Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has moved the planned launch of the SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from Aug. 17 to Aug. 21.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The last of Northrop Grumman's Antares rockets equipped with Russian NPO Energomash engines and Ukrainian Yuzhmash-developed parts launched late on Aug. 1.
Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic's spaceplane VSS Unity’s cockpit and structure were enhanced for higher-tempo operations and were tested in June on its first commercial flight.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Launch risks, cryogenic and uranium fuel are among the challenges facing the agencies’ ambitious DRACO space nuclear thermal propulsion orbital demonstration.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The B612 Foundation has made publicly available a nongovernment “precovery service” for the confirmation and orbital refining of asteroid trajectories.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
President Joe Biden is reversing ex-President Donald Trump’s decision to move U.S. Space Command headquarters to Alabama and will keep it in Colorado Springs.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Euclid was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on July 1 and reached its operational orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) four weeks later.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Impulse Space plans two follow-on missions in 2024 after its inaugural LEO Express 1 mission before year’s end.
Commercial Space

By Ben Goldstein
The award is similar to one received by Joby Aviation in April to deliver and operate up to nine of its S4 eVTOL aircraft for the U.S. Air Force.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
Voyager 2, one of NASA’s most distant and longest-lived spacecraft, has lost its ability to transmit data through the agency’s Deep Space Network (DSN).
Space

By Mark Carreau
Argentina has become the 28th signatory to the U.S.-led Artemis Accords
Space

By Irene Klotz
Seven missions have been set aside for the third-place winner.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Irene Klotz
Axiom, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have all flown privately paying passengers into orbital and suborbital space from the U.S.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The foursome has trained for a more than six-month mission with a science and technology agenda that includes nearly 160 projects.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Kleos Space, a startup that sought to make and offer a satellite constellation for radio frequency monitoring, is filing for bankruptcy.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio, Garrett Reim, Irene Klotz
Editors discuss the meaning of exponential smallsat growth, new technologies for flying satellites in formation and U.S. national security space needs.
Check 6

By Irene Klotz
The road to launch detoured back to the rocket factory for an upper-stage modification.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting is President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the four-year-old command.
Space

By Guy Norris
The contract award is targeted at tests of a nuclear thermal rocket engine vehicle in space by 2027.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Final trials before the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6 launcher saw ESA engineers perform an extensive assessment with the combined test model.
Space

By Mark Carreau
No strangers to extraterrestrial materials, the ARES team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center are preparing to receive materials gathered from the asteroid Bennu.
Space

By Garrett Reim
NASA has selected 11 U.S. companies to develop advanced technologies for long-term exploration of the Moon and space.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The startup plans to develop its largest space vehicle, the Helios.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The base period of the Integrated Mission Operations Contract III (IMOC III) cost plus/award fee contract extends from Oct. 1 through Sept. 28, 2028.
Space