Space

NASA, which recently was told by the Trump administration to return humans to the Moon’s surface, expects to achieve that goal by the “latter part” of the 2020s, acting Administrator […]

The center booster that SpaceX used in Falcon Heavy’s first flight test late Feb. 6 failed to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean as planned, according to […]

SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy launch vehicle lifted off for the first time Feb. 6 during a flight test from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The three-booster, 230-foot-tall rocket smoothly cleared […]

SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy rocket remains on track for its first flight test Feb. 6 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, according to company founder Elon Musk. “The weather’s […]

The U.S. Air Force released a final request for proposals Jan. 31 to launch five Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) spacecraft in the early 2020s. According to the […]

SpaceX plans to conduct the first flight test of its Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, company founder Elon Musk tweeted Jan. 27. The rocket, which SpaceX has been developing for […]

Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] Astro Aerospace successfully completed a critical design review of its AstroMesh radar antenna reflector for use on a future satellite project between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) […]

SpaceX fired the Falcon Heavy’s engines on a launch pad for the first time Jan. 24, moving the new rocket closer to its long-awaited first flight test.  The company tweeted […]

Rocket Lab, whose new Electron launch vehicle recently reached orbit for the first time, revealed Jan. 23 that the rocket included a previously undisclosed kick stage designed to increase orbital […]

The U.S. Air Force’s fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO-4) missile-warning satellite lifted off late Jan. 19 on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket […]