Space Symposium 2024

By Brian Everstine
The Space Force is moving more into the mission, which it is calling tactical surveillance, reconnaissance and tracking.
Space Symposium

By Garrett Reim
Max Space sees its inflatable structures as useful for building orbiting space stations in Earth orbit, but habitats in cislunar space, on the Moon and Mars.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
The document identifies the specific missions it wants to focus on for increasing commercial capabilities.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
The initiative allows services to spend up to $100 million for early development activities up to the preliminary design review stage.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz
The recovery is a milestone in the company’s efforts to step up its launch cadence by reusing first-stage boosters.
Space Symposium

By Garrett Reim
Vast plans to integrate SpaceX’s Starlink laser communication system into its commercial space station, Haven-1, scheduled for launch in 2025.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Space Command has extended invitations to France, Germany and New Zealand to join a high-level collaborative group on military space operations.
Space Symposium

By Guy Norris
JAXA tells Aerospace DAILY that despite the two-year delay, it is only considering some minor efforts to add “more sophistication” to some of the MMX experiments.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
The Chinese government has recently proactively shared space safety information twice with the U.S. within the past six months.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
NRO is building the proliferated architecture across different orbits to provide more resilient imaging and signals intelligence.
Space Symposium

By Garrett Reim
As part of a demonstration, Astrobotic will use an AI-enabled software program to control and monitor its CubeRover lunar rover on its upcoming Moon mission.
Space Symposium

By Guy Norris
CEO Steve Isakowitz speaks about the transformation underway at the only U.S. government-backed R&D center committed exclusively to space enterprise.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
Rocket Lab USA will launch a group of experimental payloads to very low earth orbit (VLEO) in April 2026.
Space Symposium

By Garrett Reim
The company to show how technology onboard spacecraft could be used for Joint All-Domain Command-and-Control applications.
Space Symposium

By Guy Norris
The Navy contract comes as the Defense Department faces a major shortfall in SRM production capacity.
Space Symposium

By Brian Everstine
It will result in a cost-plus incentive fee and cost-plus award fee contracts after a full and open competition, the announcement states.
Space Symposium

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space has begun initial drop tests of Ghost, a deployable decelerator designed to protect a pre-staged payload during re-entry within 90 min. of call-up.
Space

By Guy Norris
Guy Norris talks with CEO Tom Vice about the spinoff-turned-prime’s growth plans as its space defense business surges and its spaceplane prepares for flight.
Space Symposium

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. government pressure campaign has yet to produce visible results for Russia to drop alleged plans to eventually launch a co-orbital space weapon.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Space Development Agency is considering a change to its requirements for optical communications terminal for its data transport satellite constellation.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The final, 500-sec. hot fire of the EO525 development engine was carried out April 3rd at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is continuing its efforts to partner with the U.S. commercial space sector while striving to establish a human presence at the Moon.
Space

By Irene Klotz, Guy Norris
Listen in as former Space Shuttle program manager Wayne Hale joins Aviation Week editors to unpack Starship's third flight test.
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