Engineers at Blue Origin validated the “full-envelope” escape system for its six-seat suborbital passenger capsule with a successful abort test Oct. 5 16,000 ft. above the West Texas desert.

The looming U.S. presidential election and the possibility of changes in Congress have many in the nation’s civil space community worried.

SpaceX is spending “10s of millions” of company funds on an ambitious architecture to fulfill founder Elon Musk’s dream of setting up a self-sustaining human “civilization” on Mars.

The vice administrator of the China National Space Administration said the relay spacecraft designed to communicate with the planned Chang’e 4 lander on the Moon’s far side would also be available to international users operating there.

Investigators examining the Sept. 1 pad explosion have found evidence of an apparent rupture in the helium system used to pressurize the upper-stage liquid oxygen tank.

SpaceX is planning to be back in flight swiftly after the catastrophic failure of a Falcon 9 rocket, while competitor Arianespace is touting a reliability advantage for the “proven” Ariane 5.

The $1 billion probe's long journey will place it at the 1,600-ft.-wide asteroid Bennu in August 2018.

A 1957 revelation that the U.S. was tracking Soviet missile launches from a secret radar in Turkey has its roots in sleuthing of students from Kettering Grammar School in the UK.