Space

By Irene Klotz
Telesat is switching contractors to build satellites for its planned Lightspeed broadband communications network.
Commercial Space

Apurva Mahajan
The distinctive pattern of preserved mud cracks found by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers evidence which could mean the planet had potential for microbial life.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Astranis plans to launch by year’s end its UtilitySat, a multiband and relocatable small communications satellite.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Ad Astra Rocket Company is moving ahead with efforts to raise the TRL of its long-in-development VASIMR for a future in-space demonstration.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The Cygnus resupply capsule fired its delta velocity thruster early Aug. 11 to raise the International Space Station’s orbit.
Space

Apurva Mahajan
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has completed its 54th flight on Mars, performing a 25-sec. up-and-down hop on the surface.
Space

Aviation Week Staff
Luna-25, the first Russian lunar exploration mission in almost 50 years, is bound for the Moon.
Space

By Tony Osborne
German satellite launcher developer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has secured €30 million ($32.8 million) from global investment firm KKR.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
Despite developing Parkinson’s disease, one of Virgin Galactic’s first customers boarded the company’s VSS Unity spaceship for a suborbital ride.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Using inputs from the fledging HAPS industry, Frontex believes HAPS would be useful for Earth observation.
Commercial Space

Lunar Vertex (LVx) is a joint lander and rover payload combination that will land at Reiner Gamma on the lunar nearside.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Two Russian cosmonauts installed three orbital debris shields to the exterior of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment Rassvet.
Space

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX and NASA are meeting to discuss options for Artemis III’s return to the lunar surface.
Space

The mission date is to be announced at a later date, and the name of the astronaut awaits approval by NASA and the other ISS partners.
Commercial Space

NASA has awarded Advanced Space two new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contracts.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Northrop bids dasvidaniya to rocket’s Russian engines.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The offerings are built around a new family of vehicles known as Elytra (a term for the wings of a firefly).
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other key agency leaders are acknowledging challenges in meeting the December 2025 schedule for the Artemis III lunar landing.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The spacecraft originally were to fly on separate missions on startup ABL Space Systems’ RS1.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Benchmark Space Systems, a propulsion systems manufacturer, has raised a $33 million Series B round.
Commercial Space

Aviation Week Staff
Russia has started to modernize its Glonass space-based navigation system with a new generation of satellites.
Space

By Garrett Reim, Guy Norris
Space tourism company makes room for experiments and prototypes.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin has opened a 20,000-ft.2 small satellite assembly facility at its Waterton campus in Littleton, Colorado.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Amazon plans to take advantage of an earlier opportunity to fly a pair of test satellites for its Kuiper broadband constellation.
Commercial Space