Space

Although no longer designated a threat, Asteroid 2024 YR4’s projected path has renewed calls for enhanced planetary defense and near-Earth-object missions.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is expected to return to orbit late this year or in early 2026.

Rocket Lab and Stoke Space have been added to the U.S. Space Force's list of launch providers eligible for lower-risk National Security Space Launch missions.

From missile defense to ISR, navigation and earth observation, RTX’s space solutions turn data into decisions that deliver mission breakthroughs.

The USAF is debating whether to cancel a series of current and future contracts for the Space Development Agency and to use SpaceX-built assets instead.

Isar Aerospace is now targeting the test flight for no earlier than March 29.

NASA is facing cybersecurity challenges that include the system’s integration into long-term missions that rely on legacy technologies.

A $25 billion concept for a Golden Dome upper-layer of 2,000 space-based interceptors has been unveiled by Booz Allen.

In compliance with a presidential directive, NASA is backtracking on a promise to include a woman and a person of color on the Artemis III crew.

Teams of artificial intelligence agents could reduce engineering time from months to minutes.

United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket has been certified by the U.S. Space Force to fly high-priority national security space missions.

The concept of dynamic space operations has taken on an urgency at U.S. Space Command and within the broader U.S. Space Force.

Greg Autry has been nominated to serve as NASA's chief financial officer.

SpaceWERX has awarded a strategic funding increase to Gravitics of Seattle to demonstrate its “Orbital Carrier.”

Isar Aerospace said March 26 that it is now targeting the test flight of its Spectrum rocket to no earlier than March 28.

Spirent Communications has been chosen by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to provide lunar position, navigation and timing simulations.

Parker Solar Probe mission has been named the recipient of the 2024 Robert J. Collier Trophy.

The new product effectively allows users to fuse drone full-motion video with Maxar’s precision, three-dimensional digital globe product.

Optical cross-link technology is maturing at a critical juncture, with government and commercial customers pouring billions into proliferated constellations.

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has found the largest collection of organic samples to date on the red planet.

The European Launcher Challenge, a keystone effort to diversify homegrown rocket options, has been formally kicked off by the European Space Agency.

The NROL-57 mission was launched March 21 at 2:49 a.m. EDT, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg SFB, California.

The doubling of Planet Labs' growth rate would come roughly at the midpoint of the company’s guidance for the current fiscal year of $260-280 million.

On the cover of the March 24, 1958 issue, is the North American XSM-64 Navaho supersonic intercontinental guided missile, photographed on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Isar Aerospace is targeting March 24 for the inaugural mission of its Spectrum rocket in what would be a milestone as the first orbit launch from European soil.