NASA

By Guy Norris
KBR hopes tech and tools developed for its Iron Stallion space domain awareness monitoring platform will enable it to play a key role in Golden Dome.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
NASA is commissioning 30-day studies to assess using emerging commercial space technology to reboost the decaying orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
The testing is part of the evaluation of the spacesuit's performance for the Artemis III mission, the first post-Apollo Moon landing with astronauts, currently planned for mid-2027.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
Blue Origin will offer a variant of its Blue Ring in-space platform to serve as a Mars telecommunications orbiter for NASA.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA has initiated the second phase of a competition to recycle large quantities of trash during future long-duration human deep-space exploration missions.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
KBR Wyle will acquire support services for several human health programs managed primarily at JSC, including the Artemis lunar initiative.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
“Right now we are planning to the limits—or the resources—that were set for us in the president’s budget,” NASA's Nicola Fox says.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Crew-10 SpaceX Dragon capsule Endurance descended safely under parachute into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Aug. 9, successfully ending a 148-day mission to the ISS.
Operations & Safety

By Mark Carreau
NASA's Crew-10 Dragon capsule is planned for a splashdown and recovery in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Aug. 9.
Space Exploration

By Guy Norris
The last of three L3Harris Technologies-developed solar electric propulsors destined for the Gateway space station has been delivered for testing.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

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

Aviation Week Network Staff
Readers write about how to deice blended wing bodies, the defunding of NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program and the Golden Dome missile defense initiative’s viability.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Mark Carreau
Intuitive Machines’ (IM) CEO said Aug. 7 that his company intends to continue expanding its commercial space services to Mars.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Vivienne Machi
NASA sees its work on RDRE technology as one of several areas to contribute to the future Golden Dome for America architecture, an agency official says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
One of the two satellites experienced an issue with its solar power subsystem that has resulted in a loss of communication.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
As the International Space Station enters its last five years, the heads of the project’s primary partners met in person for the first time in seven years
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
The proposal is to use whatever propellant remains aboard NASA's Juno probe to send it into the most advantageous position to view a visiting object from another Solar System.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA has entered agreements with six aerospace companies for studies focused on the use of orbital transfer vehicles to reach various challenging orbits.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
New remarks by U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy point to the U.S. government turning its focus back to the Moon and the mission to colonize it.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s inspector general is concerned about the agency's ability to address risks to its infrastructure from climate- and weather-related events.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
The FAA has released the long-awaited draft rule governing the operation of drones beyond visual line of sight of the operator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Reliable Robotics has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to jointly study the integration of large, UAS into the National Airspace System.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
As expanding wind tunnel test capability emerges in China, NASA prepares to mothball similar test sites under pressure from shrinking budgets.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Less flight research, fewer wind tunnels and a smaller workforce are ahead for NASA aeronautics.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Joby-L3Harris hybrid eVTOL; low-boom X-59 taxis; Skydweller three-day flight; collaborative autonomy framework.
Emerging Technologies