Space

Less than a day after releasing budget plans to cut NASA spending 24%, the White House announced that a replacement to head the agency will be announced soon.

A modest hike in NASA’s budget to push human space exploration into deep space would be offset by massive cuts in the rest of the agency’s budget.

For the third time, the FAA will require SpaceX to complete a mishap investigation prior to resuming launches of its Starship-Super Heavy system.

SpaceX successfully launched the eighth of 10 GPS III satellites for the U.S. Space Force May 30 at 1:37 p.m. EDT on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida.

EnduroSat of Sophia, Bulgaria, has raised €43 million ($48.8 million) from venture capital financiers to increase its satellite production to 60 per month.

South Korea’s national space agency, KASA, is calling for the country to put more emphasis on critical technology developments.

Finland says it is spearheading an EU effort to apply quantum technology to make PNT programs more jam-resistant and to enhance missile warning.

On Moscow’s new space agenda, private enterprises and reusable launchers are in, and big satellites are out.

Elon Musk is promising to pick up the pace of Starship flight tests as SpaceX pursues key goals for program.

Northrop Grumman is adding $50 million to a joint project with Firefly Aerospace to design, own and operate a new Delta II-class medium-lift launch vehicle.

Spacecraft manufacturer Apex has developed a new satellite bus that the company says could be used as a space-based interceptor platform.

The European Space Agency has opened its European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Center in Villigen, Switzerland.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is preparing to launch Amazon’s second batch of Kuiper broadband satellites as early as June 13.

NASA says it has remedied a drop in the pressure of the electric propulsion system fuel line aboard the Psyche spacecraft.

Editors share their impressions of an in-depth conversation with Kelly Ortberg after the Boeing CEO spoke exclusively with Aviation Week.

Beijing Sepoch Technology completed the verification test of its Hiker-1, China’s first reusable rocket using liquid oxygen-methane propulsion.

Blue Origin plans to attempt to land its MK1 on the Moon this year, and if successful, it would become the largest vehicle to touch down on the Moon's surface.

The U.S. military and intelligence communities are dividing up responsibilities for remote-sensing data acquisition.

China has launched its Tianwen-2 probe on a more than two-year mission to rendezvous with an asteroid and return samples to Earth.

With the Trump administration looking to hit NASA with significant funding cuts, Northrop is now saying it will likely work less with the agency.

Lockheed Martin reports that the Orion capsule assigned to Artemis III has had its computers powered on and tested for the first time.

Portal Space Systems promises the rapid maneuverability of nuclear propulsion, but using thermal energy collected from the Sun.

Leonardo is starting to define program plans for a 20-satellite low-Earth-orbit constellation in one of the first big efforts for its new space division.

Japanese launcher-maker Space One says it has secured a contract to launch a Japanese Defense Ministry Earth-observation satellite.

The German government indicates there may be hope to salvage two OHB-built synthetic aperture radars that never became operational due to technical problems.