Space

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has launched a satellite that carries an imaging spectrometer developed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Tanager-1, the first satellite of the Carbon Mapper Coalition,...

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command partnered with Space Norway in launching two Enhanced Polar System - Recapitalization payloads to enhance communications coverage over the Arctic region. The SSC said Thursday it launched...

The Space Development Agency has selected two aerospace companies to develop 20 Tranche 2 Transport Layer, or T2TL, Gamma prototype space vehicles. York Space Systems and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems will receive...

NASA’s science team has deployed a new quantum-based tool at the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Lab to measure forces such as gravity and magnetic fields that could support advancing...

NASA recently launched the 2025 Human Lander Challenge, or HuLC, a competition aimed at leveraging cryogenic liquid storage in human landing systems for future space missions beyond low Earth orbit. The government...

The Office of Inspector General within the Department of Commerce has recommended revising the Office of Space Commerce’s processes to speed up development of the Traffic Coordination System for Space—a.k.a....

SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and a division within AFWERX, has commenced its second Innovate to Accelerate, or I2A, cohort in line with efforts to boost the development...

NASA has posted a request for information to identify U.S. organizations interested in using the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover for lunar missions. VIPER was developed to map the distribution...

NASA has concluded its Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer—a.k.a. NEOWISE—mission after more than a decade of scanning for asteroids and comets in space. On Thursday, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, said missile defeat effects, space fires, assured telemetry, tracking and commanding architecture and space systems cyber defense...