Space

SpaceX has opened what it hopes will be a bustling 2020 launch manifest of 35-38 missions with the Jan. 6 liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a third batch of Starlink broadband comm sats.

The USAF and Boeing are working to produce a new variant of the next sat in a constellation that provides high-capacity broadband comms to U.S. forces globally within five years.

A study provides new details on a health threat to astronauts: venous thrombosis.

Efforts to better identify and assess potential impact threats to Earth from asteroids and comets with a compact, space-based IR telescope have received a boost from President Trump.

A new U.S. Army program will demo an intel-collecting system with three powerful sensing capabilities in one year and attempt to field the system on a new airborne surveillance fleet starting in five years.

For space tourism’s prospects after any fatal accident, look to the X-15, the space shuttle and extreme mountain climbing, analysts say.

Celestia Technologies Group has acquired the satellite ground systems division of Antwerp Space.

The U.S. Air Force secretary has transferred 14th Air Force to the U.S. Space Force.

Maxar Technologies has reached a deal to sell its MDA Canadian space subsidiary.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch on Dec. 28 broke the previous record of 288 days for the longest spaceflight by a woman.

The Calt Long March 5 heavy space launcher returned to flight on Dec. 27.

The FAA has agreed to pause its evaluation of a commercial space launch site proposed by Camden County, Georgia, on the U.S. Atlantic coast.

CAPE CANAVERAL — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, a commercial low Earth orbit human transportation system developed in partnership with NASA, returned

The U.S. military is immediately assigning over 16,000 personnel to the new entity.

NASA could be a year away from having a cost estimate for accelerating its lunar plans.

President Trump is expected to sign two minibus appropriations bills that include a provision allowing NASA to buy more Russian Soyuz seats to launch U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station.

Space launch provider Virgin Orbit says it has delivered a flight-worthy LauncherOne rocket to its Mojave, California facility and is poised to

Boeing and NASA were working to preserve as many test objectives as possible for the unmanned orbital debut of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner after a timer issue scuttled the capsule’s engine firing needed to reach the ISS.

Following a GAO ruling, the Air Force will have to be more strategic in pairing up best offerings for launch service contracts.

A look back at aviation and aerospace milestones that occurred over the last 10 years.

A Soyuz-2 launcher operated by Arianespace from Kourou, French Guiana, placed five satellites into orbit on Dec. 18.

Five months after being sidelined as NASA’s chief of human spaceflight, William Gerstenmaier has left the agency.

After transferring production technology to OneWeb Satellites’ plant in Florida, Airbus is looking for other applications.

Virgin Galactic conducts sole U.S. human spaceflight in 2019.

Amazon plans to open an R&D and prototype manufacturing center in Redmond, Washington, to oversee development of its Kuiper sat broadband program.