The USAF intends to award contracts to Lockheed and Northrop to build five sats that will form the basis of an interim space-based missile warning system.

The Canadian Space Agency has selected NanoRacks, LLC, for the launch and deployments of up to 15 small satellites from the ISS as part of a student initiative.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V blasted off from a fog-shrouded launchpad at Vandenberg AFB, California, on May 5 to send NASA’s InSight spacecraft and a pair of experimental cubesats on their way to Mars.

The British government is considering establishing its own constellation of navigation satellites.

Firefly Aerospace is targeting an operational tempo of one mission every two weeks as it ramps up tests of the Lightning and Reaver engines.

The U.S. GAO has cited a troubling trend in cost and schedule growth among 26 major NASA projects, with a combined cost estimate of $61 billion.

The fourth satellite of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Based Infrared System constellation has achieved “first light,” beaming back its first images to Earth.

Engineers have completed performance testing of a prototype nuclear fission reactor capable of producing 1 kW of electricity, NASA said.