Space

South Korea's Innospace says it has taken another step toward the inaugural launch of its Hanbit-Nano rocket by the year's end.

President Donald Trump is replacing acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro with U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

The Space Force is replacing its legacy tactical and strategic satellite communications assets with disaggregated and proliferated spacecraft.

MDA Space says it demonstrated a Ka-band direct radiating array using direct sampling.

Before the Indian Space Research Organization launches the first uncrewed flight test of its Gaganyaan capsule, one astronaut is now an experienced space flyer.

Spain will again rely on Airbus to provide its radar satellites with a replacement.

Congress and the White House are sending NASA mixed messages about the future of the Artemis program to return humans to the Moon.

The pace of in-space servicing missions is picking up, with at least nine endeavors planned over the next 18 months.

Europe’s meteorological agency Eumetsat wants to go ahead with the EPS-Sterna program that aims to grow a system of 20 weather-monitoring satellites.

The European Space Agency has named five companies as participants in its European Launcher Challenge.

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) says the winner of its satellite deorbit demo will pick the spacecraft they will attempt to remove from orbit.

In the issue dated May 31, 2010, we reported that the James Webb Space Telescope would take scientists back nearly to the Big Bang and the early formation of the first objects in the universe.

Texas lawmakers are a step closer to snatching away the National Air and Space Museum's prized space shuttle and moving it from Northern Virginia to Houston.

ESA says astronomers have now confirmed the discovery of only the third interstellar comet and it is due for its closest approach to Earth in October.

The Defense Department’s latest budget plan goes all in on space-based moving-target tracking.

A new leader, a funding plan and an architecture outline define the early steps toward Trump’s hawkish homeland defense plan.

Russia’s Progress MS-31 resupply capsule is set for a July 5 arrival and docking at the International Space Station following a July 3 launch.

Boeing has landed the Evolved Strategic Satcom program, the U.S. Space Force said, as the service also cancels the Protected Tactical Satcom-Resilient program.

MacLean Engineering & Applied Technologies won a five-year, maximum-value $150 million contract to provide simulation and advanced software services to NASA.

Boeing has appointed Stephen Parker as president and chief executive officer of its Defence, Space & Security (BDS) business, effective immediately.

The UK Space Agency plans to perform a space debris removal demo and has kicked off the search for a domestic vendor for the mission.

In the waning days of June, NASA and its contractors conducted three tests and demonstrations for Artemis missions that the Trump administration seeks to end.

The Space Development Agency plans to tap into a pool of prescreened contractors to mature technologies for future satellite constellations.

The Defense Department is debating how best to develop the space-based data connectivity backbone of its future force.

The Deep Impact impactor spacecraft scored a direct hit on Tempel 1 on July 4, (see page 28). The flyby craft took this picture 67 sec. after the strike with its high-resolution camera.