Space

The agency is increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that are supporting such dramatic improvements in data collection rates.

The March 7 solicitation is among the U.S. Air Force’s corrective actions after Viasat filed a bid protest against two contract awards.

Thales Alenia Space secured another large GEO satellite contract, showing there is still life in a spacecraft market that has become a pain point for Europe.

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner may not return to flight this year as the OEM and NASA work to address the issues exposed in last year's troubled crew flight test.

The agency is developing a new satellite constellation in low Earth orbit known as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

"Suni" Williams has served as commander of ISS Expedition 72 since Sept. 23, 2024.

Launched Feb. 26, Intuitive’s Athena Nova-C lander descended autonomously onto Mons Mouton in the lunar south pole region on March 6 at 12:31 p.m.

The Boeing-made autonomous and maneuverable spaceplane was launched for its seventh mission on Dec. 28, 2023, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

Venture capital dealmaking in space technology reached $642 million in the first two months of the year, according to PitchBook data.

The cover of the Mar. 8 1965 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology shows a detailed contour map of the lunar surface, developed by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Flagstaff, Arizona, laboratories based on the last photograph made of the Moon by Ranger 7.

Singapore-based Transcelestial will place its satellite-to-ground laser communication system on the 6GStarLab satellite, a low-Earth-orbit spacecraft.

NASA’s commercial lunar services initiative scores another major win.

At about 8 min. and 30 sec. into flight Starship–in the final 20 or 30 sec. of its ascent burn–lost several engines and attitude control.

Planet aims to use Claude’s reasoning and pattern recognition abilities to analyze its daily scan of Earth, the company said on March 6.

Intuitive and NASA are awaiting imagery from the agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to establish whether Athena is upright, leaning, or tipped over.

The service could readily exchange data with the members of its Commercial Integration Cell (CIC), including Intelsat itself.

The Ariane 6’s second flight, mission VA263, took off at 11:24 a.m. ET March 6 from the European spaceport at French Guiana.

The 52-min. launch window is currently set to open at 9:25 a.m. EST.

A recent bid protest and government report have heightened scrutiny of the Space Development Agency’s rapid acquisition model.

Those payloads are collecting “all kinds of very interesting data” on Beijing’s network of space surveillance satellites, Space RCO Director Kelly Hammett said.

The space agency plans to cease operating Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24 to conserve power.

NASA says the technology could serve as a “stepping stone to advanced navigation systems and services for the Moon and Mars.”

The Space Systems Center plans to expand the reach of the optical crosslinks in stages.

The service on March 5 said it planned to award a sole-source contract to Boeing for the work that it aims to have completed before next Oct. 1.

Civilian cellular network technology has many military uses.