Space

By Michael Bruno, Steve Trimble
The deal adds one of the U.S. government’s most important propulsion, space and missile system suppliers to industry’s self-titled trusted disruptor.
Defense

By Garrett Reim
Telesat of Ottawa has finished testing its Phase 1 low-Earth-orbit demonstration satellite.
Advanced Air Mobility

Roscosmos Space Corp. has suggested that a micrometeorite may have caused the coolant leak on the Russian Soyuz MS-22 spaceship.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Vice President Kamala Harris has named 29 people to join the U.S. National Space Council's Users Advisory Group.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
The European Space Agency has solidified its master plan for three demonstration programs aiming at launcher reusability.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Boston-based Advent, which bought Britain’s Cobham and Ultra Electronics in recent years, said Maxar is a high-quality known supplier of orbital assets.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The Air Force Research Laboratory has contracted with Pacific Defense to develop a modular, open architecture sensor to monitor cislunar space.
Space

By Mark Carreau
A planned spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station was delayed due to a Soyuz leak.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
U.S. Space Forces Korea is the Space Force's first command outside of the United States.
Space

By Mark Carreau
In a public “town hall,” NASA’s top administrators praised the agency’s workforce for achieving a range of milestones in 2022.
Space

By Guy Norris
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) 747SP airborne telescope has been retired to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Arizona.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Quantum Space has raised $15 million to develop a network of “Scout” spacecraft throughout cislunar space.
Commercial Space

Aviation Week Staff
Consulting giant Accenture’s venture capital arm has signed a strategic deal with space-based Earth data upstart Planet Labs.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Unprecedented high-altitude weather triggered a series of events which led to the loss of Airbus’ Zephyr high-altitude pseudo satellite.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander into space on Dec. 11 from Cape Canaveral.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
The 2020s will be the decade of the satellite, according to a new Euroconsult forecast.
Space

By Mark Carreau
With NASA’s Artemis I Orion spacecraft back on Earth, the space agency can began to look ahead with a sharper focus to Artemis II.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The 25-day, uncrewed Artemis I mission ended exactly 50 years to the day after the Apollo 17 Moon landing.
Space

Aviation Week Staff
Roscosmos Space Corp. has completed its launch campaign in 2022, a source from the Russian space industry tells Aerospace DAILY.
Space

By Mark Carreau
"We are wrapping this mission up,” says Mike Sarafin, NASA’s Artemis I mission manager, told the agency’s final planned pre-return news briefing.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The U.S. space agency is collecting data from the Orion capsule as it prepares to return to Earth after 25 days in space.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Garrett Reim
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for ways to quickly deliver spacecraft beyond geosynchronous orbit.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has added two samples of windblown broken rock and dust, also known as regolith, to its growing collection of rock core samples.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Virgin Orbit had been eyeing a launch window starting Dec. 14 for its first UK flight of LauncherOne.
Commercial Space