NASA

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s 28th SpaceX-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission spacecraft departed the International Space Station June 29.
Space

By Brian Everstine, Irene Klotz
Building a space taxi for NASA turned out to be a whole lot harder than Boeing imagined.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The company has spent the last three years investing in in-space servicing, propulsion and robotic technology to develop a prototype AMU.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The iROSAs, the seventh and eighth overall, will be used to upgrade solar power generation aboard the ISS.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Euclid, planned for an early July launch, will be joined by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope by May 2027.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Orbital space debris experts are looking into potential remediation options.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The program announced its decision on June 23, disclosing that it had discovered “failure modes” that would take too long to fix.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson marked the first day of summer by cutting the ribbon on a new Earth Information Center.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson marked the first day of summer by cutting the ribbon on a new Earth Information Center.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Boeing's defense and space CEO says ahead of the Paris Air Show that it is "absolutely" committed to the CST-100 Starliner crewed capsule, despite new problems.
Space

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Wright Electric has produced 1 megawatt of shaft power in tests of an electric motor-generator under development to power commercial aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA has entered no exchange of funds Space Act Agreement partnerships with seven companies that are intended to advance future human spaceflight objectives.
Space

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
Calhoun wants new types that delivers in the neighborhood a 20-30% improvement over today’s airplanes.
Paris Air Show

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

By Garrett Reim
Ispace of Japan has named Ronald Garan as the CEO of its subsidiary ispace technologies U.S.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Two NASA astronauts installed a sixth and final planned Roll Out Solar Array (iROSA) on the long solar power truss of the ISS during a June 15 spacewalk.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force has officially begun its search for a company to provide its future space range operations.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Flight of the NASA X-57 Maxwell electric aircraft is in doubt as the program concludes at the end of September and is dealing with another technical problem.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
The research findings back the premise that most, if not all, Earth water originated through asteroid collisions during the Solar System’s planet-forming era.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Ultimately, heritage hardware, not new technology, is the cause.
Space

By Guy Norris
NASA and Boeing hope the X-66A Sustainable Flight Demonstrator paves the way for more efficient commercial airliner configurations.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Tthe X-66A is the first in the experimental aircraft series specifically focused on achieving the goal of net-zero aviation greenhouse gas emissions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg installed a fifth ISS Roll Out Solar Array on the International Space Station’s lengthy solar power truss.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy wants to prepare new materials for hypersonic thermal protection systems that are cheaper and easier to build than carbon-carbon.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Astronauts will be exploring the lunar south pole, which promises to yield discoveries about how the Solar System formed.
Space