Supporters of establishing a commercial spaceport in Camden, Georgia, received a minor boost June 17 when the FAA issued a final environmental impact statement that endorsed the latest slimmed-down proposal as a “preferred alternative.”
The U.S. Space Force and SpaceX has launched the fifth GPS III satellite from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral, marking the first time a national security space launch reused a booster.
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency on June 16 were prevented from equipping the International Space Station (ISS) with the first of six planned Roll Out Solar Arrays, due to a spacesuit issue and hardware misalignment.
Boeing is teaming with Germany’s Lufthansa Technik and defense electronics company ESG to provide support for a potential German purchase of the P-8 Poseidon maritime-patrol aircraft.
Russia says it is ready to discuss the future of the International Space Station (ISS) despite earlier threats to withdraw from the program after 2024.
The U.S. Air Force has formally begun the search for companies interested in participating in a KC-Y Bridge Tanker program to supplement the refueler fleet once KC-46A production ends.
A request for information published on June 14 by the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) gives industry until July 7 to submit ideas for UAS swarms.
The UK and Australia gave up their unrefueled long-range strike capacity decades ago, but the introduction of the stealthy B-21 by the U.S. Air Force in mid-decade offers another opportunity to add a new bomber.
Russian intends to fly cosmonauts to the Chinese Space Station, launching Soyuz capsules from its own Vostochny Cosmodrome or Europe’s Kourou, French Guiana, spaceport, though neither site has yet supported a human spaceflight, the head of Roscosmos, the Russian State Space Corp., said on June 15.
