NASA and its Commercial Crew Program partner Boeing are targeting March 29, 2021, for Orbital Flight Test-2, a weeklong second attempt at an uncrewed test flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 8:09 p.m. EST on a mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), dubbed NROL-44.
An updated U.S. space policy emphasizes six broad principles, with roots in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the Artemis Accords, with which NASA is forging an international partnership to lead humans back to the Moon and on to Mars.
The European Space Agency has awarded two contracts for the delivery of the Space Rider flight model, a small reusable spacecraft aimed at robotic missions in low Earth orbit, and the associated ground segment.
The U.S. director of national intelligence announced that the nation is creating an Intelligence Community Commercial Space Council, during a Dec. 9 meeting of the National Space Council.
UK venture capital outfit Octopus Ventures and investment firm BGF joined existing Orbex investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Heartcore Capital and Elecnor S.A. in a new funding round for the launch company.
During his final meeting as chair of the National Space Council, Vice President Mike Pence named 18 astronauts to form the initial cadre supporting crewed flights to the Moon under the Artemis program.
After the SDA agreed to re-evaluate the bids in an effort to resolve the concerns by the contractors, the GAO dismissed Raytheon's and Airbus' initial protests on Nov. 30.
The sample container that descended into Australia to conclude a six-year roundtrip mission by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa 2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu has arrived in Japan.
The NASA astronauts assigned to Artemis III, the first mission to return human explorers to the Moon, should be trained, equipped and supported to carry out a far-reaching science agenda, a new report says.
The Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 7 selected 180 companies to participate in the first phase of an ambitious project to bring high-speed internet to rural communities in the U.S.
The first cargo version of SpaceX’s upgraded Dragon capsule carried out a successful automated docking with the seven-person International Space Station on Dec. 7, delivering a more than 6,400-lb. cargo of crew supplies as well as new science and technology.
An upgraded SpaceX cargo Dragon 2 capsule reached orbit on Dec. 6 with 3.2 tons of equipment and supplies for the International Space Station (ISS), including a new commercially owned and operated airlock module.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully recovered the small Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return capsule in the remote Woomera region of Australia.
