Space

Virgin Galactic remains committed to becoming the first commercial human spaceflight provider this year, but it could entail just lofting co-founder and celebrity entrepreneur Richard Branson rather than starting regular operations as previously forecast.

Northrop Grumman and Intelsat are hailing the “historic” first docking of two commercial satellites on orbit on Feb. 25, when the manufacturer’s first

Applying to NASA for an opening in the agency’s modest astronaut corps will never be the same.

The success of the growing commercial space industry is at risk.

Inmarsat has announced its first distribution partners in Saudi Arabia to provide satellite connectivity services to the aviation, maritime and land-based business markets.

The Hubble Space Telescope operations teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute of Baltimore have been awarded the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s 2020 Collins Trophy for current achievement.

SpaceX is prepared for the final launch of its initial NASA commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. The mission supports science and technology initiatives that range from culturing human heart tissue for transplant to conserving the water used to shower without diminishing the cleanup experience.

BAE Systems is working at building up a low-profile Australian business in high-frequency radio technology, a key aim being to export skywave over-the-horizon radars.

Ukrainian engineers are helping Chinese industry with the study of engine designs.

China will launch a prototype of its new crewed spacecraft in April, the government’s Xinhua news agency reported, two months after the rocket to be used for the mission returned to service following a 2017 failure.

The company aims to produce up to 42 engines per year at the new plant.

A flurry of nine small satellites has been successfully deployed from the International Space Station, after having been launched to the orbiting science lab aboard SpaceX Dragon and Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply missions in early December and November.

How lawmakers and the administration are responding to the most surprising proposals in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2021 budget request.

If Astra succeeds in placing the DARPA-provided payload into low Earth orbit by March 1, Astra will win $2 million and an opportunity to launch a second time and take the grand prize of $10 million.

Roscomos cites unspecified medical issues in its decision to replace both freshman cosmonauts due to launch to the space station in April.

Rocket Factory Augsburg, part of Germany’s OHB group, is progressing toward the first flight of its mini-launcher late next year.

NASA is awarding eight competitively selected U.S. university teams nearly $1 million in grants to develop lunar payload concepts for the study of permanently shadowed regions of the Moon that could contain significant deposits of water ice.

SpaceX tests space tourism waters by signing up with experienced flight services company.

Often characterized as host to an uninhabitable runaway greenhouse environment, Earth’s neighboring planet Venus nevertheless offers a compelling destination for planetary scientists.

SpaceX has signed an agreement with Space Adventures, a Washington-based space travel company, to market a Crew Dragon orbital spaceflight for four privately paying passengers.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully grappled Northrop Grumman’s 13th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply capsule early Feb. 18.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral AFS with a fifth batch of the company’s Starlink broadband satellites.

The NASA-contracted Cygnus spacecraft was on course to reach the ISS with Feb. 18 following a successful liftoff from the Wallops Island Flight Facility

The budding space tourism company's publicly traded shares jumped more than 21% when investors saw a captive-carry transport flight of VSS Unity to its new commercial headquarters at Spaceport America in New Mexico.

A third attempt to lift off is scheduled for Feb. 15 at 3:21 p.m. EST.