Two months after the launch of its first-ever interplanetary science mission, the United Arab Emirates now counts two astronauts in training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
The European Space Agency this week awarded a €300 million ($350 million) contract to Airbus for the development of the Copernicus polar ice and snow topography mission.
U.S. and Russian flight control teams joined late Sept. 22 to successfully command a maneuver of the three-person International Space Station away from a close pass by an unidentified piece of space debris.
The U.S. Space Force and NASA have signed a memorandum of understanding to formally establish a collaborative partnership in the realm of operations, research and space launch.
Finland-based Iceye has closed an $87 million series C financing round to complete its planned 18-satellite constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) microsatellites and to build a U.S. manufacturing and engineering hub.
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $298 million contract to rapidly prototype the payload for the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications program that will ultimately replace the Advanced Extremely High Frequency system.
OneWeb has renegotiated its contract with Arianespace and plans to resume launching its broadband satellite network in December, pending court approval of its Chapter 11 reorganization plan.
Former International Space Station commander and three-time shuttle astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria is heading back to orbit, this time as on-site personnel for Axiom Space’s first private mission to the ISS.
After 14 launches from New Zealand, Rocket Lab is close to staging its first Electron mission from U.S. soil, with the completion of a wet dress rehearsal at its new Wallops Island launch site, one of the final preflight milestones.
To better prepare to expand astronaut presence from low Earth orbit into deep space, NASA has reorganized the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and established a science definition team for the restart of lunar surface sorties.
In an audit of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, the agency’s inspector general expresses concerns over the adequacy of funding and oversight of the recently established lunar Commercial Launch Provider Services (CLPS) initiative and efforts to identify potential impact threats to Earth posed by asteroids and comets as mandated by Congress.
NASA is removing a planned secondary payload from the August 2022 launch of its Psyche asteroid probe, leaving a pair of small satellites without a piggyback ride to Mars.
The FAA’s plan to amend the collision-avoidance methodology it uses in licensing commercial space launches will support safer operations with more flexible launch windows as space at low Earth orbit becomes increasingly congested, the agency says.
Working with Nanoracks, LLC, NASA is about to mark a milestone in its push to transition oversight of human scientific research and tech development in low Earth orbit to the private sector as it sets its sights on the Moon and Mars.
