SpaceX has filed an application with the FCC to cover testing at the company’s South Texas site of what may be the its next-generation launch vehicle. | Continue reading
NASA has certified SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to launch the agency’s most important science missions, giving the agency new options that could result in lower costs. | Continue reading
China unveiled a heavy-lift launch vehicle it is developing to carry a next-generation crewed spacecraft and power human spaceflight missions beyond low Earth orbit. | Continue reading
Planetary Resources, once a high-flying company backed by billionaires with aspirations to mine asteroids, was acquired by a blockchain company Oct. 31. | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO – Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced plans Nov. 1 to offer researchers and astronauts access to its Spaceborne Computer, the supercomputer the Palo Alto, California, company sent to the International Space Station in August 2017. After a year of testing, HPE has p … | Continue reading
NASA expects to soon end efforts to contact the Opportunity Mars rover, silent for more than four months, but will continue to listen for signals. | Continue reading
Engineers have made progress correcting a faulty gyro on the Hubble Space Telescope, making NASA optimistic it can soon resume normal operations. | Continue reading
Switching from SLS to the Falcon Heavy may cause some trade-offs in designing both the Europa Clipper and the Europa Lander to fit the smaller rocket. However, the cost savings could be plowed into an Enceladus orbiter. | Continue reading
As one group of engineers works to diagnose a gyro problem that has sidelined Hubble, another is dealing with a problem with the Chandra x-ray telescope. | Continue reading
The U.S. Air Force announced on Wednesday it is awarding three contracts collectively worth about $2 billion to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and United Launch Alliance to develop launch system prototypes. | Continue reading
A startup planning to develop orbital propellant depots to assist satellite servicing ventures has raised an initial round of funding. | Continue reading
It is evident we need to examine how to build a robust space economy and infrastructure, one built to accommodate future growth. | Continue reading
The Air Force will use “rapid procurement authorities” in this program and is targeting the first next-generation OPIR launch in 2023. | Continue reading
China launched an Earth observation satellite early on Tuesday, seeing the country equaling its record for launches in a calendar year with 22. | Continue reading
As a member of the National Space Council’s users advisory group, Relativity Space CEO Tim Ellis sees himself as the voice of privately backed space startups. | Continue reading
Blue Origin expects to start flying people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle “soon” and start selling tickets for commercial flights next year. | Continue reading
Phase Four, a company developing an advanced satellite electric propulsion system, announced sales of its thrusters to NASA and Astro Digital May 24. | Continue reading
As an independent review of NASA’s JWST continues, the project is dealing with a new problem discovered in recent testing of the spacecraft. | Continue reading