Don’t count on a big defense spending increase this year; report finds SLS NASA’s deadline rush cost millions, and the fight over air traffic control continues.
As NASA charts a course to Mars for human explorers with ever more capable hardware and software systems, policymakers, mission managers and those who launch face some tough ethical issues.
From the big rockets for human spaceflight to the swarms of tiny cubesats revolutionizing data and bandwidth, the space economy is making a name for itself.
Whether it is found in our Solar System or another one, discovery of another life form will mean we are not unique in the universe, and probably not even rare.
In this week’s Washington Outlook: Republicans lobby for end to defense budget limits, SpaceX seeks regulatory changes for broadband constellation and will the airlines regulate themselves?
Reaction Engines has begun construction of a test facility where it plans to perform the first ground-based demonstration of its Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine.
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall met Valanathan Munsami, the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), on the sidelines of the meeting of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).
Trump and NATO defense spending; investor calls on Musk to stop cooperating with the president; the F-35’s air show prospects; and goodbye to a government shutdown.
Exploration Mission-1, NASA’s planned first flight of its heavy-lift Space Launch System and Orion deep-space crew capsule, won’t make its target launch date of November 2018.
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall was at a conference organized by the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology and the French Embassy in Morocco to give a talk on the challenges of space exploration and the Galileo programme.
The president's remarks came as he congratulated International Space Station commander Peggy Whitson for breaking the record for time spent orbiting Earth.
