Space

The key to the cost reduction will be an efficient production setup and use of hybrid solid-liquid propulsion.

U.S. Air Force adversary air providers; European tanker requirements; Russia seeks MiG-35 customers; and the U.S. is now operating polar protected satcom satellites.

Amid calls for tangible support to launcher programs, ESA member states to discuss $14 billion budget proposal.

NASA shows off Orion crew survival suit, prototype for lunar spacewalks.

To send astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a lunar landing system needs to be ready in less than half the time it has taken to develop Commercial Crew vehicles.

What aerospace companies can learn from the MAX crisis.

Boeing and SpaceX face final key tests as they enter the home stretch in delayed development of NASA’s Commercial Crew program.

Boeing has demoted Dennis Muilenburg on the board of directors, and giving the chair seat to the company’s leading independent director, David Calhoun, in the wake of the 737 MAX fiasco. Muilenburg will remain president and CEO.

Flying onboard the SOFIA Boeing 747SP airborne observatory during its annual New Zealand deployment gives an insight into NASA’s infrared astronomy program.

William H. Gregory, a World War II naval aviator, joined Aviation Week in 1956 and served as editor-in-chief from 1979 to 1984.

Ahead of a visit by NASA's administrator to SpaceX’s headquarters to discuss progress on the Commercial Crew Program, the company says more than 90% of certification products for the upcoming crewed demo flight have been delivered.

Partners signing up to join NASA Gateway initiative.

Space BD and Mitsui are launching cubesats from the International Space Station’s Japanese Experiment Module Kibo.

Boeing and Virgin Galactic will work together to develop commercial space access and high-speed exo-atmospheric transport systems under a strategic alliance announced on Oct. 8.

The engine is intended to be flown at least 50 times, but no more than three years are allowed for development.

The DF-17 has much the same configuration as the DARPA Falcon HTV-2. Its gliding vehicle should extend range and challenge defenses with maneuvers.

Among many Chinese private space companies, a launcher-maker is getting propulsion from a private engine company.

The 164-ft. steel Starship Mark 1 is readied for atmospheric testing.

With Orion’s service module development, Europe nurtures crewed flight skills.

An agreement between Iridium and OneWeb is called a LEO industry first.

Pioneering space habitat developer cancels launch contracts for ISS, low Earth orbit passenger flights.

As it seeks to steer a transition in oversight of research and development on the International Space Station and other low Earth orbit activities to the U.S. private sector, NASA is committed to avoiding a repeat of the decision to retire the space shuttle fleet without a still-absent capability to launch its own astronauts,

Low Earth orbit satellite companies Iridium and OneWeb have entered into a memorandum of understanding to explore bundled offerings of their respective L-band and Ku-band services.

Oberon will lean on British expertise in radars and smallsat technology.

Airbus, Boeing and Thales Alenia Space have introduced new, software-defined satellites that can be reconfigured in orbit to adapt to new missions.