Space

Prefire joins more than two dozen current NASA Earth Science missions focused on studies of the planet’s oceans, ice, vegetation, atmosphere and landforms.

The issue was found as part of a wider assessment of the Starliner propulsion system.

Microreactors could represent a small step for nuclear reactor power but a giant leap in the search for scalable energy sources for space exploration.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft arrived at Kennedy Space Center on May 23 for final preparations ahead of launch in October to a Jupiter moon.

The company declined to release details of the spacecrafts' size and mass.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson again raised astronaut safety as the primary pacing item for Artemis III.

The company has requested an early September launch for Tenacity aboard ULA’s second Vulcan rocket.

The heater units would be used on ispace’s Series 3 lunar lander and rovers, planned for launch to the Moon by 2027.

NASA and Boeing are working toward a June 1 launch of the CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test.

SpaceX has demonstrated an unmodified smartphone making a video call using a connection to its Starlink low-Earth-orbit satellite constellation.

The ESA has awarded The Exploration Company and Thales Alenia Space separate contracts to continue work to develop low-Earth-orbit cargo return services.

Liftoff of the Rocket Lab Electron rocket with the initial spacecraft from New Zealand is planned for 3:15 a.m. EDT, following the weather delay from May 22.

The satellites are believed to be NRO-customized Starlink spacecraft known as Starshield, a government version of SpaceX's broadband LEO network.

Launch of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on its first crewed flight has been postponed again to allow more time to review a helium leak issue.

Satellite bus manufacturer is critical to national security program but is in financial trouble.

Russia has launched an anti-satellite weapon to low Earth orbit near a U.S. government satellite.

The actions include improved tracking to facilitate just-in-time collision avoidance maneuvers and the more rapid deorbiting of large sats no longer functional.

An ocean world some 450 million mi. from Earth is a tantalizing candidate for life.

Venture capital firm Seraphim Space has announced its latest accelerator cohort of nine startups.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Starfish Space a contract to launch and operate a new space tug as part of its broader push for in-orbit servicing.

Though the New Shepard capsule returned to the company’s West Texas spaceport with one of its three main parachutes not fully inflating.

The leak initially appeared during the countdown for launch of the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6.

NASA has named David Salvagnini as the agency’s first chief artificial intelligence officer.

NASA for the 12th year in a row has been rated as the best large federal agency for which to work in 2023, according to employee survey analysis.

Chinese commercial space company CAS Space plans to introduce suborbital space tourism, unveiling a "space traveler" capsule that will seat seven passengers.