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Weak, angled signals from global navigation satellite system satellites are spawning new applications.

Amentum, the private-equity owners of erstwhile DynCorp International and PAE, is buying the space and defense services part of Jacobs.

The agency cited the challenges in a Nov. 20 NASA Advisory Council session.

It was another agency milestone in efforts to significantly step up the pace of space communications.

Catherine Koerner will succeed Jim Free as associate administrator of the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, it has been announced.

Installation on the external experiment platform completes NASA's first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system.

A White House official says U.S. space regulations—developed decades ago—were crafted when commercial space capabilities were limited.

The companies plan to use the aircraft as a testbed for electric propulsion components including motors, inverters and batteries.

Cabana has served as NASA’s associate administrator since May 2021, the agency’s third-highest administrative position.

The review board was convened in the spring for a second independent assessment of the mission architecture and cost.

Firefly Aerospace’s valuation has reached $1.5 billion following the conclusion of another tranche of financing in its Series C round.

The resupply vessel contains materials for—among other experiments—studies into female reproductive and bone health.

The experiment, known as Illuma-T, is among the 6,500 lb. of cargo aboard SpaceX’s 29th resupply mission to the ISS.

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

It is no surprise that Starship development is moving faster than the regulatory process.

NASA astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8, the first journey by human beings to the Moon, has passed away.

The SLC-40 upgrade has been spurred by SpaceX’s plans to launch the Starship Super Heavy from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B, but NASA had concerns.

The mission, known as USSF-52, will be the seventh for the two-vehicle fleet of Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicles.

After four years of assembly and decades of study and planning, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane is ready for prelaunch environmental testing.

Bulgaria is set to become the 32nd signatory to the Artemis Accords.

Follow-up imagery from the NASA Lucy mission’s recent encounter with the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh has revealed a surprise.

Nearly 2,000 cubesats have been launched in the past 20 years.

The demo would be led by the Space Technology Mission Directorate.

NASA has rescheduled the planned launch of an International Space Station resupply mission from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9 because of a nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer leak.

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