Space

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus’ plan for an ultra-efficient successor to the A320 has received a funding commitment from Paris for €300 million ($330 million) per year, from 2024-27.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The service is adding a new approach to launch contracting, as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture takes shape.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
Rocket Lab’s 42nd launch of a two-stage Electron booster lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:05 p.m. EST Dec. 14.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA has offered a preview of Sierra Space’s reusable Dream Chaser resupply demonstration mission to the International Space Station planned for 2024.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force has finished a draft concept of operations for ground-moving target indication missions from space.
Operations & Safety

By Steve Trimble
The uncrewed vehicle, which Xinhua described as a test platform, was launched by the two-stage Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. military sees orbital transfer vehicles keeping adversaries guessing.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Amazon’s two Project Kuiper prototype satellites have transmitted 100 gigabits per second of data using laser communications equipment.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force’s long-awaited strategy for buying commercial capabilities will likely be released early next year.

By Mark Carreau
Stennis Space Center has installed four large thrust diffusers in preparation for Green Run testing of the Block IB Exploration Upper Stage Artemis upgrade.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space is looking at Jan. 9 for the launch of its third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Dawn Aerospace has run a full-duration, bipropellant ground test of its Mk-II Aurora spaceplane’s rocket engine.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
UK Space Command is looking to be on contract next year for a cluster of synthetic aperture radar satellites.
Communications, Remote Sensing, In-Orbit Services

By Brian Everstine
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office is tasked with meeting critical needs in space.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force is preparing for a dramatic increase in its acquisition of military satellite communications and position, navigation and timing systems.
Communications, Remote Sensing, In-Orbit Services

By Mark Carreau
Perseverance is preparing for the fourth and perhaps most ambitious phase of its exploration of Jezero Crater.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
True Anomaly, a startup developing spacecraft for space domain awareness missions, has raised $100 million in a Series B round of funding.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
More than 15 months after a New Shepard booster failed, Blue Origin plans to resume flights of its reusable suborbital vehicle, with liftoff set for Dec. 18.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Satellite technology company Quasar is targeting the U.S. military market with a new, ground-based steerable phased array radar for space domain awareness.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon has reshuffled how it presents its space-focused forces to combatant commands, modifying a scheme to have a broader goal of improving readiness.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK government is preparing to publish its Space Sector Plan in early 2024, laying out its national space capabilities ambitions.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Orbit Fab and ispace have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing rocket propellants from lunar resources.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
If Vulcan misses its Dec. 24-26 launch window, the next opportunity to fly Peregrine to the Moon is on Jan. 8, ULA CEO Tony Bruno says.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The FAA has agreed to a pair of recommendations from a GAO audit concerning current procedures for investigating commercial space mishaps.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace