Space

Leanne Caret is focused daily on righting the KC-46A tanker program and increasing Boeing’s emphasis on commercial derivatives, rotorcraft, human space exploration, satellites, autonomous systems and services.

Will the candidate’s rhetoric evolve?; associations prod House leaders to pass FAA bill; Elon Musk goes to the Pentagon.

The idea that U.K. aerospace would somehow fare better if London no longer has a seat at the table in EU negotiations is ludicrous.

With its selection as a third cargo carrier in NASA’s second-round Commercial Resupply Services competition, Sierra Nevada Corp. is pushing Dream Chaser into the international marketplace.

Astronauts are installing sensors that will watch how the pod responds to temperature, radiation and orbital debris.

Progress in reusable suborbital space flight hastens the day when researchers can study the transition zone from gravity to its absence.

Smith shepherded the rise of the U.S. commercial spaceflight industry, drafting licensing and safety regulations while providing freedom to innovate.

The Blue Origin New Shepard reusable suborbital launch system has joined NASA’s stable of rides to space and near-space for experiments under its Flight Opportunities Program.

Despite flat-to-declining revenue in traditional telecom markets, satellite operators are digging into their pockets as they expand into aeronautical, maritime and consumer Internet connectivity.

OneWeb Satellites, a 50/50 joint venture owned by OneWeb LLC and Airbus Defense and Space, has selected its first top-tier subcontractors to supply equipment for a new constellation of small Internet spacecraft that will operate in low Earth orbit.

A NASA paper looks ahead at in situ resource utilization on Mars, which will be necessary to sustain astronauts for any length of time.

The commercial space launch company is a subcontractor on a classified contract to loft the NROL-76 mission.

Top U.S. officials seek to balance the use of government-made spy satellites with new commercial developments in imagery and intelligence collection and analysis.

We are ready to commercialize low Earth orbit. NASA should help but focus long-term on getting humans to Mars.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is slated to launch a classified U.S. National Reconnaissance Office payload next year in an arrangement that appears to have been brokered by a third party.

When completed in 2018, the Blue Abyss space-environment simulation pool will be the largest in the world.

The head of India’s space research agency predicts a reusable rocket could lead to a 10-fold drop in launch prices.

Future times are upon us, with everything from advanced data analysis to robots gone rogue discussed at the opening of The Washington Post’s new conference center.

Technicians at Virginia’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport erected an Antares first stage outfitted with two Russian RD-181 rocket engines.

If all goes as planned, Orbital ATK will resume commercial cargo flights to the International Space Station with Antares this summer.

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NASA is using data it has collected from orbit and the Martian surface to seek “exploration zones” that encompass all of the features that would make up a successful human mission—a safe landing zone near water supplies that could be mined for oxygen and rocket propellant.

When five highly regarded and diverse business visionaries all bet on a similar supply chain approach, it certainly merits our attention.

Remember the point Darth Vader made to Adm. Motti during the war council scene in “Star Wars IV?” Don’t choke.

NASA stands to gain plenty for itself by helping SpaceX get to Mars. An amended Space Act Agreement makes clear the agency can use whatever it learns to land its own vehicles on Mars, it just can’t share it with any of SpaceX’s competitors.