Space

By Garrett Reim
Ship remote control service Seafar is integrating neXat, a satellite communications service, into its remote ship navigation technology.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman and York will build another 100 data transport satellites under new $1.3 billion contracts from the Space Development Agency.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The original launch date for IM's Nova-C lunar lander—from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket—was planned for as soon as mid-November.
Space

By Garrett Reim
It’s been a rough month for small satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio
The AFRL is leading its first cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) between the U.S. Space Force and companies outside the U.S.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Zeno Power has built and demonstrated a shielded Strontium 90 heat source.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is planning a payload resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
China has sent its youngest set of astronauts to space on the Shenzhou-17 mission.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Two cosmonauts spent the early portion of their spacewalk outside the ISS Oct. 25 dealing with the latest in a series of Russian segment external coolant leaks.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The service’s broader commercial space strategy remains under consideration within the Pentagon.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The ambitious mission to explore seven asteroids is targeted to launch in March 2028.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Tyvak International, a subsidiary of Terran Orbital, has won a $4.7 million contract from the ESA to develop a nanosatellite that will deploy from Space Rider.
Space

By Irene Klotz, Garrett Reim
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is targeting Dec. 24 for the first launch of its Vulcan-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral SFS.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Scientists suspect a metal asteroid the mission will explore may be the remnant of early planet.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin has awarded Terran Orbital a contract to build 36 sat buses for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta constellation
Space

By Mark Carreau
The QuickSounder is the first in a new generation of small, low-Earth-orbit satellites for weather and climate-change observations.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The company is developing a large spacecraft to transport, host, refuel and provide data and other services for multiple payloads.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Axiom Space is nearing completion of its Hab One pressure vessel.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus and Northrop Grumman have teamed up to bid on the modernization of the UK’s Skynet military communications satellites.
Space

By Michael Bruno
A company has announced a “record-setting” $100 million “seed” round of venture capital investment toward its proposed platform for lunar transportation.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
A team of European rocket developers are to help prove German ambitions for sat launch at sea with a series of suborbital launches planned for spring 2024.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is addressing two issues with its 1970s-era Voyager 1 and 2 deep space probes.
Space

By Garrett Reim
NASA intends to develop a spacecraft that will rendezvous with, refuel and relocate Landsat 7, an Earth-observation satellite, to extend its life in LEO.
Space

By Matthew Fulco
Space economy venture-capital investments rose 17% year-on-year to $3 billion across 103 companies in the third quarter of 2023.
Space