Space

PGA-powered high-speed vehicle could double-up as stepping stone to Black Ice spaceplane as well as hypersonic flying testbed.

The mood at the AIAA Spaceplanes and Hypersonics conference was bullish amid growing investment in space infrastructure and hypersonic development. Listen in as our editors discuss their findings.

For Arianespace, the mission is a milestone, since it is the 100th launch of an Ariane 5 since its inception in 1996. The two satellites are the 206th and 207th launched by the heavy-lift vehicle.

Two Japanese mini-rovers touched down on the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu early Sept. 22 and are in motion and transmitting imagery.

An early customer for BFR puts a meaningful dent in estimated $5 billion development cost of BFR, says Musk.

As the International Space Station marks 20 years in low Earth orbit, NASA faces new imperative to expand its commercial realm.

Air launch space company Stratolaunch Systems has unveiled study plans for a pair of hypersonic flying testbeds that could be launched from the company’s very large carrier aircraft.

With the communications satellite market still in flux, launch service providers are counting on aggregators and manufacturers to broaden their product ranges.

The first five years of the Space Force is estimated to cost $12.9 billion, according to a Sept. 14 report included in a letter from Wilson obtained by Aerospace DAILY.

Russia is investigating how a drill hole ended up in the upper section of a Soyuz capsule that carried three crewmembers to the ISS in June.

Marks the 155th and final mission for the booster that helped put the U.S. back into the space business after the 1986 Challenger accident.

Some inroads are made in employee diversity in aerospace sectors, but more remains to be done.

To attract and retain top talent in light of tempting offers from disruptive innovation markets, aerospace companies are upping offers.

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.