The first countries to sign bilateral Artemis Accords agreements with the U.S. are Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
Stockholm is planning to make investments in the planned launch site, near Kiruna in the north of the country, that would enable smallsat launch as early as 2022.
Chinese engineers have designed and tested equipment for aerial recovery of space launcher main engines, which they regard as offering advantages over powered descent by fully reusable first stages.
Rotating crews of astronauts and cosmonauts have been living aboard the orbital outpost for 20 years. Here are some other numbers behind the milestone.
The reserve could support perhaps 1,100 lunar personnel living and working permanently in the cislunar realm to grow a future $3 trillion annual space economy, ULA president and CEO Tory Bruno says.
The seven-year-old startup targeting end-of-life and debris-removal services for low Earth orbit satellites and beyond has landed $51 million in new venture capital from several investors.
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have selected a new technology for planetary sample collection and return for future missions to the Moon and Martian moon Phobos.
Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of CNES, tells Aviation Week’s Thierry Dubois about the agency’s progress on reusable launchers and other programs in conjunction with International Astronautical Congress 2020.
The U.S. Space Development Agency is looking for a company to launch an initial set of 28 communications and missile tracking satellites to low Earth orbit beginning in September 2022.
NASA is allocating $19.3 million for 21 studies on the physical and psychological issues astronauts will face as the agency prepares to return to the Moon’s surface in 2024 and advance to Mars in the 2030s.
As NASA continues feasibility studies into nuclear propulsion for deep space missions, DARPA has awarded an initial contract to help pave the way toward possible orbital tests of a nuclear-powered rocket for U.S. military use in and around cislunar space.
There are several intriguing scientific findings among a half-dozen research efforts published just ahead of the NASA Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission’s scheduled Oct. 20 touchdown on Bennu.
The U.S. military's interest in adapting a space launcher for the cargo resupply mission is entering a new phase, with a formal collaboration proposed with SpaceX for a proof of principle demonstration next year.
Momentus will become the next publicly traded new-space venture in early 2021, and the first self-described space infrastructure, upon closure of a deal announced Oct. 7 for blank-check company Stable Road Acquisition to buy the satellite orbit-mover startup.
Airbus is preparing for the launch of the first of four Pleiades Neo satellites, designed for improved resolution and more frequent revisits in Earth observation, and simultaneously working on a lower-cost generation.
Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson is stepping aside as commander of the planned June 2021 CST-100 Starliner crewed flight demonstration mission to the International Space Station, citing family obligations.
