Space

Nominations for the 2019 Laureates Awards close Oct. 18, and submissions to the photo contest are open until Oct. 22.

Details of the SpaceX passenger flight will be announced on Sept. 17, CEO Elon Musk said Sept. 13.

The first GPS III is scheduled for launch in December, and Lockheed Martin is looking at technologies for a tranche of satellites.

The imminent restart of manned spaceflights from U.S. soil raises questions for Europe, Arianespace CEO Stephane Israel said.

A look at some of the world’s up-and-coming positioning, navigation and timing constellations.

Iridium Next, Iridium’s replacement constellation with improved capability for global communications, is close to completion.

China’s Beidou 3 satellite navigation system may be completed in the first half of 2020, earlier than expected.

CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall was in Abu Dhabi for the opening of its new office at the French Embassy, and the arrival of Donato Giorgi, CNES’s representative and Space Advisor to the UAE.

There could be a space-induced leap in human consciousness as we collectively become a spacefaring civilization.

Phase Four’s RF thruster plan marks progress toward lower-cost electric in-space propulsion.

DARPA has returned to the stratospheric domain with a project aimed at demonstrating that a lighter-than-air balloon can drift between wind layers to navigate at altitudes up to 90,000 ft. for days or weeks at a time.

Rather than landing back on Earth, ULA Vulcan rockets will parachute just its engines for refurbishment and reflight.

Once the workhorse of the U.S. launch fleet, United Launch Alliance’s Delta II heads into the history books.

Having already felt the bite of U.S. competition, Arianespace counting on new rocket to keep it in the commercial space launch game

Borrowing best practices, technologies from heritage Atlas and Delta programs, ULA pivots to compete in new space environment.

The small hole in one of the Soyuz capsules parked at the ISS has been patched, but the mystery about what caused it is deepening daily on Earth.

Sensor upgrades and propulsion advances set to boost IAI space-based intelligence-gathering.

Vacuum-chamber test results drive design improvements to NASA Mars Helicopter.

The UAE Space Agency has launched a new online portal called ‘iShuttle'. The new portal is designed to engage with and drive interest in space among students, teachers and the wider public.

NASA aims to leverage commercial satellite technology and industry practices into a power and propulsion module for a lunar-orbiting gateway.

Virgin Orbit is on the verge of flying its LauncherOne rocket under the wing of the company’s modified Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft for the first time.

Bye flies StratoAirNet; Singapore’s solar quadcopter; Boeing’s synchronized UAVs; Echodyne’s radar approved; UK BVLOS drone corridor.

What the latest acquisitions by Boeing and Lockheed, and a possible sale by Maxar, tell us about the future of LEO, smallsats and geosats.

Space startup develops larger follow-on 3D metal printer to augment its “Stargate” device.

Stratolaunch Systems has unveiled details of the vehicles it is developing for deployment from the very large carrier aircraft in the final stages of preflight testing.