SpaceX

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX has hot fired the engines of its next Super Heavy booster as it prepared for a second flight test of an integrated Starship-Super Heavy vehicle.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA has reassigned astronaut Jeannette Epps, who has been awaiting a spaceflight since joining the astronaut corps in 2009, to the SpaceX Crew-8 mission.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Impulse Space plans two follow-on missions in 2024 after its inaugural LEO Express 1 mission before year’s end.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Seven missions have been set aside for the third-place winner.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
Axiom, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have all flown privately paying passengers into orbital and suborbital space from the U.S.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The foursome has trained for a more than six-month mission with a science and technology agenda that includes nearly 160 projects.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (Roman) could push open the door to the discovery of vast numbers of planets.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Ukraine has depended on Starlink for expansive battlefield communication.
Commercial Space

Readers write about politics and free speech in Feedback, aspiring aerospace industry employees, the U.S. F-22 successor and engine dust problems.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

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

By Mark Carreau
The CJS portion of the 2024 spending legislation that includes NASA and which was marked up by the full committee passed by a bipartisan 28-1 vote.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s return to the Moon—and future human exploration initiatives—rely on private sector partnerships.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The Defense Innovation Unit wants ideas on how to transport military cargo around the Earth via rockets, as well as ways to store military payloads in orbit.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The probe will conduct a six-year survey to answer questions about dark matter, dark energy and what the universe is made of.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The splashdown occurred as planned at 10:30 a.m. EDT off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.
Space

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

By Irene Klotz, Michael Bruno
Three months after confirming it was exploring a merger with Intelsat, Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES said June 22 that the talks are off.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Astronauts and cosmonauts from four countries are to launch to the ISS in mid-August aboard SpaceX’s seventh NASA-contracted Crew Dragon mission.
Space

By Irene Klotz
After adjusting for distance, SpaceX’s new Generation V2 Mini Starlink satellites are 12 times less luminous than previous generation Starlink spacecraft.
Commercial Space

Readers write about JetZero’s blended wingbody, SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy launch failure and airliner engine nacelles. Plus: Behind the Scenes at Boeing.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Garrett Reim
Spire Global launched a pair of 6U cubesats with laser communications payloads aboard the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission on June 12.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Ariane 6 delays and problems with Vega C leave European launch industry mostly grounded.
Paris Air Show

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