Space

NASA’s intrepid, 42-year-old planetary probe joins its twin beyond the heliopause.

The FAA’s GPS augmentation system supports NextGen precision navigation procedures and ADS-B.

Despite cultural and funding differences, SpaceX and Boeing are neck-in-neck in development of commercial space taxis for NASA.

Entrepreneur eyes an AAA-type service in space.

O’Neill is the Falcon rocket fleet strategy manager, and Picon works as a mission manager of SpaceX’s Demo-1 and Demo-2 missions for NASA.

Airline pilots union endorses Space Data Integrator and Space-Based ADS-B for oceanic airspace.

Partnerships with countries, companies are the foundation for growing UAE space program.

Virgin Galactic sees service starting next year and a fleet of five spaceships within five years. Meanwhile, investors and future customers continue to line up.

The UAE Space Agency and Krypto Labs, the global innovation hub, have announced the two winning teams of the GeoTech Innovation Programme.

Heritage aerospace primes Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman agree to work under startup Blue Origin in quest to get NASA to the Moon in 2024.

Airbus backs advanced batteries; VoloDrone; Seaplane becomes ePlane; DARPA’s launch conundrum; GE-powered drone; pilots and drones; Uber Eats’ drone delivers.

October 2019 may go down in history as a New Space turning point: the first publicly traded human spaceflight company and the first space holding company.

German heavy helo logistics proposal; space-based sensor demonstration contracts; Japan’s hedge against fighter failure and a new contract for F-35s.

Higher combustion chamber pressures for the first stage and staged-combustion for the second stage would improve the launcher.

Developing and advanced nations will start using surveillance data provided by Aireon.

The key to the cost reduction will be an efficient production setup and use of hybrid solid-liquid propulsion.

U.S. Air Force adversary air providers; European tanker requirements; Russia seeks MiG-35 customers; and the U.S. is now operating polar protected satcom satellites.

Amid calls for tangible support to launcher programs, ESA member states to discuss $14 billion budget proposal.

NASA shows off Orion crew survival suit, prototype for lunar spacewalks.

To send astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a lunar landing system needs to be ready in less than half the time it has taken to develop Commercial Crew vehicles.

What aerospace companies can learn from the MAX crisis.

Boeing and SpaceX face final key tests as they enter the home stretch in delayed development of NASA’s Commercial Crew program.

Boeing has demoted Dennis Muilenburg on the board of directors, and giving the chair seat to the company’s leading independent director, David Calhoun, in the wake of the 737 MAX fiasco. Muilenburg will remain president and CEO.

Flying onboard the SOFIA Boeing 747SP airborne observatory during its annual New Zealand deployment gives an insight into NASA’s infrared astronomy program.

William H. Gregory, a World War II naval aviator, joined Aviation Week in 1956 and served as editor-in-chief from 1979 to 1984.