SpaceX

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s return to the Moon—and future human exploration initiatives—rely on private sector partnerships.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The Defense Innovation Unit wants ideas on how to transport military cargo around the Earth via rockets, as well as ways to store military payloads in orbit.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The probe will conduct a six-year survey to answer questions about dark matter, dark energy and what the universe is made of.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The splashdown occurred as planned at 10:30 a.m. EDT off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s 28th SpaceX-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission spacecraft departed the International Space Station June 29.
Space

By Brian Everstine, Irene Klotz
Building a space taxi for NASA turned out to be a whole lot harder than Boeing imagined.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The iROSAs, the seventh and eighth overall, will be used to upgrade solar power generation aboard the ISS.
Space

By Irene Klotz, Michael Bruno
Three months after confirming it was exploring a merger with Intelsat, Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES said June 22 that the talks are off.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Astronauts and cosmonauts from four countries are to launch to the ISS in mid-August aboard SpaceX’s seventh NASA-contracted Crew Dragon mission.
Space

By Irene Klotz
After adjusting for distance, SpaceX’s new Generation V2 Mini Starlink satellites are 12 times less luminous than previous generation Starlink spacecraft.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Spire Global launched a pair of 6U cubesats with laser communications payloads aboard the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission on June 12.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Ariane 6 delays and problems with Vega C leave European launch industry mostly grounded.
Paris Air Show

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg installed a fifth ISS Roll Out Solar Array on the International Space Station’s lengthy solar power truss.
Space

By Garrett Reim
OneWeb and Eutelsat demonstrate for NATO the ability to connect their respective low-Earth-orbit and geostationary-orbit satellites to a single mobile terminal.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Astronauts will be exploring the lunar south pole, which promises to yield discoveries about how the Solar System formed.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Safran CEO Olivier Andries stresses risk- and revenue-sharing as part of sector reorganization for future launches following Ariane 6 program delays.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Matthew Fulco
Heavy state intervention could weigh down China’s plans to dominate commercial space.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s 28th NASA-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the ISS docked autonomously to the orbital lab’s U.S. segment Harmony module early June 6.
Space

By Irene Klotz
On its second private charter to the ISS, Axiom flies a pair of Saudi astronauts.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
NASA’s LROC has captured what appears to be images of debris scattered on the Moon at the planned landing site of ispace’s lunar lander, which crashed in April.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space’s second, four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station docked to the space-facing port on the Harmony module on Monday.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
Blue Origin has succeeded on its second try to win a NASA contract to ferry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface.
Space

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

By Mark Carreau
The MTH is a conceptual component of a lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway.
Space

By Irene Klotz
A second Great Observatory catches the eye of the fledgling in-space services industry.
Space