Space

A new South Korean rocket launched a reconnaissance satellite using a rocket that included a solid rocket motor for the first time.

The UK Defense Ministry says Cawdor Barracks, formerly a U.K. Royal Air Force flight training base, has been named as the preferred DARC site.

Plans for an automated docking were changed because the cargo capsule was slightly out of alignment as it approached the ISS.

Lockheed Martin plans to launch to space a wideband electronically steerable antenna.

Space launch activity reached an all-time high in 2023, but public new-space company valuations remain pressured.

The Russian space agency’s Progress MS-25 resupply capsule began a two-day, 34-orbit trajectory to the International Space Station early Dec. 1.

NASA is unlikely to return astronauts to the Moon’s surface by December 2025 with its Artemis III mission, a GAO audit says.

Former NASA chief Dan Goldin oversaw creation of the station. What does he think of it now? Listen in to find out.

"Mary was a force of nature with a passion for science, exploration and caring for our home planet," says Bob Cabana, NASA's associate administrator.

An unstable gyro has prompted observations to be suspended from the 33-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, with NASA saying it is working to restore function.

Major technical issues with the behind-schedule Ariane 6 have been resolved and the schedule has been stabilized, ESA says.

The U.S. will need to make more spacecraft more quickly and less expensively.

NASA soon intends to lift the curtain on a whole new strategy of turning to America’s private sector for the launch of a lunar lander.

Helped by international players, the UAE has become a regional leader in space.

Link 16 is a tactical data link used by the U.S. military, NATO, and U.S. coalition partner nations.

NASA's Kennedy Space Center is still looking to become a world-leading multiuser spaceport.

SSC has awarded Lockheed Martin a $5.2 million contract to prototype missile typing and characterizing algorithms for overhead persistent infrared satellites.

Steve Jurczyk, a retired 32-year NASA veteran who served in a variety of administrative positions including acting administrator, has passed away.

The test rocket went through a complete launch countdown procedure in French Guiana followed by full firing of the core stage’s Vulcain 2.1 engine.

Resilient PNT will require multiple alternatives to the singular GPS.

The UK is to install a telescope on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus to improve British space domain awareness capabilities.

Major technical risks were retired by the performance of SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk has been named the third crew member for the first operational mission of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner to the ISS.

India’s space economy could reach $77 billion in value by 2030 from $15 billion in 2023, according to a recent report by the Indian media Inc42.