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The Federal Aviation Administration announced Sept. 26 it had closed the mishap investigation into a failed launch by Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle more […]

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded X-Bow Systems, a startup that specializes in solid rocket propulsion, a $17.8 million contract to demonstrate […]

Rogue Space Systems, a three-year-old startup with plans for a fleet of small in-orbit servicing spacecraft, announced more U.S. government funding Sept. 27 to […]

A Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan Sept. 27, returning two Russians and one American from the International Space Station after more than a year in orbit. […]

The cybersecurity firm Xage Security won a $17 million contract to protect Space Systems Command networks for the next five years. The post Cybersecurity firm […]

China’s human spaceflight agency has chosen four proposals to advance to the next stage of low-cost cargo transportation system development for the […]

The Space Force awarded a $10 million contract to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab to evaluate the software and cybersecurity of ground systems […]

NASA has issued a call for proposals for an International Space Station deorbit module, giving bidders an opportunity to choose the type of contract for its […]

The U.S. Space Force Victus Nox mission that Firefly Aerospace launched Sept. 14 set a new record for how quickly a national security payload can be put on […]

A bipartisan group of lawmakers recently introduced the Space Infrastructure Act, which pursues a recommendation made by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 […]

Nick Reese is the cofounder and managing partner of Frontier Foundry, a data and artificial intelligence company based in Washington. He was the director of […]

Sierra Space has raised $290 million in a round led by Japanese investors, providing the company with additional funding to accelerate work on its Dream Chaser […]

In 1963, Boeing heritage company Hughes Space and Communications launched into orbit a 78-pound satellite called Syncom that could receive signals from Earth […]

Bob Smith, chief executive of Blue Origin, will resign from the company in December and be replaced by Dave Limp, the Amazon executive who had been overseeing […]

Yahsat is considering expanding into new satellite markets after the UAE government made a $5.1 billion pledge to buy broadband services from the Emirati fleet […]

Astroscale has signed an agreement with the U.S. Space Force to co-invest in an on-orbit refueling vehicle. The post U.S. Space Force and Astroscale to […]

Beijing’s government intends to support commercial aerospace and satellite constellations and applications in a plan to promote industries of the future. The […]

A capsule from a NASA spacecraft landed in the Utah desert Sept. 24, completing a seven-year mission to return samples from a near Earth asteroid. The post […]

The U.S. Space Force for the second time has taken ownership of a retired National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellite to fill gaps in […]

After a slow start, the Commerce Department says it is making progress on establishing a civil space traffic coordination system that will rely on both […]

The Department of the Air Force said that WGS-12 meets specific needs that cannot be met by commercial alternatives. The post Air Force validates Boeing’s […]

A NASA spacecraft is on course to return samples from an asteroid to Earth in less than two days as teams prepare for a variety of both technical and fiscal […]

Satellogic is relocating from Uruguay to the United States in a bid for more government business as revenues continue falling short of expectations, the […]

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has introduced legislation that would extend a restriction on the Federal Aviation Administration’s ability to regulate […]