Space

SpaceX CRS-31 is scheduled to launch on the Falcon 9 rocket with the Cargo Dragon capsule from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 4 .

SpaceX’s Starship booster “catch” at the launchpad wowed the space world, but big hurdles remain to launching humans to Mars in 2028.

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) made special mention during its fourth-quarter session of how mission management openly addressed safety concerns.

The European Union as taken the first of two procedural steps to move forward with its proposed sovereign satellite communications constellation.

The New Mexico-based company is developing high-altitude platform station (HAPS) airships that fly for long durations in the stratosphere.

The service is pursuing an “allied by design” approach that includes a new push for space-related military sales.

The Space RCO is one of three acquisition agencies under the U.S. Space Force and headquartered at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.

Last June, the service awarded the initial NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 contracts worth $5.6 billion to United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and SpaceX.

The Office released the BALISTA query in March 2024.

Marc Bell, Terran Orbital’s co-founder, chairman and CEO, was “separated” from the company upon close of the acquisition.

A pair of rookie Chinese taikonauts joined veteran commander Cai Xuzhe for a 6 1/2-hr. ride to China’s Tiangong space station.

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) team has conducted a preliminary design review (PDR) and discussed its latest developments.

Our journalist Craig Covault reported in the Nov. 6, 2000 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology how, after years of International Space Station (ISS) delays, the project was finally manned, and, despite coordination of U.S.-Russian ground operations, remains as difficult as the work in space.

China has sent its Shenzhou-19 astronauts into space, with the Long March-2F Y19 carrier rocket lifting off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Oct. 30.

From project financing to launcher and exploration initiatives, the region is devising an agenda to stay in the global space race.

Endurance is an autonomous lunar rover concept in development for a landing at the center of the South Pole Aitkin Basin (SPA) on the Moon’s unexplored far side.

The China Manned Space Agency has downselected two “low-cost cargo transporter” concepts to fulfill cost-efficient methods to supply the Tiangong space station.

Shaky business models have nowhere to hide in public markets, while several stronger space startups are finding a way forward.

Surviving and operating during the harsh lunar night is the top concern.

Agency officials, however, declined to release its findings, pending ongoing internal discussions about next steps.

The Seal Beach, California-based company aims to mine asteroids for valuable minerals at a lower cost and with a smaller carbon footprint than mining on Earth.

One unidentified NASA astronaut was kept overnight at a medical facility but was ultimately declared in “good health.”

The acquisition agency is procuring 160 remote modular terminals (RMTs).

NROL-167 lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1:13 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

The satellites, BlueBirds 1-5, were launched in September.