Space

By Mark Carreau
The future of access to space may lie with equatorial launch sites that could make launch windows a thing of the past.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Satellite developers are pitting themselves against each other to provide a sovereign, resilient military satcom capability for Australia's JP9102 requirement.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The Russian Progress MS-21 resupply capsule completed a destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.
Space

By Brian Everstine, Irene Klotz
The U.S. Space Force lays out a new approach for national-security space launches, using a “dual-lane” method to increase competition.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The FAA says SpaceX failed to file required launch collision-avoidance data ahead of a Falcon 9 launch with a batch of Starlink satellites last August.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Japan was forced to abort the launch of its new H3 rocket after the launch vehicle’s SRB-3 boosters failed to ignite.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is seeking commercial space station design feedback from the U.S. aerospace industry on two fronts.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has launched a two-phase crowdsourcing competition to develop a Mars virtual reality testbed to help prepare for human expeditions there.
Space

By Tony Osborne
European countries need to “reconverge” their space efforts, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said as he reported lower profits for Airbus' Defense and Space unit.
Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic completed the first test flight of the VMS Eve carrier aircraft at Mojave, California, on Feb. 15.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Astranis has won a contract to show its software-defined radio-satellite payload can transmit the Defense Department’s Protected Tactical Wave.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The United Arab Emirates’ first interplanetary spacecraft is expanding its studies at Mars to include flybys of the planet’s small outer moon, Deimos.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Babcock will manage and operate the UK Defense Ministry’s communication satellite constellation Skynet, winning out against competition from Airbus and others.
Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Orbit believes it has identified what caused the premature shut down of LauncherOne’s second-stage Newton 4 engine over the Atlantic.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Demand for conducting experiments on the ISS National Laboratory remains strong after 75 payloads were sent to the orbiting platform last year.
Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The launch of the uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spaceship to the International Space Station has been postponed until early March.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space’s second four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station will include two astronauts from Saudi Arabia.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The leak aboard Progress MS-21, dubbed Progress 82 by NASA, follows a similar coolant leak detected late Dec. 14 aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft.
Space

By Irene Klotz
A pair of 6U science sats, originally slated to piggyback a ride to Mars with NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe, will instead launch aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn.
Commercial Space

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

By Garrett Reim
The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract is part of the Foreign Commercial Imagery Program.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Lunar Flashlight has experienced a succession of green propellant thruster issues.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Progress MS-22 cargo mission was on a course to dock autonomously with the International Space Station following a successful liftoff Feb. 9.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Small satellites dominated the space industry in terms of numbers, accounting for 95% of all spacecraft launched in 2022, according to a report by Bryce Tech.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX is taking steps to prevent Starlink technology provided to Ukraine from being used for offensive military purposes.
Commercial Space