Space

House lawmakers pressed without success during a June 11 hearing for answers from NASA as to how much the White House’s plans to accelerate a human lunar landing from 2028 to 2024 will cost.

Ampaire flies hybrid; Amazon drone delivers; KLM backs Flying-V; Honeywell FBW for UAM; Uber Copter in New York; Volocopter’s urban air plans.

Eric Trappier speaks with Aviation Week about Franco-German cooperation for a future combat air system and ambitions for a spaceplane.

The Ariane 6 program appears to be on time and has received some financial support from the European Space Agency.

FAA moves a step closer to automating the monitoring of space-launch-and-reentry vehicles in real time as they transition the national airspace system.

NASA’s Health Research Program is eager to learn more about astronaut health on long-duration space missions by enlarging the number of subjects and improving data collection protocols.

The TQ-12 engine is ultimately intended to become reusable, which was one reason for the choice of clean-burning methane fuel.

SpaceX’s 17th NASA-contracted cargo mission to the International Space Station departed the six-person orbiting science laboratory at midday June 3.

Embraer goes electric; NASA seeks electrified propulsion; LEO serving satellite; shape-memory nacelle cooling; quantum interest.

Company to beef up its 1300 satellite bus for lunar Artemis venture's power and propulsion module.

NASA appears committed to sustaining a presence in LEO aboard the International Space Station or as a paying customer aboard follow-on commercial platforms.

Leanne Caret discusses how synergy of Boeing's commercial, services and defense divisions have helped the company save on estimated life-cycle costs.

Scandinavian Airlines thinks electri;, Volcopter’s Singapore landing pad; UK CAA’s sandbox for innovation; DHL’s drone deliveries, and Europe’s tiny asteroid prospector.

U.S. Air Force is sitting pretty, with four U.S. companies vying for its space launch business beginning in 2020

Greece receives refurbished P-3; GPS OCX drama continues; India launches new SAR satellite; and Sikorsky pitches CH-53K to Israel.

Air traffic management concepts are being floated for drones, spaceships and UAM vehicles.

Private Chinese space launcher builder Landspace has tested a complete methane-burning space launch main engine, laying the groundwork for a move to higher thrust.

It is time to deliver on the promises made to investors and customers.

In mid-May 1969, only one hurdle remained before NASA would attempt to land astronauts on the Moon: a flight test.

NASA on May 16 hired 11 companies for studies and prototypes of descent modules, orbit-transfer stages and refueling capabilities.

Turkey is establishing a space agency to coordinate the country’s space efforts.

The billionaire's Blue Origin space company wants to sell human-class lunar landing services to NASA.

Experts from the German Aerospace Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have not given up on fully deploying the Mars InSight lander’s subsurface thermal probe.

SpaceX has packed 60 Starlink satellites into the fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket for a trial operational run of its low Earth orbit broadband satellite network.

Florida factory features robots to distribute parts kits and to move spacecraft through work sites and test chambers.