NASA

By Irene Klotz
After a decade in development, SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy transport reaches orbit for a test run.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Dragon spacecraft conducted a successful autonomous docking to the U.S. segment of the seven-person International Space Station on Oct. 1.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA and SpaceX are proceeding with plans for a no-earlier-than Oct. 1 launch of the Crew-13 Dragon mission.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
The Export-Import Bank of the United States has approved Astranis Space Technologies for a $468 million credit facility to fund the expansion of its domestic satellite production.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Starliner stumbled during its debut uncrewed flight test in December 2019 and was unable to reach the ISS.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Momentus, Inc., has reported the successful completion of a rendezvous and proximity operations demonstration.
Satellites

By Steve Trimble
Nearly 27 years after the final Blackbird flight, NASA quietly launched a project last summer to return an SR-71A to flight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
More than two years after the troubled crewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi, NASA and Boeing aim to return the spacecraft to flight with an uncrewed cargo run to the ISS in late December or January.
Space Exploration

Aviation Week Staff
NASA Names Four SpaceX Crew-14 Dragon Fliers
Aerospace_Daily_departments

By Irene Klotz
Katalyst Space’s first robotic servicing satellite reentered the atmosphere Sept. 25.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA has named four crewmembers assigned to the International Space Station’s Expedition 75/76 operations.
Space Exploration

By Steve Trimble, Graham Warwick, Robert Wall
A special Lockheed SR-71A has gone missing after being displayed in front of a NASA facility for more than 26 years. Meanwhile, the NASA administrator is dropping hints that a new X-plane is in the works that happens to look a lot like a Blackbird. What's going on here?
Check 6

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

By Steve Trimble
NASA has quietly removed a Lockheed SR-71A from public display.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Voyager Technologies and Exobiosphere have announced two additional research campaigns aboard the International Space Station.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Participants in NASA’s transition of activities on the International Space Station to multiple commercial successors before a planned ISS deorbit in 2030 are acknowledging the effort’s uncertainties.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
Hoping to fill a gap between radio wave and infrared observations of the universe, NASA selected the Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics, or PRIMA, to proceed with development.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
ASA has awarded SpaceX a $946 million Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract extension for three additional missions to the International Space Station.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
A NASA inspector general’s evaluation of the agency’s information security program for fiscal 2026 rated it unchanged over the last five years and one level below what the Office of Management and Budget considers effective.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX prepares Starship’s first orbital attempt, advancing reusable launch technology and lunar ambitions.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA and SpaceX are looking to early October to launch the delayed Crew-13 Dragon mission to the seven-person International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
NASA has halted work on the Mars Telecommunications Network contract following a bidder’s protest over the award to Blue Origin.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Garrett Reim
The debris problem is likely to worsen as new reusable launch vehicles from China and the U.S. loft hundreds of thousands of spacecraft into orbit.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
Rocket Lab is challenging NASA’s award of the Mars Telecommunications Network program to Blue Origin, arguing the agency’s source selection was faulty.
Space Exploration

By Guy Norris
Hypersonic test specialist Stratolaunch has begun a six-month study with NASA into the development of a next-generation, air-breathing version of its Mach 5 Talon-A test vehicle.
Emerging Technologies