Space

NASA soon intends to lift the curtain on a whole new strategy of turning to America’s private sector for the launch of a lunar lander.

Helped by international players, the UAE has become a regional leader in space.

Link 16 is a tactical data link used by the U.S. military, NATO, and U.S. coalition partner nations.

NASA's Kennedy Space Center is still looking to become a world-leading multiuser spaceport.

SSC has awarded Lockheed Martin a $5.2 million contract to prototype missile typing and characterizing algorithms for overhead persistent infrared satellites.

Steve Jurczyk, a retired 32-year NASA veteran who served in a variety of administrative positions including acting administrator, has passed away.

The test rocket went through a complete launch countdown procedure in French Guiana followed by full firing of the core stage’s Vulcain 2.1 engine.

Resilient PNT will require multiple alternatives to the singular GPS.

The UK is to install a telescope on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus to improve British space domain awareness capabilities.

Major technical risks were retired by the performance of SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk has been named the third crew member for the first operational mission of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner to the ISS.

India’s space economy could reach $77 billion in value by 2030 from $15 billion in 2023, according to a recent report by the Indian media Inc42.

NASA has announced research grants and cooperative agreements focused on studies into how plant and animal biological systems will respond to lunar regolith.

North Korea claims to have successfully orbited its Malligyong-1 spy satellite following the launch of a Chollima-1 rocket on the night of Nov. 21.

Weak, angled signals from global navigation satellite system satellites are spawning new applications.

Both North Korea and South Korea are expected to conduct their own satellite launches in the coming days to validate their respective rocket technologies.

Roscosmos Space Corp. took another important step toward the first launch of the Angara A5 heavy rocket from Vostochny spaceport in Russia’s Far East.

The agency cited the challenges in a Nov. 20 NASA Advisory Council session.

Launcher manufacturer Rocket Lab is taking over the historic Middle River, Maryland, factory that Lockheed Martin is exiting.

The 50-year-old GPS program is increasingly vulnerable to a proliferation of tools used to jam and spoof the weak and unencrypted civilian signal.

GPS has become a household term over the last 50 years. Over the coming decades, it is likely to be subsumed into another three-letter term, PNT.

SpaceX's Super Heavy booster unexpectedly broke apart after separation from Starship, which was subsequently also lost when its automated flight termination system triggered.

It was another agency milestone in efforts to significantly step up the pace of space communications.

The spacecraft is the Pentagon’s first experimental navigation satellite in nearly 50 years.