NROL-126 was the fifth launch of the NRO’s proliferated architecture of imaging satellites built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman. SpaceX launched the first four batches of NRO satellites to low Earth ...
HELSINKI — China launched its first Long March 12 rocket Saturday, marking an advance in its crewed moon plans and the debut of a new spaceport that will boost the country’s access to space. The ...
The LVSAT arrays, he said, would be part of a lunar infrastructure strategy that Lockheed Martin has proposed, which includes leveraging lunar ice resources and exploring nuclear fission for ...
The British subsidiary of Japan’s Astroscale is preparing for a critical design review early next year of a servicer that will attempt to remove a OneWeb broadband satellite from low Earth orbit ...
The Sentinel-1C sapacecraft was installed on a Vega C payload adapter Nov. 19. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique du vidéo du CSG–S. Martin WASHINGTON — European officials say the Vega C ...
NASA estimated it would have to cancel up to four commercial lunar lander missions and delay up to four more to fly a rover mission the agency announced in July it planned to cancel.
HELSINKI — China has announced a strategic roadmap for advancing its Beidou positioning and navigation system by 2035, in a move which could have global implications. The country plans to complete ...
WASHINGTON — The incoming Trump administration’s close ties to Elon Musk and other tech billionaires could upend traditional Pentagon procurement practices, space and defense industry executives said ...