Space

NASA’s proposed Deep Space Gateway is gathering enough interest among the U.S. ISS partnership to become part of the evolving Global Exploration Roadmap.

NASA has cleared SpaceX to use a previously flown Falcon 9 first stage for its upcoming cargo run to the International Space Station.

Vega has been a great success for Avio, encouraging further innovation for the rocket.

NASA’s multibillion-dollar Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope is undergoing a near-term, top-to-bottom cost/benefit analysis and a descoping of the technically challenging coronagraph.

SpaceX is still aiming for two to three more launches this year, but the debut flight of Falcon Heavy won’t be among them.

The CST-100 Starliner, one of two U.S. spacecraft in development for NASA International Space Station crew rotation, is on track for a 2018 debut.

In this week’s Washington Outlook, a Senate chairman’s bill still has many hurdles to overcome and the Transportation Department brings an end to Eastern Air Lines.

The spacecraft made by Ball Aerospace is the first of four similarly instrumented ones designed to extend severe weather forecasts out as far as seven days.

India and Japan are planning a joint mission to the Moon—the second time the two countries have teamed up for a lunar probe.

SpaceX’s launch of a classified mission for an undisclosed U.S. government customer will be delayed until at least December.

Experts in nuclear policy caution that changes to limit the president's authority on ordering a first strike could disrupt the U.S.’s ability to deter attacks.

The newly created national security launch subsidiary of Virgin Orbit has won its first contract from the U.S. Defense Department.

Made In Space the Silicon Valley 3D printing startup, is fashioning a metal fabrication capability for the in-space production of aluminum, stainless steel and titanium components.

The first private lunar mission is expected to launch in early 2018, a half-century after nations raced to get to the Moon.

Milestone completes Sierra Nevada’s paid NASA Commercial Crew work and sets up critical design review for unmanned station resupply missions. Photo: NASA

The launch of U.S. astronauts on more "one-year" International Space Station missions are not planned until commercial crew operations are underway.

Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to conduct a series of progressively higher-altitude drop tests of its Dream Chaser spacecraft following the successful completion of the flight at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, in Edwards, California.

In this week's Washington Outlook: Defense policy legislation skips the creation of a corps, puts the deputy defense secretary in charge of space spending.

The U.S. space agency is optimistic about a December 2019 launch, but could slip Exploration Mission-1 to June 2020.

The Oklahoma Republican congressman would become the first professional politician to head the U.S. space agency.

Aiming to mitigate effects from delayed Exploration Mission-1, the ascent abort test of Orion’s launch escape system will proceed, program manager says.

Astronomers in 10 nations tracked object that passed 27,200 mi. from the Earth's surface and measured 15 m by 8 m.

The power of the Space Launch System can enable a mission to study the region between the Solar System and the stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Orbital ATK’s eighth resupply mission to the ISS will carry a number of forward-looking scientific research and technology demonstrations to be staged aboard microsats.

The head of the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center forecasts a significant funding bump in the service’s fiscal 2019 space budget for more prototyping, demonstration and experimentation programs.