Space

Retired U. S. Navy Rear Admiral Thomas K. Mattingly II, who served as NASA’s Apollo 16 mission command pilot and went on to lead two space shuttle missions, passed away on Oct. 31

A new rocket engine for military uses could be repurposed for Mach 9 air travel—listen in as editors talk with the founders of far-out startup Venus Aerospace.

The SwRI's Alan Stern and two other paying passengers joined a Virgin Galactic crew for a short suborbital hop on Nov. 2.

Highly anticipated data from the Nov. 1, 12:54 p.m. EDT flyby will take up to a week to reach the Earth over NASA's Deep Space Network.

With this fresh funding round, Skyroot has raised a total of $95 million, top among Indian space startups.

Ovzon of Sweden plans to launch its Ovzon 3 geostationary communications satellite, which has an antenna that can generate steerable spot beams, as soon as December 2023.

Two NASA astronauts executed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station’s U.S. segment on Nov. 1.

The divestiture follows a tumultuous year for SatixFy, in which the Israeli startup has seen five CEOs following the death of its co-founder in April 2022.

Dómhnal Slattery has a new job as chairman of a startup looking to commercialize a centrifuge-based mass accelerator for space access called SpinLaunch.

Sierra Space is poised to deliver the first Dream Chaser spaceplane from its site near Denver to NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio.

A privately owned lunar lander slated to fly aboard the first United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket arrived in Florida on Oct. 30 for launch preparations.

An upcoming resupply mission to the International Space Station will include payload for an effort to bioprint heart tissue.

The Space Force has assigned 21 launches for fiscal 2024 under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 launch service procurement contract.

Sidus Space continues to shuffle its management with the departure of its chief technology officer, Jamie Adams, who was also a director on its board.

“We arrived at strategic business decisions regarding our spectrum allocation,” Michelle Parker, vice president, Boeing Space Mission Systems, wrote.

Ship remote control service Seafar is integrating neXat, a satellite communications service, into its remote ship navigation technology.

Northrop Grumman and York will build another 100 data transport satellites under new $1.3 billion contracts from the Space Development Agency.

The original launch date for IM's Nova-C lunar lander—from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket—was planned for as soon as mid-November.

It’s been a rough month for small satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital.

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the development of Russia’s new orbital station after a special meeting at Energia Corp. on Oct. 26.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The AFRL is leading its first cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) between the U.S. Space Force and companies outside the U.S.

Zeno Power has built and demonstrated a shielded Strontium 90 heat source.

NASA is planning a payload resupply mission to the International Space Station.

China has sent its youngest set of astronauts to space on the Shenzhou-17 mission.