Space

Ukrainian engineers are helping Chinese industry with the study of engine designs.

China will launch a prototype of its new crewed spacecraft in April, the government’s Xinhua news agency reported, two months after the rocket to be used for the mission returned to service following a 2017 failure.

The company aims to produce up to 42 engines per year at the new plant.

A flurry of nine small satellites has been successfully deployed from the International Space Station, after having been launched to the orbiting science lab aboard SpaceX Dragon and Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply missions in early December and November.

How lawmakers and the administration are responding to the most surprising proposals in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2021 budget request.

If Astra succeeds in placing the DARPA-provided payload into low Earth orbit by March 1, Astra will win $2 million and an opportunity to launch a second time and take the grand prize of $10 million.

Roscomos cites unspecified medical issues in its decision to replace both freshman cosmonauts due to launch to the space station in April.

Rocket Factory Augsburg, part of Germany’s OHB group, is progressing toward the first flight of its mini-launcher late next year.

NASA is awarding eight competitively selected U.S. university teams nearly $1 million in grants to develop lunar payload concepts for the study of permanently shadowed regions of the Moon that could contain significant deposits of water ice.

SpaceX tests space tourism waters by signing up with experienced flight services company.

Often characterized as host to an uninhabitable runaway greenhouse environment, Earth’s neighboring planet Venus nevertheless offers a compelling destination for planetary scientists.

SpaceX has signed an agreement with Space Adventures, a Washington-based space travel company, to market a Crew Dragon orbital spaceflight for four privately paying passengers.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully grappled Northrop Grumman’s 13th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply capsule early Feb. 18.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral AFS with a fifth batch of the company’s Starlink broadband satellites.

The NASA-contracted Cygnus spacecraft was on course to reach the ISS with Feb. 18 following a successful liftoff from the Wallops Island Flight Facility

The budding space tourism company's publicly traded shares jumped more than 21% when investors saw a captive-carry transport flight of VSS Unity to its new commercial headquarters at Spaceport America in New Mexico.

A third attempt to lift off is scheduled for Feb. 15 at 3:21 p.m. EST.

Satellite-based synthetic-aperture radar services provider Iceye has hired the former Google executive who led development of the Terra Bella Earth imaging constellation as its new U.S. CEO, and the move signals plans to make satellites in the U.S.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return spacecraft encountered trouble with its Canadian-made laser altimeter Feb. 11 as it made a close survey of a possible sample selection site on the asteroid Bennu.

With its fiscal 2021 budget request, the U.S. Air Force has consolidated funding for its first three Vanguard science and technology programs, to provide a clearer understanding of efforts to accelerate the fielding of new capabilities.

Flight test exposed Starliner software glitches, but NASA is more concerned about what else may be lurking in process flaws.

With global spectrum rights in hand and ground stations under construction, OneWeb plans to roll out high-speed, global internet service.

Derek Tournear leads the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency that is charged with defining a National Defense Space Architecture that addresses eight critical yet unmet priorities outlined in the Defense Department Space Vision.

Record-setting NASA astronaut Christina Koch has some advice for fellow space explorers preparing for their first long mission.

Accelerating plans to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024 will cost $35 billion, says NASA.