NASA

By Mark Carreau
Sergey Prokopyev and Dmetri Petelin deployed and activated a radiator moved from the Rassvet module to Nauka during an April excursion.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The team aims to do an end run around rival commercial space stations.
Commercial Space

Sebright speaks with Aviation Week editors about the countries’ evolving relationship in defense and aerospace.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
The San Francisco-based company is using a Cessna 208B Caravan for the flight tests.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA is seeking industry input in developing a strategy for a commercial, controlled end-of-life deorbit of the International Space Station.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Rocket Lab was awarded another NASA contract to launch a second multi-cubesat mission to demonstrate autonomous swarm technologies.
Space

By Garrett Reim, Irene Klotz
Astroscale U.S. and Momentus have submitted a joint bid to boost NASA’s Hubble space telescope to a higher orbit using a robotic spacecraft.
Space

By Michael Bruno
CEO Bob Pragada said the corporate divorce will stand up two well-established publicly traded companies.
Supply Chain

By Irene Klotz
Less than a year after losing their ride to space, a pair of novel hurricane-tracking cubesats have been delivered into orbit for NASA.
Space

By Mark Carreau
While much of NASA’s future human exploration focus falls toward deep space, the agency is not turning its back on low Earth orbit.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The SpaceX Crew Dragon switched ISS docking ports May 6 to make room for Axiom Space’s second private astronaut mission and a later a SpaceX cargo mission.
Space

By Guy Norris
Test and development of smaller Bantam engines has been underway for around a decade.
Commercial Space

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

By Mark Carreau
The multiyear MSR mission is being jointly led by NASA and the European Space Agency.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter will be repositioned for a new campaign following completion of its 50th sortie.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Two astronauts from NASA and the UAE conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on April 28.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Startup fails in attempt to be the first private company to land on the Moon.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says that the troubled initial test launch of SpaceX’s Super Heavy/Starship combination has added uncertainty to Artemis III.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Operating under unfunded Space Act Agreements, the companies will work for periods of 12 to 24 months.
Space

By Garrett Reim
During the test campaign, Reliable Robotics coordinated encounters of 2 of its aircraft in California while data was being collected by FAA ground-based radar.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
With NASA’s Artemis program beginning to unfold, the agency and its supporters have launched an unprecedented focus on sustainability.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has devised a 10-year strategy for advancing efforts to protect the Earth from a devastating encounter with a Near Earth asteroid or comet.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Northrop Grumman’s 18th NASA contracted resupply mission capsule departed the ISS, filled with trash.
Space

By Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
U.S. Air Force future tanker interest and commercial midmarket demand combine to provide a long-awaited potential launch window for a blended wing body concept.
Emerging Technologies

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