Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the $11 billion, U.S.-led successor to the Hubble observatory, is being delayed at least four days to no earlier than Dec. 22 to allow time for additional analysis following a mishap during processing the telescope for launch in French Guiana.
Space, missile and cyber electronics rollup BlueHalo announced its latest acquisition Nov. 23 with a deal for Asymmetrik, a boutique software provider to the U.S. intelligence community.
Aviation Week Network’s new 2022 Military Fleet and MRO Forecast has identified open opportunities for the supply of 3,584 new-build military aircraft worth $134.8 billion over the next decade.
Astra Space, a California-based startup staking a claim in the burgeoning small-satellite launch business, completed a successful flight test of its Rocket 3.1 booster on Nov. 20, a mission backed by the U.S. Space Force.
Voyager Space, a private equity-backed holding company of new-space upstarts such as Nanoracks, announced Nov. 22 it has acquired a majority stake in Space Micro, a satellite communications specialist for NASA and the U.S. military.
A newly discovered data dump by the U.S. Air Force last August discloses the first details about the progress in flight test of the secretive Lockheed Martin AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile.
The U.S. military needs to catch up to China and Russia in offensive hypersonic weapons development quickly, while focusing on new ways to defend against the threat of missiles that have made the world a much more complicated place, the Space Force’s No. 2 officer said.
The mission is a bold attempt to demonstrate whether a spacecraft traveling at high velocity can slam into an asteroid with enough kinetic energy to knock it off course—an ability that could one day enable humanity to counter objects that pose an impact threat to Earth.
China’s AVIC Aerodynamics Research Institute says it has completed construction of a new hypersonic wind tunnel that is reportedly able to simulate speeds from Mach 4 to Mach 8.
Northrop Grumman’s 16th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission capsule departed the International Space Station on Nov. 20, ending a stay of just more than three months and setting up an experiment intended to improve the modeling of spacecraft thermal protection systems.
One pilot was killed and two others injured Nov. 19 when two U.S. Air Force T-38C Talon trainer aircraft collided with each other on the runway at Laughlin AFB, Texas.
The Pentagon on Nov. 19 selected Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle to compete for a multibillion cloud services contract, the next attempt to field the capability after the failed Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud contract was canceled.
The Space Development Agency (SDA) is looking forward to 2022 as a year of massive growth, integration into the U.S. Space Force and the first launches of its Tranche 0 transport layer satellites. But many of its plans could be in limbo as Congress faces an impending deadline to pass a spending bill.
Sierra Space’s expansive goal of developing a space transport and habitation ecosystem has received a major boost with the successful raising of a $1.4 billion Series A capital investment.
The UK’s Royal Air Force has conducted a series of flights with sustainable aviation fuels as part of initial trials to try to reduce its carbon footprint.
Norway on Nov. 18 accepted its first of five Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, the first operator of the modern sub hunter in Scandinavia as Russia develops more silent and capable submarines.
