Polaris Dawn crewed mission could suffer additional delays Original Publication Date: 2022-10-25 11:05 Polaris Program originally planned its first Crew Dragon mission to fly in the fourth quarter of this year. The four-person crew will perform the first spacewalk from a Crew Dragon spacecraft. ...

Falcon 9 leading candidate to launch European science mission Original Publication Date: 2022-10-18 07:55 Euclid was to launch on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana in 2023. Plans changed after Russia invaded in Ukraine in February, leading to a series of sanctions. Russia halting Soyuz launches ...

NASA outlines case for making sole-source SLS award to Boeing-Northrop joint venture Original Publication Date: 2022-10-17 09:46 NASA published Oct. 12 a document formally known as the Justification for Other Than Full and Open Competition. The document explains NASA’s rationale to sole-source ...

Firefly says Alpha launch a success despite payload reentries Original Publication Date: 2022-10-10 11:26 Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket lifted off Oct. 1 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the second flight of the vehicle. The launch carried three satellite payloads: a 3U ...

As DoD grows more reliant on space industry, it needs to define the relationship Original Publication Date: 2022-09-22 21:24 The conflict in Ukraine has shed light on the value of commercial satellites for national security. There are still open questions on how the military will work with ...

Shanghai rocket maker considering developing huge methane-fueled rockets Original Publication Date: 2022-09-18 12:21 China is looking at developing a series of partially and fully-reusable launch vehicles. A paper published in the journal Aerospace Technology outlines plans under consideration. ...

Congress asks for more transparency into New Shepard failure investigation Original Publication Date: 2022-09-16 09:17 Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Brian Babin (R-Texas) sought more details into the investigation. They wrote that their interest stems from the fact that New Shepard also carries ...

Bandwidth-hungry regional satellite operators hunting for options Original Publication Date: 2022-09-14 14:17 Regional satellite operators are looking for faster ways to add more capacity. Arabsat is in talks to buy Ka-band capacity in the Middle East and Africa. South Korea-based KT Sat is ...

New Shepard suffers in-flight abort on uncrewed suborbital flight Original Publication Date: 2022-09-12 15:18 Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle suffers in-flight abort a minute after liftoff. Capsule filled with payloads but not people fires its launch abort motor and parachute to a ...

CAPSTONE enters safe mode during trajectory correction maneuver Original Publication Date: 2022-09-11 08:38 NASA-funded cubesat mission to the moon has gone into safe mode. The problem occurred during a trajectory correction maneuver, NASA says. CAPSTONE is a NASA-funded mission to test ...