Space launch company Stratolaunch has successfully completed the long-anticipated first flight of its 385-ft.-span, six-engined mothership at Mojave Air & Spaceport.

The National Space Foundation’s (NSF) Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project has unveiled the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.

Responsive launch, defending U.S. satellites in geosynchronous orbit and a proliferated satellite constellation in low Earth orbit may all be tools for defending against adversaries in space, but the nation needs to keep all options open through funding all avenues, according to the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition executive.

The Pentagon is making optimistic assumptions, especially regarding congressional support, in its five-year plan for a U.S. Space Force (USSF), according to sources on Capitol Hill and in industry.

UK space tech firms Surrey Satellite Technology and Oxford Space Systems have been awarded government funding to develop a stowage-efficient Synthetic Aperture Radar.

Within the next six months, Lockheed Martin plans to launch a cubesat mission to demo a software-defined sat architecture that will allow a spacecraft to change missions while on orbit.

The ability to fly helicopters on Mars could make possible future exploration of the red planet’s most hazardous terrain or areas off limits to humans because of planetary protection concerns.

NASA has outlined a three-step strategy for achieving a sustained human return to the Moon’s surface by 2028.