Space

Amazon plans to take advantage of an earlier opportunity to fly a pair of test satellites for its Kuiper broadband constellation.

Redesigning and testing part of the parachute system on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will delay a long-awaited crew flight test (CFT) until March 2024 at the earliest.

Pale Blue has won a contract to provide its Resitojet water-vapor based propulsion system for a pair of 6U cubesats.

SpaceX has hot fired the engines of its next Super Heavy booster as it prepared for a second flight test of an integrated Starship-Super Heavy vehicle.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft reached lunar orbit on Aug. 5, setting the stage for a landing attempt on the Moon's south pole later this month.

The resumption of communications through NASA’s Deep Space Network follows a “shout” command transmitted to the probe by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA has reassigned astronaut Jeannette Epps, who has been awaiting a spaceflight since joining the astronaut corps in 2009, to the SpaceX Crew-8 mission.

Capture with the 58-ft.-long robot arm occurred at 5:52 a.m. EDT, with follow-up berthing of the capsule and its more than 8,200 lb. of cargo at 8:28 EDT.

Airbus, Lockheed Martin and Thales Alenia Space can take part in the first phase of the tender for the UK’s Skynet Enduring Capability Wideband satcoms program.

NASA has selected Axiom Space for a fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

The U.S. should study the design of a system for public reporting of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).

In 2021, BAE Systems acquired UK-based small satellite manufacturer In-Space Missions and now appears to be looking for more opportunities.

Northrop Grumman plans to increase the cargo capacity of its Cygnus cargo spacecraft from 3,750 kg to 5,000 kg.

The material will be carried by a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft as part of a commercial resupply service mission to the ISS.

Europe’s Airbus Defense and Space is upping its stake in the Voyager Space-led Starlab project.

NASA has moved the planned launch of the SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from Aug. 17 to Aug. 21.

The last of Northrop Grumman's Antares rockets equipped with Russian NPO Energomash engines and Ukrainian Yuzhmash-developed parts launched late on Aug. 1.

Virgin Galactic's spaceplane VSS Unity’s cockpit and structure were enhanced for higher-tempo operations and were tested in June on its first commercial flight.

Launch risks, cryogenic and uranium fuel are among the challenges facing the agencies’ ambitious DRACO space nuclear thermal propulsion orbital demonstration.

The B612 Foundation has made publicly available a nongovernment “precovery service” for the confirmation and orbital refining of asteroid trajectories.

President Joe Biden is reversing ex-President Donald Trump’s decision to move U.S. Space Command headquarters to Alabama and will keep it in Colorado Springs.

Euclid was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on July 1 and reached its operational orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) four weeks later.

Impulse Space plans two follow-on missions in 2024 after its inaugural LEO Express 1 mission before year’s end.

The award is similar to one received by Joby Aviation in April to deliver and operate up to nine of its S4 eVTOL aircraft for the U.S. Air Force.

Voyager 2, one of NASA’s most distant and longest-lived spacecraft, has lost its ability to transmit data through the agency’s Deep Space Network (DSN).