Space

Made In Space, Inc. plans to advance its Vulcan Advanced Hybrid Manufacturing System for the in-space production of precision aerospace-grade metal parts.

British space companies are being barred from tendering for Galileo contracts as Brexit approaches.

The SSL-1300 has been the chassis for 120 communication satellites. Now, one is being designed to fly to Psyche, a metal world in the main asteroid belt.

NASA is kicking off a return to the Moon, with instruments and payloads possibly ready to fly as early as next year.

The USAF intends to award contracts to Lockheed and Northrop to build five sats that will form the basis of an interim space-based missile warning system.

The Canadian Space Agency has selected NanoRacks, LLC, for the launch and deployments of up to 15 small satellites from the ISS as part of a student initiative.

By measuring seismic waves, scientists hope to learn what lies beneath the surface of the red planet.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V blasted off from a fog-shrouded launchpad at Vandenberg AFB, California, on May 5 to send NASA’s InSight spacecraft and a pair of experimental cubesats on their way to Mars.

The British government is considering establishing its own constellation of navigation satellites.

Space officials seek to inspire a new generation of engineers who can travel to space or develop new technologies for energy and water conservation.

Military budget grows fastest in Asia and Middle East, Greece adjusts F-16 upgrade plans, Lockheed fires up fourth SBIRS satellite, and India’s Tejas tests air-to-air missile.

Firefly Aerospace is targeting an operational tempo of one mission every two weeks as it ramps up tests of the Lightning and Reaver engines.

SpaceX’s Block 5 is optimized for rapid reusability and multiple reflights, designed to meet the needs of its U.S. government and commercial customers.

The U.S. GAO has cited a troubling trend in cost and schedule growth among 26 major NASA projects, with a combined cost estimate of $61 billion.

The fourth satellite of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Based Infrared System constellation has achieved “first light,” beaming back its first images to Earth.

Engineers have completed performance testing of a prototype nuclear fission reactor capable of producing 1 kW of electricity, NASA said.

A congressman is confident that a $350 million NASA appropriation will pay for a second Mobile Launch Platform for the Space Launch System at KSC.

Low-cost launch company Rocket Lab says it remains on track to conduct up to eight Electron missions by the end of 2018.

NASA's Johnson Space Center is shouldering critical systems engineering and integration roles for the human-tended Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.

NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot became the 32nd recipient of the Rotary NASA Award for Space Achievement on April 27.

CAPE CANAVERAL - New Shepard, a reusable suborbital human space transportation system developed by privately owned Blue Origin, blasted off on April 29 for an eighth test flight beyond the atmosphere, marking another step toward the start of commercial launch service.

Replacing the heat shield is not expected to affect the mission’s launch readiness date of July 17, 2020, NASA says.

The Coast Guard, which anticipates a massive increase in sea-lane traffic throughout the Arctic in the coming years, is investigating the operational use of cubesat technology in its missions.

In addition to expendable rockets, Congress may require the Pentagon to consider reusable rockets such as those from SpaceX and Blue Origin for military launches.

A former space shuttle astronaut helps us see that what happens in orbit makes a big difference to people’s lives on the ground.