NASA

By Guy Norris
Lockheed Martin says the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return spacecraft is healthy and on track for a pinpoint atmospheric Earth reentry over Utah on Sept. 24.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The agency plans to make a single award for a U.S. Deorbit Vehicle on April 18, 2024, a solicitation posted on NASA's procurement website shows.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche mission is being prepared for launch to explore a metal-rich, main belt asteroid.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will pass the one-year mark in space on Sept. 21. His return to Earth is set for Sept. 27.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Walther Pelzer, the director general of the German Space Agency, participated in a signing ceremony.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Soyuz MS-24 crew capsule autonomously docked to the International Space Station on Sept. 15.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA has reversed course and decided to release the name of the person assigned to oversee research into unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA pledged to be transparent in its data, but it declined to identify the director to shield him or her from potential harassment.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA is working with at least six companies interested in operating orbital outposts.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The previous record was set by fellow NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The four crewmembers plan to spend up to 14 days aboard the orbital lab.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Three of NASA’s four Crew-6 astronauts who recently returned from the International Space Station expressed satisfaction with their contributions.
Space

By Graham Warwick
NASA-funded multiuniversity project builds and tests an integrated modular motor drive for electric aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
After a year’s delay to resolve software issues, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is poised to explore a namesake asteroid.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The program, known as Silent Barker, consists of at least two launches, each with multiple payloads.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has declared the Mars Oxygen-Generating Experiment (MOXIE) launched aboard the Mars Perseverance rover mission a success.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA officials have acknowledged the evolving Space Launch System rocket is unaffordable at current cost levels.
Space

By Joe Anselmo, Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
Editors discuss NASA’s recent contract awards to study tech for high-speed airliners—and the one supersonic project that is still pushing forward, Boom.
Check 6

By Guy Norris
Building on good results of initial 4,000-lb. demonstrator RDRE engines, NASA says larger pressure-gain rockets hold promise for future space missions.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
NASA says it will pursue recommendations from an agency inspector general audit report of its Earth System Science Pathfinder Program.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Three women astronaut candidates from 1978 observed the milestone and encouraged those from all backgrounds to follow their dreams.
Space

By Guy Norris
Previous work on hypersonic accelerator and high-speed patent provide possible clues as to GE’s ambitions for rotating detonation technology.
Emerging Technologies

By Irene Klotz
NASA says a $1.2 billion mission to learn more about the metal-rich asteroid Psyche is on track for launch on Oct. 5 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Companies work to track millions of pieces of space junk and plan for their incineration.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Spire Global has won a $4.6 million, 12-month NASA contract to develop a microwave sounder device for the NOAA Near-Earth Orbit Network satellite constellation.
Commercial Space