Space

By Garrett Reim
Europe’s space and telecommunication heavyweights have formed a consortium to bid for the European Union’s IRIS² satellite constellation.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Thai satellite service provider and operator Thaicom has entered a partnership with Japan’s Synspective to provide synthetic aperture radar satellite services.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The resourcing of solid rocket motors has been a key priority for the Pentagon, with the surge of munitions shipped to Ukraine highlighting the limited supply.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Cosmonauts made progress with an upgrade to the International Space Station (ISS) Russian segment’s Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The pacing item to return to flight may be the automated destruct safety system.
Connected Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Turkey has named a former air force F-16 pilot as its first astronaut.
Space

By Guy Norris
The Airbus Perlan 2 stratospheric glider is en route to South America.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Lulav Space’s engineers gained experience with lunar guidance, navigation and control via prior work on the Beresheet 1 lunar lander mission in 2019.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The multiyear MSR mission is being jointly led by NASA and the European Space Agency.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Twenty-seven seconds into the flight an “energetic event” caused a communications breakdown with another engine, No. 19.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The effort is using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), located about 50 mi. west of Socorro, New Mexico.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter will be repositioned for a new campaign following completion of its 50th sortie.
Space

By Irene Klotz
ViaSat-3 Americas, the first terabit-class communications satellite, reached orbit on May 1.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
A team of scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil in a test.
Space

By Irene Klotz
A 52.5-ft.-long antenna for the ice-penetrating radar instrument aboard the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft has failed to fully deploy.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Two astronauts from NASA and the UAE conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on April 28.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Startup fails in attempt to be the first private company to land on the Moon.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The UAE's Hope spacecraft became the first probe to visit the smaller of Mars’ two moons during a series of close-up flybys in March.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Japanese startup ALE plans to launch another Sky Canvas satellite in 2024 that will dispense artificial meteorites.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic completed the first glide flight of the updated SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity from Spaceport America in New Mexico on April 26.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Operating under unfunded Space Act Agreements, the companies will work for periods of 12 to 24 months.
Space

By Jen DiMascio, Irene Klotz, Garrett Reim, Brian Everstine
Aviation Week editors talk about the aftermath of the Starship test and the future of commercial and military space launches.
Check 6

By Guy Norris
Rolls is leveraging its 60-plus years of submarine reactor work to develop and test components of a micro-reactor nuclear power system for space applications.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Turkish trainer flies; a look at two U.S. Space Force programs; Rocket Lab’s hypersonic test and Biden picks new Army chief.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
During the test campaign, Reliable Robotics coordinated encounters of 2 of its aircraft in California while data was being collected by FAA ground-based radar.
Advanced Air Mobility