NASA

By Irene Klotz
NASA will skip its February launch opportunity to send four astronauts on a flight test around the Moon to review data from a launchpad fueling test that ended early due to a hydrogen leak.
Operations & Safety

Jen Meszaros
Sabrina Li, co-founder and chief marketing officer of avionics startup Albatross.Ai, will address the APAC Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Summit in Singapore on Feb. 2
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
NASA on Feb. 2 was nearing the end of a two-day practice launch countdown for the upcoming Artemis II Moon mission, including fueling the SLS rocket.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s IMAP has begun its two-year primary mission to explore and map the boundaries of the protective bubble called the heliosphere.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has twice successfully demonstrated drives on the red planet planned by artificial intelligence.
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
Active twist rotor; vertical takeoff assist for eVTOL; propeller energy recovery; and tailored microbes for SAF production.
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz
Countdown clocks at NASA's Kennedy Space Center began ticking down toward a simulated launch of the Artemis II Moon mission.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
Axiom Space has been selected by NASA for a fifth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the company announced Jan. 30.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Blue Origin said it will stop flying its New Shepard suborbital vehicles for at least two years so it can focus company resources on supporting Moon exploration initiatives, including NASA’s Artemis program.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA is flexing plans to restore the International Space Station (ISS) to its usual seven crewmembers.
Space Exploration

By Tony Osborne
A global team of researchers has demonstrated that active twisting of helicopter main rotor blades could help reduce noise and vibration levels.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
NASA said it is standing down from a planned Jan. 31 wet dress rehearsal of its second Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
Space Exploration

By Guy Norris
The slotted transonic airfoil—studied by NASA is the 1960s to delay drag rise and enable higher cruise speeds—will debut on Otto’s Phantom 3500 business jet.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
A small transonic wing section, tucked under a NASA F-15B for flight testing, could pave the way for more efficient next-generation airliner wing designs.
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz
Blue Origin’s first lunar lander is en route to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for thermal vacuum testing ahead of launch later this year.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA plans to move up the four-person SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon mission to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
The human spaceflight community becomes sensitive this time of year, with three memorial dates on the calendar for NASA missions that ended in disasters.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall, Garrett Reim
Space maneuvers to avoid collisions are becoming more frequent.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA is assembling an anomaly review board to investigate its loss of contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
NASA is joining a White House initiative to recruit tech-savvy individuals to spend two years as government employees.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Guy Norris
NASA says the two-person flight crew of a vintage WB-57F high altitude research aircraft were unharmed after the aircraft made a gear-up landing.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Oman has become the 61st signatory of the Artemis Accords, a set of nonbinding international space agreements.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
NASA says it is re-targeting the practice launch countdown for its Artemis II lunar flyby mission to no sooner than Jan. 31, two days earlier than planned.
Operations & Safety

By Graham Warwick
P&WC advances hybrid propulsion; GE’s hybrid Passport success; Europe’s Clean Aviation launches ultraefficient regional projects; UAE orders uncrewed VTOLs.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
In response to a NASA inspector general’s audit, agency leadership has agreed to accelerate implementation of changes to its mission support services.
Budget, Policy & Regulation