Space

NASA traditionally has analyzed cost, schedule and technical risks to determine a program’s health. But that approach can lead to tunnel vision, warns the agency's outgoing Acting Administrator.

Lockheed Martin has submitted a bid for a contract worth up to $10 billion to make the next set of GPS III satellites.

The U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee on April 17 endorsed passage of a 2018/19 NASA authorization bill.

India’s state-run space agency wants to mount nine missions in the next eight months.

NASA and the Israeli Space Agency have signed an agreement that could lead to the testing of an astronaut radiation shielding vest.

Orbital ATK has given its rocket a name—Omega—and chosen a third-stage engine—Aerojet Rocketdyne’s RL10.

NASA’s planned April 16 launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission was scrubbed hours from liftoff.

Stratolaunch Systems plans three more speed taxi tests of its twin-fuselage Stratolaunch aircraft before an initial test flight this summer,

A 2018 NASA spending boost appears to offer the agency some flexibility in launch plans for the first and second test flights of the SLS and Orion crew capsule.

India’s state-run space agency has successfully launched the eighth spacecraft in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, IRNSS-1I.

South Korea has provisionally chosen LIG Nex1 to build five reconnaissance satellites due for launch between 2020 and 2023.

Analysis of Virgin Galactic’s initial test flight of the SS2 shows the spacecraft performed as well as, or in some cases better, than model-based predictions.

Analysis of Virgin Galactic’s initial test flight of the SS2 shows the spacecraft performed as good as, or in some cases better, than model-based predictions.

Even with its recent push to return astronauts to the lunar environs, NASA has not given up on landing astronauts on Mars.

NASA has cleared Aerojet Rocketdyne to begin production of the Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial propulsion unit for future space science missions.

X Prize is forging ahead with its high-stakes Lunar X Prize competition following Google’s decision to drop its sponsorship.

India’s navigation system is due to receive a new satellite, IRNSS-1I, on April 12.

After a January mishap, the Ariane 5 launcher started rebuilding its reputation for near-perfect reliability with the successful launch of two spacecraft.

Artificial intelligence, augmented reality and other new digital technologies are infiltrating aerospace and defense businesses faster than expected, a new report claims. Listen in as we discuss how industry is reacting to new technologies.

Commerce secretary pushes greater U.S. share of the global space economy.

ULA CEO Tony Bruno has bold claims for the company’s space propulsion module, which starts off as an upper stage on ULA’s planned Vulcan rocket.

The test run by pilots Mark “Forger” Stucky and Dave Mackay was the first powered flight of a SpaceShipTwo vehicle since an Oct. 31, 2014, accident that killed one pilot, seriously injured the second and destroyed the original spaceship, VSS Enterprise.

The manufacturing of two key components for the Ariane 6 and Vega C launchers, the first nozzle for the P120 solid rocket motor and the first hydrogen tank for the Ariane’s upper stage, has been completed.

SpaceX wants to establish an additional landing option for Dragon capsules returning with International Space Station crew.

The RemoveDebris active debris removal mission will test both net and harpoon capture techniques and, after the testing is complete, the satellite will deploy a dragsail to ensure it re-enters and burns up.