Space

By Garrett Reim
Do we have too many resources going to people in big government labs?
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Miniaturized and qualified for space use, Optical Air Data Systems’ laser velocity sensor is finding renewed aviation interest.
Emerging Technologies

By Matthew Fulco
Lockheed Martin has led a $100 million Series B investment in X-Bow Systems, a defense technology startup that manufactures solid rocket motors.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA has named four new inductees into the agency’s Inventors Hall of Fame.
Space Exploration

Aviation Week Staff
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos and China National Space Administration have signed a memorandum of cooperation to create a power station on the Moon.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
Satellite broadband provider Viasat says its Global Xpress service is now available in arctic regions that are part of its wider expansion plans.
Satellites

By Matthew Fulco
The island has scrambled to assemble an adroit supplier team after failing to reach an agreement with Elon Musk-owned Starlink.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
German startup Atmos Space Cargo has struck a joint venture agreement with uncrewed ground vehicle maker ARX Robotics.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Trump sees SpaceX and the private sector taking over deep-space travel for the U.S. space program.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
Rocket Lab says it plans to fly its Neutron launcher in a U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) mission rocket cargo experiment.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Much of the planned science return from NASA’s Artemis III Moon landing mission with astronauts will be contained in a look at the solar system’s earliest era.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
The U.S. Space Force has said it will fund CACI, General Atomics, and Viasat for further work into space laser communications terminal work.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
Leonardo is exploring the purchase of a company in the small satellite sector, even as it advances talks with a strategic partner.
Satellites

By Michael Bruno
Commercial quantum computing and networking company IonQ said it will buy the space company later this year.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
Rheinmetall agrees to set up a joint venture with its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) spacecraft partner Iceye.
Satellites

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space, competing for the Space Force’s first batch of R-GPS satellites, has demonstrated integration of an early iteration of the hardware and software.
Satellites

In line with the UAE’s vision to lead Arab cooperation in the space sector, the Arab Satellite 813 Program team has successfully concluded the System Integration Review (SIR).
Space

By Matthew Fulco
Indian space startup InspeCity has raised $5.6 million in a seed round.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
Interlune has won two contracts to sell thousands of liters of helium-3 excavated from the Moon’s surface and to deliver the rare gas to Earth.
Commercial Space

By Robert Wall
The growing threat to space systems is driving a demand for greater resilience, argues the Luftwaffe’s head of space command.
Satellites

By Irene Klotz
Pieces of a Soviet-era spacecraft, stranded in Earth orbit after a failed launch to Venus 53 years ago, are heading back into the atmosphere this week.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
An early indication of NASA’s response to the Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 budget is expected later this spring.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
The U.S. Space Force says it has completed a critical propulsion test of the Oracle-M space situational awareness system.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Humanity has entered a second space age, NASA’s now-retired first chief economist says.
Space Exploration

Aviation Week Network Staff
Grumman Aerospace Corp. space shuttle design has a booster suing 12 rocket engines using 4,000 lb thrust each on an airframe 208 ft. wing span.
Space