Space

Using inputs from the fledging HAPS industry, Frontex believes HAPS would be useful for Earth observation.

Two Russian cosmonauts installed three orbital debris shields to the exterior of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment Rassvet.

SpaceX and NASA are meeting to discuss options for Artemis III’s return to the lunar surface.

Northrop bids dasvidaniya to rocket’s Russian engines.

The offerings are built around a new family of vehicles known as Elytra (a term for the wings of a firefly).

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other key agency leaders are acknowledging challenges in meeting the December 2025 schedule for the Artemis III lunar landing.

The spacecraft originally were to fly on separate missions on startup ABL Space Systems’ RS1.

Benchmark Space Systems, a propulsion systems manufacturer, has raised a $33 million Series B round.

Space tourism company makes room for experiments and prototypes.

Lockheed Martin has opened a 20,000-ft.2 small satellite assembly facility at its Waterton campus in Littleton, Colorado.

Amazon plans to take advantage of an earlier opportunity to fly a pair of test satellites for its Kuiper broadband constellation.

Redesigning and testing part of the parachute system on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will delay a long-awaited crew flight test (CFT) until March 2024 at the earliest.

Pale Blue has won a contract to provide its Resitojet water-vapor based propulsion system for a pair of 6U cubesats.

SpaceX has hot fired the engines of its next Super Heavy booster as it prepared for a second flight test of an integrated Starship-Super Heavy vehicle.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft reached lunar orbit on Aug. 5, setting the stage for a landing attempt on the Moon's south pole later this month.

The resumption of communications through NASA’s Deep Space Network follows a “shout” command transmitted to the probe by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA has reassigned astronaut Jeannette Epps, who has been awaiting a spaceflight since joining the astronaut corps in 2009, to the SpaceX Crew-8 mission.

Capture with the 58-ft.-long robot arm occurred at 5:52 a.m. EDT, with follow-up berthing of the capsule and its more than 8,200 lb. of cargo at 8:28 EDT.

Airbus, Lockheed Martin and Thales Alenia Space can take part in the first phase of the tender for the UK’s Skynet Enduring Capability Wideband satcoms program.

NASA has selected Axiom Space for a fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

The U.S. should study the design of a system for public reporting of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).

In 2021, BAE Systems acquired UK-based small satellite manufacturer In-Space Missions and now appears to be looking for more opportunities.

Northrop Grumman plans to increase the cargo capacity of its Cygnus cargo spacecraft from 3,750 kg to 5,000 kg.

The material will be carried by a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft as part of a commercial resupply service mission to the ISS.

Europe’s Airbus Defense and Space is upping its stake in the Voyager Space-led Starlab project.