Space

Boeing and NASA were working to preserve as many test objectives as possible for the unmanned orbital debut of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner after a timer issue scuttled the capsule’s engine firing needed to reach the ISS.

Following a GAO ruling, the Air Force will have to be more strategic in pairing up best offerings for launch service contracts.

A look back at aviation and aerospace milestones that occurred over the last 10 years.

A Soyuz-2 launcher operated by Arianespace from Kourou, French Guiana, placed five satellites into orbit on Dec. 18.

Five months after being sidelined as NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, William Gerstenmaier has left the agency.

After transferring production technology to OneWeb Satellites’ plant in Florida, Airbus is looking for other applications.

Virgin Galactic conducts sole U.S. human spaceflight in 2019.

Amazon plans to open an R&D and prototype manufacturing center in Redmond, Washington, to oversee development of its Kuiper sat broadband program.

Rocket Lab looks for up to a dozen payload launches a year, while the spaceport is in talks to bring in more launch providers.

Funding for space situational awareness and position, navigation and timing were the biggest losers for space in the fiscal 2020 defense appropriations minibus.

U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees have agreed on a 2020 fiscal year budget package that includes $22.6 billion for NASA.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off Dec. 16 to deliver a 15,000-lb., Boeing-built communications satellite into orbit.

The ESA has released details on the active debris removal mission it has commissioned for 2025 after having selected ClearSpace, a Swiss startup company.

Airbus Ventures, the corporate venture capital investment wing of the European aerospace and defense giant, said it co-led a $17 million Series A round of investment in Munich-based Isar Aerospace.

Staging the solar electric foundation of NASA’s planned Gateway at the Moon will take some patience.

More new space launch providers could make the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, their home.

Small-sat launcher Rocket Lab will look to bring its expected first-stage booster recycling system to its new Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia.

Lockheed tests ground-launched long-range missile; Japan to keep making F-35s; Space Fence nears start of ops; NATO training center opens

NASA on Dec. 12 cleared Boeing for an uncrewed trial run of its CST-100 Starliner space taxi to the ISS.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission team has selected the primary and backup collection sites on the surface of the asteroid Bennu.

Northrop Grumman, one of four companies vying for a pair of national security space launch service contracts, has signed an agreement with Delaware

A NASA-led group is addressing the threat posed by space junk to a growing, more diverse space economy.

CEO Dan Jablonsky confirmed the company is exploring a wide range of possibilities.

After three spacewalks, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is almost ready to resume collecting cosmic rays.

S7 Space Corp. will relocate its Sea Launch complex to Russia.