Space

By Michael Bruno
The provider of bespoke space, intelligence, directed energy and cyber services to government agencies has acquired The Design Knowledge Co. and PreTalen.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
The experimental cubesat will monitor aircraft signals from space to support rescue organizations.
Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
The company behind the MyRadar smartphone app has launched a first, experimental cubesat designed to monitor aircraft signals from space and support a rapid response capability by rescue organizations.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
House and Senate fiscal 2020 defense authorization bill conferees have reached an agreement that includes establishing a new U.S. Space Force.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
The new associate administrator will oversee the space station, Commercial Crew program, SLS and Artemis.
Air Warfare Symposium

By Mark Carreau
NASA is assessing possible options to keep on schedule the Artemis initiative of achieving an accelerated return to the Moon’s surface with human explorers in 2024 even if lawmakers again fail to come together on a 2020 federal budget, agency Administrator Jim Bridenstine says.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Amid renewed interest for space programs in Europe, ESA will be able to fund Earth-observation and space vehicle projects.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Plans for International Space Station astronauts to conduct three high-priority spacewalks before year’s end appear to be slipping into 2020.
Defense and Space

This year’s Aviation Week Photo Contest winners include a Canadian Snowbirds pilot, aerospace engineers, a space policy expert and a commercial pilot.
Air Transport

By Irene Klotz
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Dec. 5 to send a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
Boeing’s first space-bound CST-100 Starliner capsule has been hoisted atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for a practice launch countdown ahead of its planned Dec. 19 trial run to the ISS.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission is providing the closest-ever observations of the high temperatures generated by the Sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force’s Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization Payload can transition to the manufacturing phase after successfully completing a critical design review.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission spacecraft entered the full-scale ion propulsion cruise phase of its return to Earth from Ryugu as planned late Dec. 2 U.S. time, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided publicly released imagery of the Indian Space Research Organization’s Vikram lander crash site and associated debris after the spacecraft attempted an automated soft landing at the Moon’s south pole nearly two months ago.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The crew of the ISS has kicked off a busy final month of the year with the third of four planned spacewalks to repair the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
The 22 member states of the European Space Agency have agreed to fund the organization’s activities for a record €14.4 billion ($15.8 billion) over five years.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Though quite small, curious seasonal variations in concentrations of oxygen in the thin Martian atmosphere have scientists baffled and striving to provide an explanation.
Space

By Jen DiMascio, Irene Klotz, Lee Hudson
Aviation Week discuss how a government watchdog has changed the military’s effort to choose two launch providers from a field of Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance.
Space

By Bill Carey
House leaders urge the FAA to step up progress on a system to better segregate space launches from other air traffic.
Air Transport

By Angus Batey
A British startup has unveiled a one-fifth scale model of an innovative lunar lander in partnership with a Ukrainian manufacturer, and plans to test another vehicle in the UAE.
Program Management

By Thierry Dubois
The European Space Agency council at the ministerial level opened Nov. 27 in Seville, Spain, to discuss a proposed increase in spending.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
As concern over space debris rises and small businesses develop solutions, European Space Agency chief calls for “ethical” actions.
Space

By Angus Batey
A British startup has unveiled a one-fifth scale model of an innovative lunar lander in partnership with a Ukrainian manufacturer, and plans to test another vehicle in the UAE.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The NASA Orion capsule assigned to the first joint test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, reached Ohio by air transport from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 24.
Defense and Space