Space

U.S. Military bureaucracy has neglected serious risks to the system and its users for decades.

UK government sees OneWeb acquisition as a steppingstone to sovereign global navigation system.

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is looking at suborbital flights.

Here is a look at missions that have landed and attempted to land on Mars, as well as upcoming projects by the U.S., China and Europe.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has a strategy for winning support from a Republican-led Senate for NASA’s full $25.2 billion fiscal 2021 budget request, after Democrat-led House authorizers voted against a requested 12% topline increase.

NASA and Boeing have completed a joint review of software and verification problems that cut short the uncrewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, resulting in 80 recommendations to be implemented prior to a repeat test targeted for late this year.

UAE and China are looking for Mars debuts, joining eight spacecraft currently operating at the Red Planet.

The Mars InSight lander’s mission team has decided to give its 6-ft.-long robot arm a rest from applying pressure into the red planet’s surface.

Legislators’ first draft of a fiscal 2021 budget for NASA scales back the Trump administration’s requested 12% increase to current spending levels of $22.6 billion, which would moot a 2024 crewed landing on Moon.

The sponsors of a global student contest to virtually design small lunar race cars have chosen four winners.

NASA hopes to have the Artemis Accords ready for signature by year’s end, according to Mike Gold, NASA’s acting administrator for the agency’s Office of International and Interagency Agreements.

Inmarsat is developing a “smart pipe” satellite communications (satcom) infrastructure for the Boeing 777X that independently allocates bandwidth for multiple, disparate applications.

NASA astronaut and cancer researcher Kate Rubins, the first person to sequence DNA from space, is hopeful for a resurgence in science and technology activities aboard the International Station when she returns to the ISS in October.

Although named Ofek 16, the spacecraft launched early on July 6 represents the 12th acknowledged platform in the Ofek series, with the last being the Ofek 11 in 2016. The Ofek series has previously been described as a light, agile spy satellite with a mass up to 815 lb. (369 kg) and an unclassified resolution of about 19 in. (50 cm).

About 4 min. into its second-stage burn, the Electron rocket “experienced an issue that caused the complete loss of the vehicle and unfortunately the payloads,” Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck said.

The British government is to make a $500 million investment in the failed communications satellite company OneWeb.

Australia has said it will acquire reconnaissance and communications satellites while also building space-awareness cooperation with the U.S.

After missions to assess Mars’ suitability for life, a new rover will hunt for microfossils and cache them for return to Earth.

The Moon’s subsurface may be richer in metals like iron and titanium oxide than previously thought, according to new research drawn from NASA’s long

Will the Senate boost a secret missile? House may back third launcher; New trainers for South Korea; and Embraer’s third KC-390.

The flight readiness engine, produced at Blue Origin’s Kent, Washington, is the first of two BE-4s ULA will attach to a Vulcan rocket for configuration checks and testing.

HOUSTON—Spacewalking NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken made significant progress July 1 in their month-long effort to upgrade bulky

Boeing defense chief talks about increased introspection, the impact of COVID-19 on the market and plans for the KC-46.

Another problem has arisen while preparing the Mars 2020 rover for launch, triggering an additional eight-day delay to July 30, NASA said June 30.

The House Armed Services Committee proposes investing $150 million in space technology development in the chairman’s mark of the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill.