Space

SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted the “first picture” of his company’s new spacesuit on social media Aug. 23. The photograph shows a sleek, mostly white suit buckled into what seems […]

The Orion crew capsule that will be the first to fly aboard NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket has been powered up for the first time, Orion prime […]

The U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office has completed a flight readiness review for the ORS-5 space-tracking satellite, keeping the mission on track for an Aug. 25 launch, […]

The U.S. Air Force expects its new space operations directorate to achieve an initial operational capability (IOC) on Aug. 21, the service announced Aug. 17. The Air Force also revealed […]

With NASA gearing up to launch its last Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-M), the agency has begun studying what its next generation of space communications satellites might look like. One […]

The U.S. Air Force plans to finish a study later this year on the potential impact of changing existing law to allow surplus intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) motors to be […]

The next launch of the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B unmanned reusable spaceplane will occur “no earlier than September,” launch vehicle provider SpaceX said Aug. 14. The Air Force had previously […]

SpaceX successfully completed the re-landing of another rocket following the launch of its twelfth International Space Station (ISS) resupply aircraft on Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 […]

The Air Force is pushing back the launches of two Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built satellites that were supposed to lift off this fall. Each spacecraft – the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency […]

The launch of the first Joint Polar System Satellite (JPSS-1) has been delayed three weeks, from Sept. 21 to Oct. 12, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). […]