Space

The disagreement epitomizes the damages of Brexit—and the opportunity to forge a new security partnership.

Biology and biotechnology experiments soon headed for the International Space Station could have a number of far-reaching implications.

Meteorologists expect a breakthrough in weather forecast, thanks to a first-of-its-kind space-borne Lidar that will measure wind at 24 different altitudes.

New detail emerges about SpaceX’s "giant party balloon" upper-stage recovery studies.

Forty-two years after Viking landers looked for organics, Curiosity found them, setting the stage for a focused search for signs of life.

Scientists still stumped by cause of gas release and why it vanishes exponentially faster than models predict.

For Blue Origin, the first step is to cut launch costs with reusable rockets and capsules.

Darpa envisions an operational constellation of 60-200 satellites at 500-1,300-km altitude, each carrying one or more payloads and each costing less than $6 million including its launch.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station early June 4 to deliver a powerful new communications satellite into orbit for Luxembourg-based SES.

Airline aims suborbital; behavior-detecting drones; Airbus reinforces urban air; Siemens electrifies aviation; Echodyne tracks drones.

The growing size and complexity of government networks require planners to tap capabilities offered by commercial platforms.

NASA’s upcoming Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) promises a deeper look into the processes by which cosmic rays penetrate the heliosphere to pose a radiation threat to the humans.

A three-person U.S, Russian and Japanese International Space Station crew descended safely to Earth early June 3, the first step in a five-day exchange of personnel aboard the orbiting science lab.

Astronaut Alan Bean, who became the fourth person to walk on the moon during Apollo 12 and later flew on a record-breaking mission to the Skylab space station has died at age 86.

Britain is looking to step up its role as an international space power not only commercially, but militarily too.

Lockheed AEHF satellite test; Indonesia wants eight more Apaches; India tests BrahMos life extension; Northrop upgrades Japan’s missile warning infrastructure.

As NASA prepares for start of commercial spaceflight, ‘load and go’ is among operational alternatives it will assess as a system.

Thales Alenia Space’s Spacebus Neo satellite platform has passed its critical design review.

Software testbeds developed by Ball Aerospace and BAE Systems are evaluating a new app-based approach to situational awareness and command and control in space.

Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) is growing its space aspirations by taking over the command and control of UK military space operations.

Spacecraft software for drones, DARPA’s Gremlins on show, gunship launches drone, AACUS in action, HorseFly drone delivers, and recovery parachute for eVTOLs.

ULA piecing together Vulcan rocket; Israeli Air Force’s transport upgrade; Saab builds Gripen facility in Brazil, and Indonesia receives two more maritime patrollers.

Simultaneous solicitations for payloads and flight services could return U.S. to the lunar surface as early as 2019.

SpaceX plans novel test of booster’s reusability by flying it twice in 24 hr.

During a 1997 flyby of Jupiter moon Europa, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft appears to have flown through an eruptive watery plume over 600 mi. long, a study says.