NASA

By Irene Klotz
The SLC-40 upgrade has been spurred by SpaceX’s plans to launch the Starship Super Heavy from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B, but NASA had concerns.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The mission, known as USSF-52, will be the seventh for the two-vehicle fleet of Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicles.
Space

By Guy Norris
After four years of assembly and decades of study and planning, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane is ready for prelaunch environmental testing.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Bulgaria is set to become the 32nd signatory to the Artemis Accords.
Space

Follow-up imagery from the NASA Lucy mission’s recent encounter with the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh has revealed a surprise.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Nearly 2,000 cubesats have been launched in the past 20 years.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The demo would be led by the Space Technology Mission Directorate.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has rescheduled the planned launch of an International Space Station resupply mission from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9 because of a nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer leak.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Retired U. S. Navy Rear Admiral Thomas K. Mattingly II, who served as NASA’s Apollo 16 mission command pilot and went on to lead two space shuttle missions, passed away on Oct. 31
Space

By Irene Klotz
The SwRI's Alan Stern and two other paying passengers joined a Virgin Galactic crew for a short suborbital hop on Nov. 2.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Highly anticipated data from the Nov. 1, 12:54 p.m. EDT flyby will take up to a week to reach the Earth over NASA's Deep Space Network.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Two NASA astronauts executed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station’s U.S. segment on Nov. 1.
Space

By Mark Carreau
An upcoming resupply mission to the International Space Station will include payload for an effort to bioprint heart tissue.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The original launch date for IM's Nova-C lunar lander—from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket—was planned for as soon as mid-November.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is planning a payload resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Two cosmonauts spent the early portion of their spacewalk outside the ISS Oct. 25 dealing with the latest in a series of Russian segment external coolant leaks.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Scientists suspect a metal asteroid the mission will explore may be the remnant of early planet.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The QuickSounder is the first in a new generation of small, low-Earth-orbit satellites for weather and climate-change observations.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The company is developing a large spacecraft to transport, host, refuel and provide data and other services for multiple payloads.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Axiom Space is nearing completion of its Hab One pressure vessel.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is addressing two issues with its 1970s-era Voyager 1 and 2 deep space probes.
Space

By Garrett Reim
NASA intends to develop a spacecraft that will rendezvous with, refuel and relocate Landsat 7, an Earth-observation satellite, to extend its life in LEO.
Space

By Guy Norris
Carbon cycle benefits of SAF are known, but will it help reduce the formation of persistent contrails? A Boeing and NASA flight test looks to find out.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is working to address recent concerns about cost and technical challenges associated with a Mars Sample Return mission.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Berkeley Space Center, unveiled Oct. 16, could see employment for more than 6,000 researchers and developers in astronautics, quantum computing and more.
Space