Space

Alfred “Al” Worden, the command module pilot on the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon, died in his sleep on March 18 in Texas.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster, making an unprecedented fifth flight, successfully dispatched another 60 Starlink websats into orbit, then failed to touch down on a drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

As NASA struggles with cost and schedule challenges in the development of the Space Launch System and Orion crew capsule, it is facing similar difficulties with another key piece of hardware, the Mobile Launcher.

Launch provider Rocket Lab is being considered by NASA for certification to loft higher value payloads on future research and demonstration missions following initial space agency approval to launch low-cost, small satellites.

The first example of the Orion spacecraft, slated for an unmanned mission as part of NASA’s Artemis lunar program, recently passed key tests.

Rocket launching company Rocket Lab has reached a deal to acquire satellite hardware maker Sinclair Interplanetary, the companies announced late March 16.

The first flight of the second version of the Long March 7 medium-heavy space launcher has failed, state media reported.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s planetary science decadal survey for 2023 to 2032 has some significant new themes—astrobiology and planetary defense—according to a virtual presentation sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).

Arianespace has indefinitely suspended its launch preparation activities at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, due to the implementation of measures against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Space Force recently accepted its first offensive weapon system, the Counter Communications System Block 10.2, providing quick reaction capability that denies adversary satellite communications.

The 156-1/2-ft.-long core stage launched commercial re-supply missions to the International Space Station in June and December of 2017.

NASA spending could reach $50 billion by the first Moon landing in 2024.

The 45th Space Wing sees launch on demand for commercial and government satellites in the near future.

Northrop Grumman takes a next step on in-orbit satellite servicing through a public-private partnership with DARPA.

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has been closed to all but mission-essential personnel after an employee tested positive for

With a 2024 deadline to land crew on the Moon, NASA is putting its procurement processes on speed drive.

The decision to delay came after it appeared the full test program could not be conducted before this summer’s launch window.

Ongoing problems with NASA’s Space Launch System may delay efforts to return to the Moon with human explorers by late 2024, according to the NASA inspector general.

Where weapons exports are going; Russian mercenaries hit U.S. UAS; Rocket Lab’s next NRO launch; and a Sea Venom Trial.

Japanese suborbital spaceflight startup PD AeroSpace plans to fly the latest in a series of the subscale company’s first suborbital test vehicles.

The strategy aims to correct a longstanding problem for the Pentagon—that its communication networks use thousands of disparate terminals that are not compatible with each other.

“Soon we will release an inaugural doctrine” for the Space Force, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said March 10 in Washington.

"Unless we improve our rate of innovation dramatically, then there is no chance of a base on the Moon or a city on Mars,” SpaceX Founder Elon Musk says.

Rocket Lab will launch its second mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office during a 14-day launch window that opens March 27.

The U.S. Space Force has a new launch goal, dubbed “Set the Pace for Space,” which aims to make launch on demand available for commercial and military customers.