Space

Industry experimenting with synthetic aperture radar, mix of services from geostationary and non-geo satellites.

These projects focus on greater bandwidth—but not necessarily broadband—compared to the existing Iridium, GlobalStar and Orbcomm constellations.

A high-temperature airflow test site designed to evaluate a key technology in the Reaction Engines’ hypersonic air-breathing combined cycle Sabre rocket engine is under assembly at Front Range Airport near Watkins, Colorado.

The new launch vehicle will have the capacity to orbit satellites of up to 700 kg. Work began on the launcher a few months ago.

After a $50 million refurbishment, Launch Complex 40 is ready to host its first launch since the September 2016 explosion.

President Donald Trump is calling for NASA to launch a seventh human mission to the Moon and build a foundation for a future mission to Mars.

Experiment results on Europe’s Microscope mini-sat have confirmed a key principle in Einstein's theory of general relativity, French space agency CNES says.

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After years of study, the service may be on a path to build new satellites by 2029, but the commander of U.S. Strategic Command says that is too slow.

Air Force secretary outlines several ways it is moving faster to aquire new technologies.

The quirky, inventive chief executive of SpaceX wants to fly his Tesla sports car on Falcon Heavy’s debut flight in January.

Orbital ATK’s eighth NASA-contracted resupply mission to the ISS initiated the ambitious departure phase of a multifaceted, month-long orbital journey.

The global market was creeping toward $350 billion annually in 2016, with less than 25% coming from government budgets worldwide combined.

Ohio University students take to the air to get hands-on experience with next-generation avionics systems in a DC-3.

With 16 missions completed and two more on launch-range calendars for December, SpaceX could wrap up 2017 with more launches than any country.

Twice faced with cancellation, the joint NASA-DLR project now has a budget surplus.

In this week’s Washington Outlook, ex-deputy defense secretary cautions on shorting computing research; costs up for Wfirst Telescope; terrorism a threat.

NASA’s proposed Deep Space Gateway is gathering enough interest among the U.S. ISS partnership to become part of the evolving Global Exploration Roadmap.

NASA has cleared SpaceX to use a previously flown Falcon 9 first stage for its upcoming cargo run to the International Space Station.

Vega has been a great success for Avio, encouraging further innovation for the rocket.

NASA’s multibillion-dollar Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope is undergoing a near-term, top-to-bottom cost/benefit analysis and a descoping of the technically challenging coronagraph.

SpaceX is still aiming for two to three more launches this year, but the debut flight of Falcon Heavy won’t be among them.

The CST-100 Starliner, one of two U.S. spacecraft in development for NASA International Space Station crew rotation, is on track for a 2018 debut.

In this week’s Washington Outlook, a Senate chairman’s bill still has many hurdles to overcome and the Transportation Department brings an end to Eastern Air Lines.

The spacecraft made by Ball Aerospace is the first of four similarly instrumented ones designed to extend severe weather forecasts out as far as seven days.