The upgraded Vega-C, a beefed-up and more flexible version of the Vega light launcher, made its first flight July 13 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
The CEO of Roscosmos State Space Corp. has vowed to ban cosmonauts from working with the European Robotic Arm installed on Russia’s new Nauka science module on the International Space Station.
The NASA- and Northrop Grumman-developed observatory is “probably the most significant engineering feat of our time,” Northrop CEO Kathy Warden tells Aviation Week.
NASA and its partners promise there will be much more to come from the just-commissioned James Webb Space Telescope, following the release of its first five science images on July 12.
Aerospace company Thales Group, mobile phone chip maker Qualcomm Technologies and telecommunications company Ericsson plan to test and validate low Earth orbit satellite-based 5G network technologies for mobile phones.
President Biden unveiled the first image marking the start of the James Webb Space Telescope’s long-anticipated initial science campaign on July 11 that featured a stirring, full-color view of the now-vast universe from its earliest and not previously witnessed era.
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Space Systems a $22.1 million contract for the Rapid On-orbit Space Technology Evaluation Ring (Rooster), a ridesharing spacecraft that will be used to demonstrate on-orbit refueling technology and other prototypes.
As NASA invites bids to build and fly its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, technology editor Graham Warwick and senior editor Guy Norris hear how this aircraft will differ from the agency’s prior X-planes. They talked to Rich Wahls, NASA’s newly appointed Sustainable Flight National Partnership mission integration manager at the AIAA Aviation 2022 conference in Chicago.
The Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Hybrid Space Architecture program has issued several contracts to companies to develop and demonstrate a space-based network architecture for communications across commercial and government satellites in multiple orbits.
Stellar Solutions, a global aerospace and systems engineering services firm, has unveiled Stellar Ventures, a woman-led venture capital firm investing in the next generation of space entrepreneurs, the company said July 7.
A Minotaur II+ rocket, the first launch test supporting the development of the Mk21A re-entry vehicle, exploded shortly after launch late July 6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Virgin Galactic has signed an agreement to partner with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two new White Knight Two jets to carry its air-launched passenger suborbital spaceships.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is testing its experimental receivers for the upcoming Navigation Technology Satellite-3 as it is integrating the satellite ahead of its planned launch next year.
The Singaporean Defense Ministry has played down the possibility of setting up a space division within its military in the near future, but nevertheless is closely studying the development of novel satellite technology, especially in the field of small to nano satellites.
