Space

A modified Sikorsky S-92 helicopter will attempt to snare the returning booster by its parachute line.

NASA has issued a draft request for proposals (RFP) from industry for a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) for exploring the Moon’s south pole as part of the

Bell will supply the vehicle’s feathering system and flight control surfaces while Texas-based structures specialist Qarbon Aerospace will produce the fuselage and wing.

As NASA presses ahead to transition International Space Station operations to multiple commercial free-flying platforms, the agency is also working to retain its international and U.S. National Laboratory partners, according to two days of testimony provided to the NASA Advisory Council’s Human Exploration and Operations Committee.

Spire Global has won a contract from DARPA to design a satellite that would carry sensors to very low Earth orbit to study the ionosphere.

A triple-core Falcon Heavy, currently the most powerful rocket operating today, lifted off from a fog-shrouded Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 1 on a challenging and classified mission for the U.S. Space Force.

No longer in safe mode, NASA’s Capstone small satellite mission continues to blaze a trail in space for the planned lunar Gateway station.

As well as a launch provider, UK-based Orbex will now become a launch site operator with assistance from Jacobs.

New research shows China’s growing capabilities to disrupt military satellite communications.

The Air Force Research Laboratory is developing an interface standard it hopes will be adopted by commercial industry, too.

NorthStar Earth & Space’s initial three space situational awareness satellites are scheduled to launch into orbit in mid-2023.

NASA plans to add a crewed lunar landing on its Artemis IV mission—previously a dedicated assembly flight for the lunar Gateway—and award a contract to SpaceX to ferry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface.

Small-satellite maker Terran Orbital has formally aligned with Lockheed Martin, receiving a $100 million investment boost.

On Oct. 31 a Long March-5B rocket blasted off at 3:37 p.m. local time from Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan Island.

NASA generated a nationwide total economic output that exceeded $71.2 billion in 2021, up 10.7% from 2019, while supporting 339,600 jobs and leading to $7.7 billion in federal, state and local tax revenues, according to the agency’s latest economic impact report.

The Boeing-built core stage for the second Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is nearing completion at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans.

Anti-satellite threats force military satellites to use more fuel.

Working with NASA’s long-running Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the agency’s soon-to-conclude Mars InSight Lander mission has made a potentially far-reaching discovery.

Russia has formalized its decision to stay at the International Space Station beyond 2024, the first nation to do so.

With its first two satellites set for launch in early 2023, Amazon on Oct. 27 unveiled plans for an additional, 172,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing plant in the Seattle area that will be dedicated to production of Kuiper satellites for an Amazon-owned high-speed broadband network.

What does the talent pipeline look like and is training evolving to better train for competency? Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University President Barry Butler talks with Aviation Week.

Despite differences between nations, space exploration should remain a place for civil collaboration.

Startup Quantum Space is targeting October 2024 for the launch of the first in a series of spacecraft to provide space situational awareness, host customer payloads and other services in cislunar space.

NASA and partner crowdsourcing platform HeroX are looking for help solving human spacecraft life support challenges.

The Progress 82 resupply mission is on course to dock with the Russian segment of the International Space Station on Oct. 27.