Space

Maiaspace on Sept. 25 said the decision allows it to focus on starting commercial operations from the site in 2026.

NASA’s milestone-setting TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) mission has come to a close.

The Texas legislature has appropriated $150 million in grants for selected Space Exploration and Aeronautics Research Fund (SEARF) grants.

In some emerging use cases in geostationary Earth orbit, conventional satellites weighing several metric tons would be too expensive.

Launch of the next U.S. crew transport to the International Space Station is being delayed until no earlier than Sept. 28 due to an expected large hurricane.

The demonstration saw Northrop Grumman’s hybrid satcom terminal connect with a ViaSat-3 F1 satellite in Geosynchronous orbit at Ka frequencies.

The threats to space systems from directed energy weapons is going to grow, the head of U.S. Space Command warns.

Radian Aerospace of Seattle has unveiled the first prototype of its single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane.

Chinese and Russia anti-satellite capabilities are driving Western militaries to pursue better situational awareness and countermeasures.

Financier and Mission Commander Jared Isaacman is eyeing a more ambitious spacewalk for his next flight.

Released Sept. 24, the 27-page audit makes five recommendations.

The agreement was announced Sept. 24 at the Burjeel Institute for Global Health in New York.

The UK’s military space efforts are not matching the change in the threat and more may need to happen, a Royal Air Force official says.

The German Space Command is exploring the possibility of launching an active in-orbit space defense project not unlike what France is pursuing.

The UK Defense Ministry wants to experiment with deployable Enhanced Long-Range Navigation (eLoran) signals.

The launch is slated to take place on a SpaceX Falcon 9X in October 2025, BAE Systems’ Director of Space Doug Liddle says.

EDGE has lauched its new space company, ‘FADA’, a name derived from the Arabic word for space.

Global Aerospace Summit is set to drive greater sustainability, youth engagement, and innovation across the industry.

The static test fire at Cape Canaveral SFS marked Blue Origin’s first fueling of a New Glenn rocket stage with flight propellants, and the first engine burn of an integrated flight stage.

The Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve is a peacetime effort to develop capacity that the U.S. military can tap during times of conflict or crisis.

The creation of Fada follows the establishment of UAE Space Agency’s strategic partnership with Edge in November 2023.

Chinese space launcher startup Deep Blue Aerospace suffered a landing failure in the latest test of its Nebula-1 when the engine cut off prematurely.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-25 crew transport capsule descended into Kazakhstan early Sept. 23, returning two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut back to Earth .

The praise demonstrates that startups are eagerly awaiting the new form of competition in Europe.

The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine panel also acknowledged the mission’s extreme challenges and received initial comments.