China to launch "Earth 2.0" exoplanet observatory in 2028. | Continue reading
Amazon’s Project Kuiper will install DoD-compliant laser communications terminals on its internet satellites so they can transfer data from remote-sensing satellites directly into the military’s mesh network in low Earth orbit. | Continue reading
Companies in the space domain awareness market are eager to work with the Space Force but need a clearer picture of future demand | Continue reading
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha launch vehicle reached orbit on its second launch Oct. 1, more than a year after the vehicle’s first launch failed. | Continue reading
China’s human spaceflight agency has selected a new group of 18 reserve astronauts to participate in the country’s upcoming space station project. | Continue reading
China is looking to build partnerships for its upcoming missions to the moon and deep ventures into the solar system, while omitting mention of main partner Russia. | Continue reading
Anduril, Aalyria, Atlas Space and Enveil won contracts for the Defense Innovation Unit's hybrid space architecture program | Continue reading
China sent a highly-classified reusable experimental spacecraft into orbit Thursday, two years after a similarly clandestine mission. | Continue reading
NASA is preparing to award a contract to a Boeing-Northrop Grumman joint venture for Space Launch System missions that could run through the mid-2030s. | Continue reading
NASA picked SpaceX to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy, but at a price significantly higher than previous agency contracts. | Continue reading
China added a new experiment module to its space station Sunday, following a high-profile launch from the country’s coastal spaceport. | Continue reading
The Senate is moving forward with a revised version of a NASA authorization bill that authorizes the Artemis lunar exploration effort and extends the ISS. | Continue reading
A NASA-funded lunar cubesat, CAPSTONE, is on its way to the moon July 4 after a series of burns by a Rocket Lab transfer stage. | Continue reading
The two companies NASA selected earlier this month to develop spacesuits were the only companies to bid on the project, according to agency documents. | Continue reading
NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission will not launch this year because there’s not enough time to complete software testing before its launch window closes. | Continue reading
SpaceX warned June 21 that its Starlink broadband network would become unusable for most Americans if a proposal to use the 12 GHz band for terrestrial 5G is approved. | Continue reading
A new mobile launch platform that Bechtel is building for NASA will cost up to four times as much as originally planned, a NASA audit concluded. | Continue reading
China’s Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and ESA joint mission. | Continue reading
Belgian startup Aerospacelab announced plans June 14 to establish a new satellite "megafactory” large enough to produce 500 satellites annually. | Continue reading
The National Reconnaissance Office announced May 25 it awarded BlackSky, Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs 10-year contracts to provide satellite imagery for U.S. intelligence, defense and federal civil agencies. | Continue reading
Space Systems Command is trying to figure out how to exploit traditional and new types of commercial space data | Continue reading
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on May 4 issued a solicitation for proposals for the next phase of a demonstration of a nuclear powered spacecraft. | Continue reading
China plans to set up a constellation around the moon to provide communication and navigation services for future complex operations on the lunar surface. | Continue reading
Classified Chinese Shiyan-10 has been tracked operating in a specialized orbit, six months after an anomaly during launch appeared to leave it stranded in an initial transfer orbit. | Continue reading
NASA cut short a third attempt to load propellants onto the Space Launch System for a countdown rehearsal April 14 after encountering several problems. | Continue reading
The United States and India have agreed to cooperate on space situational awareness, a deal that the U.S. Department of Defense said would “lay the groundwork for more advanced cooperation in space.” | Continue reading
A shortage of Ukrainian Antonov aircraft raises the prospect of more delays for satellite projects already bogged down by supply chain issues. | Continue reading
In the largest commercial launch deal ever, Amazon is purchasing up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance to deploy most of its 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper broadband megaconstellation | Continue reading
The FAA has again delayed completion of an environmental assessment for orbital launches of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle from Texas. | Continue reading
House and Senate appropriators completed work March 9 on an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2022 that would give NASA a little more than $24 billion. | Continue reading
Slingshot Aerospace, a company that develops technologies for space situational awareness, announced March 10 it has raised $25 million in Series A-1 funds. | Continue reading
The Space Development Agency announced Feb. 28 it awarded Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and York Space Systems contracts worth nearly $1.8 billion to produce 126 satellites for a global communications network in low Earth orbit. | Continue reading
ESA will establish a committee, including those outside the industry, to develop options for a European human space exploration program. | Continue reading
The Space Force announced Jan. 26 it has closed down the last remaining piece of the troubled Joint Mission System (JMS). | Continue reading
China has released a white paper outlining the centrality of space to the country’s “overall national strategy” as well as major plans for the years ahead. | Continue reading
The number of 3D-printed parts on board satellites is growing amid advances in additive manufacturing. But how close is the industry to 3D printing entire satellites? | Continue reading
China’s Shijian-21 space debris mitigation satellite has docked with a defunct Chinese satellite to drastically alter its geostationary orbit, demonstrating capabilities only previously exhibited by the United States. | Continue reading
Engineers have identified the likely reason one of two solar arrays on NASA’s Lucy asteroid mission failed to latch in place after launch. | Continue reading
Celestis, a company that provides space memorial services, will launch a Star Trek tribute mission on the first flight of United Launch Alliance’s new rocket Vulcan Centaur, ULA announced Jan. 26. | Continue reading
A malfunctioning computer in one of the four main engines of the Space Launch System will delay that vehicle’s first launch to no earlier than March. | Continue reading
A node module billed as the final Russian element of the International Space Station docked with the station Nov. 26. | Continue reading
Astroscale announced Nov. 25 that it raised $109 million to allow it to accelerate plans for active debris removal and satellite servicing. | Continue reading
HELSINKI — China launched its third Gaofen-11 reconnaissance satellite Nov. 19, adding to a set of classified satellites with an optical resolution which | Continue reading
Rocket Lab says it’s ready to move to the next step in its efforts to recover and reuse Electron first stages by attempting to catch a booster in midair. | Continue reading
Cognitive Space raised $4 million in seed funding for its artificial intelligence-based software designed to manage constellations of imaging satellites. | Continue reading
NASA leadership has formally given up on the goal of returning humans to the moon by 2024, pushing back a landing to at least 2025. | Continue reading
Northrop Grumman in 2024 plans to launch a new servicing vehicle equipped with a robotic arm that will install propulsion jet packs on dying satellites. | Continue reading
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is preparing unclassified documents to share its science and technology priorities with industry and academia, John Beieler, ODNI science and technology director. | Continue reading