Space

It is no surprise that Starship development is moving faster than the regulatory process.

NASA astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8, the first journey by human beings to the Moon, has passed away.

Four companies have each won a contract for initial development of a prototype for a consolidated ground system for new and existing missile warning satellites.

The SLC-40 upgrade has been spurred by SpaceX’s plans to launch the Starship Super Heavy from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B, but NASA had concerns.

The mission, known as USSF-52, will be the seventh for the two-vehicle fleet of Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicles.

After four years of assembly and decades of study and planning, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane is ready for prelaunch environmental testing.

Frank Calvelli, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration, spoke at Aviation Week’s A&D Programs conference on Nov. 7.

Bulgaria is set to become the 32nd signatory to the Artemis Accords.

Follow-up imagery from the NASA Lucy mission’s recent encounter with the main belt asteroid Dinkinesh has revealed a surprise.

RFA was granted £3.5 million ($4.3 million) by the UK Space Agency.

After 11 years of cooperation with Arianespace, Avio is preparing to become a launch service operator itself in the coming months.

Suborbital space tourism provider Virgin Galactic is laying off workers to fund production of the Delta variant of its spaceships, the company said late Nov. 7.

Nearly 2,000 cubesats have been launched in the past 20 years.

The European Space Agency’s newly launched Euclid telescope has captured a smattering of sharp, wide-field images of galaxies near and far.

The type, a step down in size from cubesats, is popular for experiments and tech demos.

The demo would be led by the Space Technology Mission Directorate.

Norway’s Andøya Spaceport has opened new facilities to enable satellite launches from the High North of Scandinavia.

China’s iSpace has completed the country’s first test of a reusable rocket, performing a 50-sec. "hop" with the first stage of its Hyperbola-2 launch vehicle.

SpaceX’s internet-beaming Starlink satellite division has reached cash flow breakeven, CEO Elon Musk says.

NASA has rescheduled the planned launch of an International Space Station resupply mission from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9 because of a nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer leak.

Retired U. S. Navy Rear Admiral Thomas K. Mattingly II, who served as NASA’s Apollo 16 mission command pilot and went on to lead two space shuttle missions, passed away on Oct. 31

A new rocket engine for military uses could be repurposed for Mach 9 air travel—listen in as editors talk with the founders of far-out startup Venus Aerospace.

The SwRI's Alan Stern and two other paying passengers joined a Virgin Galactic crew for a short suborbital hop on Nov. 2.

Highly anticipated data from the Nov. 1, 12:54 p.m. EDT flyby will take up to a week to reach the Earth over NASA's Deep Space Network.

With this fresh funding round, Skyroot has raised a total of $95 million, top among Indian space startups.