Space

By Jen DiMascio
Intelsat is driving innovation in the way it transmits data to smaller and smaller terminals and in its business models.
Commercial Space

The U.S. Air Force wants to lease commercial bandwidth to build an agile, resilient communications network for the modern battlefield.
Connected Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
DARPA goes smallsat; Lockheed’s ship-based laser; Safran hybrid power demo; Boeing Australia autonomy initiative; Fortem’s radar-toting DroneHunter.
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
Michigan-based Orbion is aiming to fly Hall effect thruster on smallsat in 2019.
Program Management

By Jen DiMascio
Even though the DOD plans to spend over $8 billion on space in fiscal 2019, those in Congress and experts on space and budgeting say the U.S. needs to do more.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Megaconstellations of broadband satellites are expected to join flocks of cubesats in increasingly crowded low Earth orbit.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Irene Klotz
TESS expected to find targets for future exoplanet atmospheric studies by James Webb Space Telescope.
Space

The service is readying for a great-power conflict by accelerating development of a next-generation fighter family and redefining battle management.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
National Space Council tackles regulatory reform to bolster U.S. commercial space industry.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Bigelow Aerospace plans to stand up the Bigelow Space Operations venture and exercise a cooperative agreement with Casis.
Space

By Graham Warwick
A look inside NASA’s fiscal 2019 aeronautics budget: low-boom supersonics; electric propulsion; urban air mobility.
Aerospace

By Carole Rickard Hedden
These exceptional aerospace students are honored by Aviation Week and the AIAA for their academic accomplishements and extracuriccular activities.
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
At this point, the Outer Space Treaty legally applies only to countries, not commercial companies.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The White House budget directs the space agency to wean from the International Space Station by 2025 and use commercial outposts instead.
Space

By Bill Carey
Once the new constellation of 66 Iridium Next satellites is in place, Aireon plans to begin providing oceanic surveillance service.
Connected Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
Company plans ‘hopper’ tech development program for interplanetary spaceship.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Delivery of a sports car into space is a light touch, but the low-cost, privately developed rocket signals changing times for industry. Photo: John Kraus
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
`The prolonged coast of the second stage is designed to dispatch Musk’s red Tesla roadster on a whimsical voyage around the sun.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The first privately funded heavy-lift rocket ushers in a new way of doing business.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Artificial gravity hovers like an enigma over real-life U.S. ambitions of returning to the Moon before pressing on to Mars and beyond.
Space

This year’s winners will be recognized March 1 at a black-tie gala in Washington, when four Grand Laureates also will be awarded.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio
Russia EW work bears fruit, Germany sets up heavy-lift helo competition, SSL wins USAF space study work, Canada buys naval self-defense system support package.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared off its Cape Canaveral launch pad Jan. 31 to put a communications satellite into orbit for SES and Luxembourg.
Space

By Irene Klotz
In January 1958, after initial failures with Vanguard and U.S.S.R. success with Sputnik, the U.S. made it into orbit.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Preliminary fiscal 2019 spending plan also aims to end direct funding of space station in 2025.
Space