Space

A test of abort thrusters destroyed the capsule that had returned from an unmanned test flight to the International Space Station.

After a near-flawless journey to lunar orbit, Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft reached the Moon’s surface but crashed about 2 min. before its slated touchdown.

More then a year after its flight test, Falcon Heavy enters commercial service.

The gargantuan twin-fuselage launch vehicle carrier aircraft made a successful 2-hr. 29-min. first flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport.

Exactly how NASA could pull off a 2024 Moon landing remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: It will cost billions.

Space launch company Stratolaunch has successfully completed the long-anticipated first flight of its 385-ft.-span, six-engined mothership at Mojave Air & Spaceport.

In-space logistics are the key to increasing robustness and economic productivity.

After the geostationary communications satellite market collapse, Maxar is focused on launching its Legion satellites and rapidly providing data to customers.

Unusual debuts at Aero; Wing delivers in Australia; Ehang flies food; UK counters UAS; DARPA challenges launch teams; Connecting UAS to ATC.

The U.S. is recapitalizing its space assets while simultaneously focusing on a future space architecture.

Japanese F-35s grounded; industry calls Air Force IP buybacks a mistake; Raytheon helping bridge space tracking gap; Ukraine’s new cruise missile.

The National Space Foundation’s (NSF) Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project has unveiled the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.

Responsive launch, defending U.S. satellites in geosynchronous orbit and a proliferated satellite constellation in low Earth orbit may all be tools for defending against adversaries in space, but the nation needs to keep all options open through funding all avenues, according to the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition executive.

The Pentagon is making optimistic assumptions, especially regarding congressional support, in its five-year plan for a U.S. Space Force (USSF), according to sources on Capitol Hill and in industry.

Brazil’s hopes for self-sufficiency in space ride on Visiona’s nanosat.

Westcott facility for Reaction Engines core testing takes British high-speed rocket propulsion research back to its post-war roots.

High-temperature, Mach 3.3 test paves the way for a hypersonic run for Reaction Engines pre-cooler.

The U.S. is responding to increased Chinese and Russian space threats by building a space force and planning to spend $14 billion in fiscal 2020. Is it enough?

Flying the SpaceX Falcon Heavy with ULA upper stage is an option for lunar missions beyond 2022.

Turkey, U.S. still at odds over S-400; Lockheed to deliver AEHF-5 soon; Cubesat to process hyperspectral images; and sizing up the defense electronics market.

Steppingstones are in place to fast-track revived U.S. lunar exploration initiative, but some key items are missing.

UK space tech firms Surrey Satellite Technology and Oxford Space Systems have been awarded government funding to develop a stowage-efficient Synthetic Aperture Radar.

The space agency sticks with the SLS and considers options to keep the rocket debut in 2020.

The U.S. Air Force is renewing its focus on how to fight in space to compete with China and Russia.

Within the next six months, Lockheed Martin plans to launch a cubesat mission to demo a software-defined sat architecture that will allow a spacecraft to change missions while on orbit.