The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s upgraded Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T—the third in the GOES-R series of weather observation and environmental monitoring spacecraft—is undergoing preparations for a March 1 launch.

The UK is moving to bolster its burgeoning sustainable space sector with government funding for projects to advance capabilities ranging from situational awareness to debris removal.

A team including former NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk has unveiled a new business venture to develop and operate a reconfigurable robotic outpost and space tug in cislunar space, with an eye on providing payload hosting, communications, in-space transportation, remote sensing and other services to commercial and government customers, including the Defense Department.

Boeing says successful tests of an all-composite cryogenic fuel tank at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center clear the way for large-scale application of the lightweight technology in future spacecraft and aircraft.

A day after delivering a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite into orbit from California, SpaceX returned its attention to building its Starlink broadband communications network with a midafternoon Feb. 3 launch of another Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center.

Engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have begun a three-month process to align the 18 segments of the James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror, fine-turning its shape so that it operates as a unified, 21-ft.-dia. mirror, NASA said on Feb. 3.

An entrepreneur with a background in space companies and an aerospace-focused investment group are partnering to launch a new company, O-G, that aims to provide microgravity and low Earth orbit (LEO) insertion services.

For the second mission in a row, one of four main parachutes used by SpaceX Dragon capsules inflated late, NASA confirmed on Feb. 3.