Space

The jury is still out on which business model and network architecture could thrive in the satellite telecommunications market in the near future.

Deal would put Northrop Grumman back in the human spaceflight business.

Only NASA’s Juno spacecraft remains in orbit around a planet beyond Mars, and its days also are numbered.

The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft was lost on Aug. 31.

Northrop Grumman will buy Orbital ATK for $9.2 billion, the companies announced early Sept. 18.

LeoLabs teams with Planet; Swiss demo U-space; fuel cell powers multicopter drone.

Boeing and ArianeGroup will jointly develop a new generation of electric thrusters for satellites.

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Two Ariane 6s will launch four Galileo satellites in 2020-2021.

Nearly out of propellant, Cassini will plow directly into Saturn’s clouds on Sept. 15.

Eumetsat's option is for an Ariane 62, the medium version of the rocket destined to replace Arianespace’s workhorse Ariane 5.

Satellite developer Cloud Constellation has formally selected Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket to deploy the first 12 spacecraft forming its initial SpaceBelt constellation of space-based cloud storage data centers.

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took a final swing around Titan Sept. 11, taking advantage of the giant moon’s gravity to slingshot itself onto a dead-end path into Saturn’s atmosphere.

In the presence of President Emmanuel Macron and the Emir of Dubai, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Chairman of the United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAESA), signed a joint declaration of interest on tackling climate change.

In this week's Washington Outlook: Lawmakers pounce on inspector’s findings regarding FAA’s next-gen ATC modernization program; Congress makes a deal to keep the government open; and a view of why it is so hard to buy military space gear.

India’s state-run space agency is ramping up plans to get Indian industry more involved in satellite building.

U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, a former Navy pilot, is not without technical know-how, though he chose a career in politics.

Chinese move toward development of superheavy-lift Long March 9 launcher.

With visions of Moon missions and settlements on Mars, SpaceX prepares for the long-promised debut flight of its superheavy lifter.

Drone for Saturn’s moon; solar wing for atmospheric satellite; China develops alumics; robot applies riblets, and new alloy for metal printing.

The American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) has signed a partnership agreement with the UAE Space Agency.

James R. Asker has flown in—and sometimes actually flown—a wide array of civil and military aircraft, and he can’t wait to see what amazing vehicles and creative businesses you will come up with next.

NASA spacecraft wraps up 13 years of pioneering fieldwork that shifted ideas of where to look for life beyond Earth. Cover credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

It was the first airborne test of Sierra Nevada Corp.’s (SNC) Dream Chaser vehicle in nearly four years.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston remained closed to all but essential personnel Aug. 29, four days after major hurricane-turned-tropical storm Harvey barged ashore on the Texas coast.