Space

Aviation Week Staff
Russia is close to completing the construction of a new launchpad for Angara rockets in Vostochny spaceport in the country’s Far East.
Space

By Garrett Reim, Irene Klotz
Astroscale U.S. and Momentus have submitted a joint bid to boost NASA’s Hubble space telescope to a higher orbit using a robotic spacecraft.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The prospect is based on still-maturing research underway aboard the ISS and Earth-based research and technology labs.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Bids are due in U.S. bankruptcy court later this month.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Small-satellite manufacturer has been teasing its capacity for more than a year.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Less than a year after losing their ride to space, a pair of novel hurricane-tracking cubesats have been delivered into orbit for NASA.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force wants industry feedback on its new approach to buying satellites for its space test experiments.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Momentus’ Vigoride-5 space tug has raised its orbit using its microwave electrothermal thruster, a propulsion system that uses distilled water as a propellant.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
While much of NASA’s future human exploration focus falls toward deep space, the agency is not turning its back on low Earth orbit.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic plans to return to space later this month with a fully crewed test flight of the refurbished SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
China’s secretive “reusable test spacecraft” returned to Earth on May 8 after 276 days in orbit, state media Xinhua has reported.
Space

By Guy Norris
The rocket-engine-maker mulls next-gen propulsion plans as certification tests of the new-build RS-25 reach the halfway point.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The SpaceX Crew Dragon switched ISS docking ports May 6 to make room for Axiom Space’s second private astronaut mission and a later a SpaceX cargo mission.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin Space will reorganize itself around 3 focus areas: commercial civil space, national security space and strategic and missile defense systems.
Space

By Guy Norris
Test and development of smaller Bantam engines has been underway for around a decade.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Satellite launch startup Orbex has begun construction of its spaceport on the north coast of mainland Scotland.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
The first all-new RS-25 built in over 15 years incorporates improvements Aerojet introduced into the refurbished former space shuttle RS-25s for SLS flights.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

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