Space

India’s experimental space plane aims to reduce the cost of access to space.

After reinventing the Ariane launcher program to compete with the SpaceX Falcon 9, Airbus tackles rocket reusability plan to compete with recoverable Falcon 9 core stage.

India is preparing to carry out an experimental flight of its reusable launch vehicle, a senior space scientist says.

Boeing CEO talks with Aviation Week editors about the state of his company and his legacy.

With commercial aircraft output continuing to rise and military aircraft production set to increase, Aviation Week looks at the pressures facing the global aerospace industry.

Established satellite manufacturers, including Airbus and Thales, are moving toward mass production to meet demand for small sats from Silicon Valley.

Before the RFP was even issued, USAF incurred a possible Procurement Integrity Act violation in the EELV competition.

A number of new and potential partners are helping CNES expand the range and scope of its mission in space.

Seeking to capitalize on steady growth in Earth observation, European satellite manufacturers are taking steps to boost output as export customers materialize among emerging space economies.

NASA’s planned mission to Jupiter moon Europa will use new instruments to look for conditions suitable for life.

A spate of Proton launch mishaps has created a de facto duopoly of Arianespace and SpaceX, two companies vying to dominate the global commercial launch market.

Aerojet Rocketdyne seeks sole-source contract to produce expendable engines for NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System.

Leading-edge technologies and groundbreaking products highlight offerings from four small exhibitors in Paris.

The U.S. Air Force is investigating an accidental release of sensitive information that occurred leading up to the June 2 request for proposals for the service’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.

Few fireworks are expected at Paris this year, but retrenching and refocusing of products will be highlighted in all arenas—commercial, defense, space and technology.

SpaceX clears hurdle to take on ULA: First up, a battle for GPS III

Los Angeles -- Boeing has been awarded the first crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from NASA, marking a key milestone in the agency’s five-year effort to develop an indigenous U.S. capability to launch American astronauts to low earth orbit.

The United Launch Alliance is no longer the only rocket manufacturer capable of winning national security missions in the U.S.

“Our goal is to build rocket engine parts up to 10 times faster and reduce cost by more than 50%,” says Chris Protz, lead engineer on the project at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. “We are developing a repeatable process that industry can adopt to manufacture engine parts with advanced designs.”

Astrosat, India’s first astronomy-centered satellite, is set for launch in about five months; the parameters of the spacecraft are “normal, which indicates everything is functioning well,” ISRO states.

Vricon aims to reduce the cost and increase the speed of 3-D images for the military, intelligence and civilian customers.

Real-time space vehicle data will help the FAA deploy dynamic protective boundaries around a plethora of space activities set to begin in the next few years.

Aerojet consortium may challenge ULA’s monopoly of national security launch market.

A longtime space-engineering company is about to take the plunge into commercial space with a commercial hyperspectral imager for the International Space Station.

The U.S. space agency faces a $150 million bill to human-rate an upper stage for one flight.