Space

Rocket Lab looks for up to a dozen payload launches a year, while the spaceport is in talks to bring in more launch providers.

Funding for space situational awareness and position, navigation and timing were the biggest losers for space in the fiscal 2020 defense appropriations minibus.

U.S. House and Senate appropriations committees have agreed on a 2020 fiscal year budget package that includes $22.6 billion for NASA.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off Dec. 16 to deliver a 15,000-lb., Boeing-built communications satellite into orbit.

The ESA has released details on the active debris removal mission it has commissioned for 2025 after having selected ClearSpace, a Swiss startup company.

Airbus Ventures, the corporate venture capital investment wing of the European aerospace and defense giant, said it co-led a $17 million Series A round of investment in Munich-based Isar Aerospace.

Staging the solar electric foundation of NASA’s planned Gateway at the Moon will take some patience.

More new space launch providers could make the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, their home.

Small-sat launcher Rocket Lab will look to bring its expected first-stage booster recycling system to its new Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia.

Lockheed tests ground-launched long-range missile; Japan to keep making F-35s; Space Fence nears start of ops; NATO training center opens

NASA on Dec. 12 cleared Boeing for an uncrewed trial run of its CST-100 Starliner space taxi to the ISS.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission team has selected the primary and backup collection sites on the surface of the asteroid Bennu.

Northrop Grumman, one of four companies vying for a pair of national security space launch service contracts, has signed an agreement with Delaware

A NASA-led group is addressing the threat posed by space junk to a growing, more diverse space economy.

CEO Dan Jablonsky confirmed the company is exploring a wide range of possibilities.

After three spacewalks, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is almost ready to resume collecting cosmic rays.

S7 Space Corp. will relocate its Sea Launch complex to Russia.

The provider of bespoke space, intelligence, directed energy and cyber services to government agencies has acquired The Design Knowledge Co. and PreTalen.

The experimental cubesat will monitor aircraft signals from space to support rescue organizations.

The company behind the MyRadar smartphone app has launched a first, experimental cubesat designed to monitor aircraft signals from space and support a rapid response capability by rescue organizations.

House and Senate fiscal 2020 defense authorization bill conferees have reached an agreement that includes establishing a new U.S. Space Force.

The new associate administrator will oversee the space station, Commercial Crew program, SLS and Artemis.

NASA is assessing possible options to keep on schedule the Artemis initiative of achieving an accelerated return to the Moon’s surface with human explorers in 2024 even if lawmakers again fail to come together on a 2020 federal budget, agency Administrator Jim Bridenstine says.

Amid renewed interest for space programs in Europe, ESA will be able to fund Earth-observation and space vehicle projects.

Plans for International Space Station astronauts to conduct three high-priority spacewalks before year’s end appear to be slipping into 2020.