Space

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

By Mark Carreau
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 .
Operations & Safety

By Joe Anselmo, Irene Klotz, Guy Norris
SpaceX’s Starship booster “catch” at the launchpad wowed the space world, but big hurdles remain to launching humans to Mars in 2028.
Check 6

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

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

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

By Vivienne Machi
The service is pursuing an “allied by design” approach that includes a new push for space-related military sales.
Budget, Policy & Operations

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

By Vivienne Machi
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.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The Office released the BALISTA query in March 2024.
Satellites

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

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

By Chen Chuanren
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.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
From project financing to launcher and exploration initiatives, the region is devising an agenda to stay in the global space race.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
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.
Space Exploration

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