NASA’s Artemis initiative to return human explorers to the Moon’s surface in 2024 is expected to cost about $35 billion going forward, Douglas Loverro, NASA’s new associate administrator for human exploration and operations, told a Feb. 10 news briefing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
The Trump administration’s fiscal 2021 defense budget request is “flat” for the Pentagon but doubles down on space, hypersonic and cyber capabilities against China, Russia and others and would make recent changes to the national security structure “irreversible,” officials said Feb 10.
President Donald Trump is requesting $25.2 billion for NASA for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, a whopping 12% budget increase in an attempt to bankroll a fast-track mission to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024.
The rescheduled launch of Northrop Grumman’s 13th Cygnus re-supply mission to the International Space Station now is planned for no earlier than Feb. 13 at 4:06 p.m. EST.
A ULA Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 9, sending a joint European-U.S. science spacecraft on its way for an unprecedented mission to study the Sun’s polar regions.
NASA and Boeing will review all 1 million lines of code following errors found during the CST-100 Starliner's troubled uncrewed orbital flight demonstration mission in December.
KBR, Inc. will train commercial astronauts selected for missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and perhaps other destinations under a nonexclusive NASA Reimbursable Space Act Agreement.
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a batch of 34 satellites for aspiring broadband operator OneWeb lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Feb. 6, setting the stage for monthly flights to build an initial constellation of 648 spacecraft.
After forming a strategic partnership in 2019, Alphabet company Loon and SoftBank subsidiary HAPSMobile have jointly developed a broadband-internet communications payload for the AeroVironment-designed Hawk30 high-altitude pseudo-satellite.
In addition to a software problem that ultimately forced Boeing to abandon a docking of its first CST-100 Starliner at the International Space Station, the uncrewed capsule suffered a second, previously unreported software problem during its December flight test.
L3Harris has received the green light to develop an experimental spacecraft that will improve the military’s positioning, navigation and timing assets.
Record-setting NASA astronaut Christina Koch was among three U.S., European and Russian International Space Station crewmembers who ended long missions to the ISS on Feb. 6.
The U.S. Space Force may be up and running, but it is still working out the details of how it will run, what its uniformed members will be called, and how it will acquire the future tools it will need.
The U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center intends to unveil a Space Situational Awareness Marketplace later this year to help satisfy the military’s insatiable appetite for data.
U.S. startup Astra Space has emerged from stealth mode and identified itself as the sole remaining competitor in DARPA’s Launch Challenge to increase the flexibility and pace of flights into low Earth orbit.
Solar research by NASA’s Heliophysics Division, NOAA and the National Science Foundation have been slowed by budgets that fail to keep pace with inflation, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
