Space

The Air Force and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are set for Friday’s Global Positioning System IIF-12 (GPS IIF-12). Launch will take place at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is at least two years from flying rockets from its Brownsville, Texas, launch site due to soil instability, according to a key company official. NASA […]

Blue Origin plans to perform a “couple dozen” test flights of its New Shepard rocket “hopefully” within the next two years before putting humans on board, according to a company […]

A key Blue Origin official believes that rocket reusability and human spaceflight could change the launch business over the next 10 years as increased demand for low earth orbit (LEO) […]

The ground system is “by far” the most vulnerable portion of the Air Force’s space architecture and that concerns a key service official. Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force […]

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) plan to introduce bills repealing a provision in the fiscal year 2016 appropriations bill […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Blue Origin recently achieved a pair of rocket milestones. The Air Force on Monday updated the certified baseline configuration of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Launch […]

Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] declined to protest after missing out on NASA’s Cargo Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract awards, company spokeswomen said Tuesday. Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC), Space Exploration […]

The Air Force on Monday awarded a pair of contracts to Boeing [BA] and Arctic Slope Technical Services (ARTS) under its Booster Propulsion Technology Maturation Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) solicitation, […]

NASA on Jan. 13 successfully completed the final development test of the Orion space capsule’s parachute system, according to an agency statement. During the test, engineers demonstrated that when the […]