Resupply puts station on soundest footing since 2014

SpaceX's successful landing of a Falcon 9 first stage on a barge at sea marks another milestone in the company’s efforts to incorporate launcher reusability into its business plan.

The New Horizons spacecraft was hailed in 2006 as the fastest vehicle ever to depart the Earth. Its mission: to learn more about the complex world of Pluto, its mountains and Moons and flowing ices.

Tehran’s ballistic missile tests alert Israel and its regional neighbors to the need for effective air defense.

Blue Origin achieved a milestone in reusable spacecraft April 2, launching and recovering a New Shepard suborbital spacecraft for the third time in a row after relatively minor refurbishment.

The 32nd Space Symposium is happening April 11 – 14th in Colorado Springs, and Aerospace Daily & Defense Report was on hand to bring you the latest developments from the show.

Aviation Week’s revelation that China had tested an anti-satellite weapon, destroying one of its own aging weather satellites orbiting 537 mi. above Earth, created quite a sensation in 2007.

The team will seek an $80 million, multi-year extension of the decade-long mission that logged the first flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto in July 2015.