SpaceX plans to launch regular Falcon 9 rideshare missions starting in March and won’t delay launches for tardy customers, a company executive said Oct. 8. | Continue reading
China will launch its Long March 5 rocket late this year, with success required for the country's to proceed with its major space ambitions. | Continue reading
Some space companies say their greatest hiring difficulty today is recruiting enough software engineers to work on their programs. | Continue reading
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A test flight in Alaska of a small launch vehicle by a stealthy startup company ended in failure in late November, the FAA has revealed. | Continue reading
ESA needs to succeed with two upcoming parachute tests or will see the ExoMars 2020 landing mission slip to 2022. | Continue reading
The first module for China’s planned space station has passed a final review, but the project continues to suffer launch vehicle-related delays. | Continue reading
India's bid to become the fourth country to land on the moon ended with loss of contact with the Chandrayaan-2 mission lander during the final stages of the Sept. 6 landing attempt. | Continue reading
NASA has updated a draft solicitation for crewed lunar landers, adjusting details about its plans to meet the goal of landing humans on the moon by 2024. | Continue reading
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In a move that took most in the space industry by surprise, NASA has reassigned two top officials in its exploration program, including Bill Gerstenmaier. | Continue reading
The fifteenth launch of a European Vega rocket ended in failure July 10, resulting in the loss of an imaging satellite for the United Arab Emirates. | Continue reading
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Three of the 60 satellites SpaceX launched last month to begin its broadband megaconstellation have lost contact with ground control teams, a SpaceX spokesperson said June 28. | Continue reading
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Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX’s vice president of commercial sales, said the company is in talks with prospective customers for the first commercial launch of that system roughly two years from now. | Continue reading
Despite complaints by astronomers, legal experts say there is little they can do under federal law to halt the deployment of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. | Continue reading
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The European Space Agency gave contracts to ArianeGroup and MT Aerospace on May 14 to develop a prototype upper stage that could lead to an advanced carbon-composite upgrade for the Ariane 6 rocket. | Continue reading
When Swedish broadband service provider Ovzon began shopping around for a small communications satellite that would work in geostationary orbit, the designs that satellite manufacturers trotted out weren’t exactly “small.” | Continue reading
Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, said the launch will carry “dozens of satellites,” adding more prototypes to the two currently in low Earth orbit. | Continue reading
Launch firm iSpace in early June will attempt to become the first Chinese private company to place a satellite in orbit, following failed launches by two competitors. | Continue reading
A SpaceX executive May 3 provided new details about, but no cause of, an incident that destroyed a Crew Dragon spacecraft during a ground test last month. | Continue reading
Fleet operator Intelsat said its first high throughput satellite, Intelsat-29e, is a “total loss” after attempts to save the malfunctioning satellite proved unsuccessful. | Continue reading
The center core of the Falcon Heavy rocket that launched April 11 fell over after landing in rough seas, but SpaceX said it won’t affect upcoming launches. | Continue reading
SpaceIL announced April 4 that its Beresheet spacecraft has entered orbit around the moon, setting the stage for a landing attempt in a week. | Continue reading
Perhaps the strongest sign to date that the space industry is in some kind of bubble is the creation of Hypergiant Galactic Systems. | Continue reading
Even before the launch, NASA officials said there was already work identified before the Demo-1 flight that needed to get done before the agency would consider flying astronauts on board. | Continue reading
Blue Origin has studied repurposing upper stages of its future New Glenn launch vehicle to serve as habitats or for other applications. | Continue reading
The Space Development Agency officially came into existence last week and already is causing a stir. | Continue reading
The agreement, for an unspecified number of launches and satellites, makes Telesat the fifth customer to sign up to use the reusable launcher, which is slated for a maiden flight in 2021. | Continue reading
The main contractor for the Chinese space program is planning more than 30 launches in 2019, with major missions including the crucial return-to-flight of the heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket in July. | Continue reading
NASA announced Jan. 22 that it is replacing an astronaut who was scheduled to fly on a commercial crew test flight later this year because of a medical issue. | Continue reading
Stratolaunch, founded by the late Paul Allen, said Jan. 18 that it is ending work on a launch vehicle that would be flown on the company’s giant aircraft. | Continue reading
Astranis, a startup designing small geostationary satellites for internet connectivity, has signed an Alaskan telecommunications provider as its first customer. | Continue reading
NASA confirmed Jan. 10 that an uncrewed test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft will now take place no sooner than February, | Continue reading
The team running NASA’s New Horizons mission is already looking ahead to future extended missions that could include another flyby of a Kuiper Belt object. | Continue reading
The company said that while efforts are continuing to restore the spacecraft, "Maxar believes that WorldView-4 will likely not be recoverable and will no longer produce usable imagery." | Continue reading
Sierra Nevada Corp. has won NASA approval to begin full-scale production of its Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft with first flight in about two years. | Continue reading
NASA’s plans to return humans to the surface of the moon within 10 years got a chilly reception from an advisory group Nov. 15. | Continue reading
SpaceX launched the U.S. Air Force’s newest global positioning system satellite Dec. 23 on a Falcon 9 rocket, completing the company’s 21st and final launch of the year. | Continue reading
“We’ve launched our last satellite,” John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications, said during a presentation to analysts. | Continue reading
Virgin Galactic is planning the next test flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle as soon as Dec. 13, a flight that could be the first to reach space. | Continue reading
A startup company with plans to develop orbiting propellant depots will fly an experiment to the space station next month to test some key technologies. | Continue reading