Space

Aviation Week Staff
The Wings Club Foundation’s annual scholarships provide financial support to students who have demonstrated academic success in a higher education program.
Maintenance & Training

By Mark Carreau
The company provided a static version of the two-person vehicle to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in September.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered a cold welding experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 5.
Commercial Space

Brent Sherwood
Deorbiting the ultra-high-power International Space Station would be a waste of energy, literally and figuratively.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
Building a skilled technical workforce for the 2040s is among NASA’s biggest challenges.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Vivienne Machi
The Pentagon has historically kept the spaceplane’s capabilities and mission objectives under wraps.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Rolled out on Jan. 12, the X-59 previously used external sources for power.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The seven-member review team selected in mid-October is currently assessing a dozen MSR concepts.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
The agency, in a Nov. 5 solicitation, said the work will relate mainly to an X-ray mirror assembly for AXIS.
Satellites

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX said it would try to launch another Starship-Super Heavy vehicle as early as 5 p.m. EST Nov. 18.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
The wildcatting company sees lucrative potential in mining platinum in space.
Commercial Space

By Vivienne Machi
The service is preparing for a major overhaul of its military-grade satellite communications architecture over the next decade.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
A quantum gravity gradiometer measures variations in gravitational acceleration.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
The Soyuz-2.1b medium-lift vehicle with a Fregat upper stage took off Nov. 4 at 6:18 p.m. EST from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport.
Satellites

By Mark Carreau
The $1.6 billion mission was launched Aug. 12, 2018, on a seven-year primary mission to gather firsthand data on the solar corona, or the Sun’s atmosphere.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
The SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the U.S. segment of the ISS on Nov. 5 to deliver 6,000 lb. of supplies, station hardware and research material.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
Spire Global has disclosed new talks with lender Blue Torch Capital to get relief on some loan terms as it tries to complete a full review of its financials.
Satellites

By Irene Klotz
Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A followed a Falcon 9 scrub Nov. 3 at the neighboring Cape Canaveral SFS Space Launch Complex 40.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
The SETI Institute has announced the selection of astronomer Jill Tarter, an institute co-founder and longtime researcher, as the inaugural recipient of the Tarter Award.
Space Exploration

By Vivienne Machi
The Denver-based company is perhaps best known as a co-developer of the free-flying Starlab commercial space station for NASA.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Kymeta has unveiled its second multi-orbit, on-the-move flat-panel antenna, the Goshawk u8.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
The UK Defense Ministry has awarded a contract to Airbus’s Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. for an Earth-observation satellite in a push toward sovereign ISR.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
Japan successfully launched an X-band communications satellite using the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H3 rocket.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
Australia has cancelled a program to buy and field a geostationary military satellite program, saying it wants to invest in a multi-orbit constellation.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
The new constellation will expand cellular service for Apple users, Globalstar disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Nov. 1.
Commercial Space