NASA

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

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

By Mark Carreau
Efforts to expand U.S. commercial space have just touched down in a new destination—big box stores.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Crew-11's three astronauts and a cosmonaut were welcomed aboard the ISS by the Expedition 73 crew. NASA budget cuts could shorten their planned six-month mission.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
A multinational, four-member crew lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Aug. 1 for a 15-hr. ride to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Guy Norris
Advocates for more scientific rigor in studying unidentified anomalous phenomena have renewed calls for wider data collection and proliferated sensor systems.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
A NASA Inspector General’s audit is calling on the agency to close gaps in its Standing Review Board process for making recommendations to senior leadership.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
An ill-timed sea breeze pushed a cumulus cloud too close to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on July 31.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Michigan’s air mobility testbed; simulating transonic wings; Europe prepares for eVTOLs; and first electric-aircraft propeller.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million task orde for the delivery of two microrovers and three scientific payloads to the lunar south pole in 2029.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
The first-ever NASA-India Space Research Organization joint Earth science mission successfully launched early July 30.
Space Exploration

By Mark Carreau
Crowdsourcer HeroX and NASA are holding an upcoming “Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge."
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
A U.S. court on July 21 denied a motion to dismiss a stockholder suit challenging Archer’s $1.7 billion 2021 merger with Atlas Crest Investments.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
Satellite images of China’s vast wind-tunnel complex suggest the existence of a nearly complete cryogenic facility able to test large transonic transport aircraft while NASA is preparing to mothball several sites because of budget issues.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick, Guy Norris, Garrett Reim
Editors share what they heard at AIAA's showcase events in Las Vegas and their concerns about what the NASA cuts could mean for U.S. competitiveness in commercial aviation and space.
Check 6

By Mark Carreau
Houston-based Barrios Technology, LLC has been awarded a $450 million contract to provide technical integration services for NASA’s human spaceflight programs.
Space Exploration