Space

Aviation Week editors talk with Airbus Space Chief about the OneWeb venture into the small satellite, low Earth orbit market and navigating the dramatic changes in the industry.

Swarm Technologies’ four prototypes flew aboard an Indian rocket in January. The FAA says they are too small to be detected by the Space Surveillance Network.

Among the first test-cases for the revamped office are a pair of cubesats that will accompany the upcoming InSight mission to Mars.

Arianespace’s CEO discusses the recent Ariane 5 mishap, Ariane 6 development and chances of reusability becoming a viable alternative.

China plans 36 flights by Casc’s various Long March space launchers this year. Long March 11 looks mature, but others have slipped.

Preparing for authorization for manned Moon missions, the Chinese space industry is working on three engines and has built a test airframe structure.

Previously announced winners, Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Tomorrow's Leaders also were honored.

Completing a demo for a huge first-stage rocket engine, maybe in 2018, is among tech acquisition projects that China’s main space industry group is undertaking.

Intelsat is driving innovation in the way it transmits data to smaller and smaller terminals and in its business models.

The U.S. Air Force wants to lease commercial bandwidth to build an agile, resilient communications network for the modern battlefield.

DARPA goes smallsat; Lockheed’s ship-based laser; Safran hybrid power demo; Boeing Australia autonomy initiative; Fortem’s radar-toting DroneHunter.

Michigan-based Orbion is aiming to fly Hall effect thruster on smallsat in 2019.

Even though the DOD plans to spend over $8 billion on space in fiscal 2019, those in Congress and experts on space and budgeting say the U.S. needs to do more.

Megaconstellations of broadband satellites are expected to join flocks of cubesats in increasingly crowded low Earth orbit.

TESS expected to find targets for future exoplanet atmospheric studies by James Webb Space Telescope.

The service is readying for a great-power conflict by accelerating development of a next-generation fighter family and redefining battle management.

National Space Council tackles regulatory reform to bolster U.S. commercial space industry.

Bigelow Aerospace plans to stand up the Bigelow Space Operations venture and exercise a cooperative agreement with Casis.

A look inside NASA’s fiscal 2019 aeronautics budget: low-boom supersonics; electric propulsion; urban air mobility.

These exceptional aerospace students are honored by Aviation Week and the AIAA for their academic accomplishements and extracuriccular activities.

At this point, the Outer Space Treaty legally applies only to countries, not commercial companies.

The White House budget directs the space agency to wean from the International Space Station by 2025 and use commercial outposts instead.

Once the new constellation of 66 Iridium Next satellites is in place, Aireon plans to begin providing oceanic surveillance service.

Company plans ‘hopper’ tech development program for interplanetary spaceship.

Delivery of a sports car into space is a light touch, but the low-cost, privately developed rocket signals changing times for industry. Photo: John Kraus