Iridium Next, Iridium’s replacement constellation with improved capability for global communications, is close to completion.

China’s Beidou 3 satellite navigation system may be completed in the first half of 2020, earlier than expected.

DARPA has returned to the stratospheric domain with a project aimed at demonstrating that a lighter-than-air balloon can drift between wind layers to navigate at altitudes up to 90,000 ft. for days or weeks at a time.

The small hole in one of the Soyuz capsules parked at the ISS has been patched, but the mystery about what caused it is deepening daily on Earth.

Virgin Orbit is on the verge of flying its LauncherOne rocket under the wing of the company’s modified Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft for the first time.

Stratolaunch Systems has unveiled details of the vehicles it is developing for deployment from the very large carrier aircraft in the final stages of preflight testing.

Stratolaunch Systems rolled out its giant twin-fuselage, air-launch rocket carrier aircraft in California for more preflight tests on Aug 3.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis now supports creating a sixth U.S. armed service, known as Space Force.