the Korean peninsula.
Space

By Mark Carreau
A kickstarter campaign has won pledges for the $5 million project from 15 countries as the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing nears.
Space

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Air Transport

By Mark Carreau
A pair of NASA jets soared from Houston early Aug. 21 and headed toward Kansas City, Missouri, for a high-altitude observation campaign focused on a rare total solar eclipse.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Russia staked claim to the first Earth-orbiting 3D-printed small satellite Aug. 17 following deployment of the Tomsk TPU-120 by cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin outside the International Space Station.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Orbital ATK’s medium-lift booster to put space surveillance satellite into orbit for U.S. Air Force.
Space

By Guy Norris
Generation Orbit Launch Services is preparing for a critical series of hot-fire and captive-carry flight tests of its hypersonic flying testbed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

The U.S. Army’s 110-lb. satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 14 aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Low-cost satellite constellations provide alternative systems for gathering key weather and other data.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Satellite manufacturers expect only 10-12 geosats to be ordered this year, solidifying a trend downward in the sector.
Commercial Space