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A series of DARPA programs since 2016 have demonstrated the reliability of the “formal methods” coding approach on quadcopters and other UAS.

The Space Force is moving more into the mission, which it is calling tactical surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking.

Aviation Week senior editor Guy Norris speaks with Erik Daehler, Vice President of Orbital Systems and Services for the Sierra Space Corporation.

Max Space sees its inflatable structures as useful for building orbiting space stations in Earth orbit, but habitats in cislunar space, on the Moon and Mars.

The document identifies the specific missions it wants to focus on for increasing commercial capabilities.

The initiative allows services to spend up to $100 million for early development activities up to the preliminary design review stage.

The recovery is a milestone in the company’s efforts to step up its launch cadence by reusing first-stage boosters.

Vast plans to integrate SpaceX’s Starlink laser communication system into its commercial space station, Haven-1, scheduled for launch in 2025.

U.S. Space Command has extended invitations to France, Germany and New Zealand to join a high-level collaborative group on military space operations.

JAXA tells Aerospace DAILY that despite the two-year delay, it is only considering some minor efforts to add “more sophistication” to some of the MMX experiments.

The Chinese government has recently proactively shared space safety information twice with the U.S. within the past six months.

Lower launch costs—driven by SpaceX’s partially reusable Falcon 9—are driving down the cost of building, launching and operating satellites in space.

The U.S. military was ULA's primary customer for the booster, purchasing 12 of its 16 flights.

The Russian threat was first hinted at in an intelligence assessment revealed Feb. 14.

NRO is building the proliferated architecture across different orbits to provide more resilient imaging and signals intelligence.

The flight of a Russian Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome was automatically aborted 2 min. before the planned 5:00 a.m. EDT April 9 liftoff.

As part of a demonstration, Astrobotic will use an AI-enabled software program to control and monitor its CubeRover lunar rover on its upcoming Moon mission.

CEO Steve Isakowitz speaks about the transformation underway at the only U.S. government-backed R&D center committed exclusively to space enterprise.

Rocket Lab USA will launch a group of experimental payloads to very low earth orbit (VLEO) in April 2026.

The company to show how technology onboard spacecraft could be used for Joint All-Domain Command-and-Control applications.

The Navy contract comes as the Defense Department faces a major shortfall in SRM production capacity.

It will result in a cost-plus incentive fee and cost-plus award fee contracts after a full and open competition, the announcement states.

Wakata has logged 505 days in space over five missions on the NASA space shuttle, Russian Soyuz, SpaceX Crew Dragon and International Space Station.

Sierra Space has begun initial drop tests of Ghost, a deployable decelerator designed to protect a pre-staged payload during re-entry within 90 min. of call-up.

Guy Norris talks with CEO Tom Vice about the spinoff-turned-prime’s growth plans as its space defense business surges and its spaceplane prepares for flight.