Space

Abu Dhabi-based Marlan Space has teamed up with U.S. startup Loft Orbital to establish Orbitworks, a satellite manufacturer that will focus on the Middle East market, reports Matthew Fulco.

SpaceX has reset the launch of the privately funded Polaris Dawn mission for Aug. 28 to troubleshoot a helium leak in a quick-disconnect umbilical on the ground side of the Falcon 9 launch system.

New technologies are leveraging the advantages of GEO.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander, slated to lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, will carry 10 scientific instruments and tech demonstrations to the Moon.

U.S. Space Command's Gen. Stephen Whiting supports plans by the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command to increase its space personnel and space control.

While the other eight engines ignited as planned, the fire in the ninth engine was “really difficult to contain.”

Orbitworks will be the first company in the UAE to manufacture commercial low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations.

Two NASA astronauts conducting a flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will return to Earth in February aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon.

The trilateral n Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability program involves the standup of a network of ground-based radars by the end of the decade.

The company has resolved a problem that impaired operation of one of the three parachutes on the last flight of its New Shepard suborbital spacecraft.

The company plans to launch the first of its forestry monitoring spacecraft in 2025 after supplier issues delayed the mission from this year.

Some co-founders at new space tech startups are trying to codify innovation.

The method is Elon Musk’s modern take on Aristotle’s “First Principles."

The newcomers join 11 companies selected in 2022 for the VADR program.

NASA has replaced its longtime Commercial Space Division chief Phil McAlister, who oversaw the agency’s Commercial Crew and other programs.

A multistep solicitation seeks proposals from academia, industry and government agencies, for 2-3 awards valued at up to $4 million for health concerns.

Airbus is dispatching the third European Service Module (ESM-3) to the U.S. for eventual use on NASA’s mission to return humans to the moon.

In addition to venturing outside the capsule, the Jared Isaacman-backed Polaris Dawn mission aims to break the 1966 altitude record.

Newly released details of recent Chinese spacecraft maneuvers tracked by U.S.-based observers show increasing capability in key areas.

The first U.S. military payload to be hosted aboard an international partner’s spacecraft is now in orbit.

NASA is seeking input to identify the near-term capabilities and assets necessary to achieve the Moon-to-Mars architecture’s objectives.

The SpaceX charter flight includes depressurizing their Dragon spacecraft to test the company’s first extravehicular activity spacesuits.

The company signed a contract with the NATO Communications and Information Agency to bolster the Allied Persistent Surveillance from Space initiative.

NASA has released a draft solicitation to advance efforts to address two gaps in the lunar portion of the agency's evolving Moon to Mars Architecture.

The South Korean National Defense Ministry says the first of its reconnaissance satellites has passed in-orbit testing and is now operational.