Space

Russia plans to end its participation in the International Space Station after 2024, and develop its own national space station in low Earth orbit.

Complex constellation of four spacecraft will characterize what happens when magnetospheres collide.

Long-delayed NASA James Webb Space Telescope to run tests of critical instruments this summer.

Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion Blakey is leaving her position to become CEO and president of RRNA at the company’s Reston, Virginia, headquarters, and chair its U.S. board of directors.

To fulfill its NASA contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, the company says it is on track with plans to use a United Launch Alliance Atlas V to lift its next Cygnus pressurized cargo carrier to the station this fall.

Why NASA needs an Asteroid Deflection Technology Development program, rather than an Asteroid Redirect Mission.

President Barack Obama has vowed that the U.S. would be “pushing out into the Solar System, not just to visit, but to stay.”

In the future, most astronauts will select themselves, largely on the basis of their ability to buy a ticket.

Seeing an end to its monopoly, ULA turns toward a commercial model.

ESA’s final ATV mission means Russia’s Progress freighter is the only vehicle left to reboost and ultimately de-orbit the ISS.

NASA’s human-spaceflight chief urges the private sector to start preparing to replace the ISS with a commercial space station.

Because the platform is vulnerable to extreme conditions, SpaceX intends to equip the vessel with additional station-keeping capability.

United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) plan to field a new rocket engine with Blue Origin called the BE-4 is only step one of a larger strategic plan to take the company from a sole-source benefactor mentality to competing in a burgeoning commercial market.

Hard-won data from 30 years of space shuttle missions can shape the design of next-generation human spacecraft in areas ranging from vehicle reuse to helping crewmembers survive an accident.

Data from a recent test flight of the IXV, ESA’s experimental spaceplane, is expected to guide development of reusable space vehicles.

The U.S. Air Force’s on-again, off-again affair with “operationally responsive space” concepts appears to be heating up once more.

A satellite conceived by then-Vice President Al Gore 17 years ago as a real-time whole-Earth imager, and later converted to an early warning "buoy" for solar storms, is on its way to its parking spot 1 million mi. from Earth after launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9.

With FAA approval to use unmanned aircraft for aerial photography and a deal with Planet Labs to buy satellite imagery, Woolpert plans to bring the two together to enable new geospatial information services.

Launch of a SpaceX Falcon9 with the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) was scrubbed 2 min. before liftoff.

From X-planes to the “black budget” to where the U.S. is placing its technology bets for the future, our editors discuss what’s buried in President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget request to Congress.

Galileo will comprise a civilian-controlled constellation of 30 satellites, but civil aviation authorities are skeptical that Europe’s space sector can meet navigation and communications safety standards.

Google Lunar XPrize grants contestants more time and money to meet a difficult goal.

An annual assessment of NASA’s human spaceflight programs points to safety risks resulting from a lack of transparency and a disconnect between program goals and funding.

NASA’s fiscal 2016 budget request continues to feature past policies, and is likely to experience past partisan battles on Capitol Hill as well.

CEO Alexander Serkin said customers have nothing to fear and all obligations will be met.