Space

The term “merger of equals” has become buzzworthy in A&D M&A, but under the tie-ups of big names are trends toward diversity and size.

AFRL's X-60A hypersonic flying testbed has moved a step closer to initial flight tests.

ESA has made progress with an ExoMars 2020 parachute problem and hopes the probe will be ready for launch this summer.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch resumed efforts Jan. 15 to replace aging batteries on the International Space Station.

“I would put us in the red-risk for being ready at the national level for sample analysis of the Osiris-Rex materials,” the mission's principal investigator says.

BridgeComm and Boeing’s HorizonX are exploring applications for a new, ultra-high-speed communications network for systems on land, in the air and in space.

Gen. John Raymond is now officially in charge of the first new U.S. military service to be created in more than 70 years.

Rocket Lab is building a new headquarters, mission control center and production complex in Long Beach, also home to rival Virgin Orbit.

Startup ABL Space Systems is working with AFRL to develop and test propulsion elements for unspecified launch vehicles.

Thales and Leonardo, plans to study potential military uses of the Stratobus as part of a contract issued by the French defense materiel agency, DGA, and announced on Jan. 8.

The U.S. military is looking for an affordable, ground-based radar system to monitor deep-space activity.

"These astronauts could one day in fact walk on the Moon as part of the Artemis program," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.

European countries want a counter to the hypersonic weapons being fielded by Russia and China.

This year’s winners will be recognized March 12 at a black-tie gala in Washington, when the Grand Laureates and Lifetime Achievement awards also will be presented.

NASA, Boeing investigating why spacecraft’s timer was off by 11 hr.

Low Earth orbit satellites that provide high-bandwidth internet service around the world are on the cusp of becoming reality.

The core booster for NASA’s first Space Launch System heavy rocket has been rolled out from its hangar in New Orleans.

Retired NASA astronaut Eileen Collins will be inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame May 8.

As NASA’s deep-space human exploration plans gain momentum, policy makers must avoid subjecting the agency to fluctuations in goals, ambiguous objectives and inadequate budgets, a report says.

Systems installation is underway on Virgin Galactic’s second commercial SpaceShipTwo sub-orbital vehicle at Mojave, California, following the

U.S. developing scientific license agreements for commercial satellite data

Launch service operator Arianespace is planning up to 20 launches with its Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega rockets in 2020.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has claimed its first discovery of an Earth-like world in the habitable zone of a neighboring star.

The Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics (Asteria) sat effort to miniaturize a spacecraft for extrasolar planet detection, has gone quiet.

SpaceX’s 19th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission spacecraft returned to Earth Jan. 7.