Space

Leading the seed funding round was MetaVC Partners with participation from Entrada Ventures and Blue Collective.

NASA declined to say what its response to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management was or will be.

A Falcon 9 Launch of the $1.6 billion mission from Cape Canaveral is currently planned for no earlier than September of 2027.

It would mark the first orbital flight of an Australian-made rocket.

Arianespace has scrubbed the planned launch of its first Ariane 6 mission which was scheduled for Feb. 26.

The first of the new-production RS-25s was installed on the Fred Haise Test Stand at Stennis on Feb. 18.

“It is time to begin preparations for deorbiting the @Space_Station,” Musk wrote on his social media site X on Feb. 20.

Launch from Launch Site One near Van Horn in West Texas is timed for a window that opens at 10:30 a.m. EST, Blue Origin announced Feb. 21.

ESA, in its latest update, puts the probably of impact at 0.16%.

German launch vehicle startup Isar Aerospace says it is ready for the inaugural launch of its Spectrum rocket once it has secured its launch operator license.

As the X-37B graces the cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine, editors discuss the unique characteristics of the spaceplane and what its up to as it orbits Earth.

The military spaceplane is logging hundreds of days on orbit to collect data for future development.

The airframer faces challenges on several fronts in leaving stubborn problems in its wake this year.

The company aims to mine asteroids for water to be used directly as fuel, or broken down into hydrogen and oxygen, which also could be used as fuel.

IM’s first Nova-C lander, named Odysseus, touched down near the lunar south pole’s Malapert A crater on Feb. 22, 2024.

The RFI for Space Weather Geostationary Series (SW GEO) Spacecraft was issued on Feb. 18.

Free most recently served as a senior advisor to the administrator.

India has established a $58 million state-backed fund for space startups, the latest sign of its determination to become a major player in commercial space.

PLD Space says it has agreed to use the Etlaq spaceport in Oman for flights of its Miura launch vehicle family.

A system for France and Italy to share information and tasking across militaries regarding their Earth-observation capabilities has entered service.

The Airbus CEO says talks with Leonardo and Thales to fix an overcapacity problem in European satellite development and production could lead to creating a combined entity modeled on missile-maker MBDA.

Former small-satellite launch company ABL Space Systems has rebranded to Long Wall as part of a wider transformation to focus on missile defense.

New spins on NASA-developed heat shield technologies paved the way for an era of reusable space vehicles.

The company will use the facility to support the design, development and production of new space superiority solutions and expand its classified operations.

The company’s Hibiscus thermal infrared camera has a 3-m resolution, SuperSharp said.