Space

By Garrett Reim
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.
Commercial Space

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

By Michael Bruno
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.
Space

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

By Guy Norris
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.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
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.
Commercial Space

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

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

By Michael Bruno
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.
Commercial Space

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

By Garrett Reim
Ship remote control service Seafar is integrating neXat, a satellite communications service, into its remote ship navigation technology.
Commercial Space

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

By Mark Carreau
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.
Space

By Garrett Reim
It’s been a rough month for small satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital.
Commercial Space

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

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

By Garrett Reim
Zeno Power has built and demonstrated a shielded Strontium 90 heat source.
Space

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

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

By Mark Carreau
Two cosmonauts spent the early portion of their spacewalk outside the ISS Oct. 25 dealing with the latest in a series of Russian segment external coolant leaks.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The service’s broader commercial space strategy remains under consideration within the Pentagon.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The ambitious mission to explore seven asteroids is targeted to launch in March 2028.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Tyvak International, a subsidiary of Terran Orbital, has won a $4.7 million contract from the ESA to develop a nanosatellite that will deploy from Space Rider.
Space

By Irene Klotz, Garrett Reim
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is targeting Dec. 24 for the first launch of its Vulcan-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral SFS.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Scientists suspect a metal asteroid the mission will explore may be the remnant of early planet.
Space