Space

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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.

Russia EW work bears fruit, Germany sets up heavy-lift helo competition, SSL wins USAF space study work, Canada buys naval self-defense system support package.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared off its Cape Canaveral launch pad Jan. 31 to put a communications satellite into orbit for SES and Luxembourg.

In January 1958, after initial failures with Vanguard and U.S.S.R. success with Sputnik, the U.S. made it into orbit.

Preliminary fiscal 2019 spending plan also aims to end direct funding of space station in 2025.

What do aerospace and defense companies need to think of now as artificial intelligence spreads across the industry in earnest?

Rocket Lab’s Electron small-satellite launcher blasted off from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula on Jan. 20 for a second test flight.

Stephane Israel, Arianespace CEO, announced the anomaly at 6:24 p.m. EST, 64 min. after what appeared to be a flawless liftoff with the SES-14 and Al Yah 3 telecommunications satellites.

The Ariane 5 rocket carrying Yahsat's third satellite "Al Yah 3" is in position for launch from French Guiana. A successful launch will mean Yahsat's commercial Ka-band coverage will be extended to an additional 20 markets, reaching 60% of Africa's population and over 95% of Brazil's population.

Rating commercial crew vehicles on their chance of flight fatality turns out to be a nuanced art and science.

The Google-backed $30-million contest to fly and operate a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon before March 31 is ending without any contestants ever blasting off.

The long-awaited engine test of SpaceX's new triple-core Falcon Heavy rocket will not proceed due to the suspension of non-essential U.S. government services.

With U.S. ferry flights on Russian Soyuz ending next year, pressure is on to get U.S. space taxis flying, without sacrificing safety.

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson quickly puts her finger on two major challenges facing astronauts traveling to deep space destinations like the Moon and Mars.

The Italian space industry is driving Europe’s effort to have a reusable vehicle, with an original commercial target.

The growth in commercial space could allow NASA to hitch a ride to a port in GEO orbit from which to explore the Moon, Mars and the entire Solar System.