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NASA and Boeing are in the process of establishing a joint, independent investigation team to examine the issue with Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test, the space agency announced Tuesday. Boeing’s...

Virgin Galactic has reached the “Weight on Wheels” milestone in the build of its second commercial spaceship, the company announced Tuesday. All major structural elements of the vehicle were assembled,...

MethaneSAT has selected Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to develop and build the spacecraft bus for its first mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2022. The donor-funded mission aims to...

In its first launch of 2020, SpaceX launched its third set of Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, on Monday...

MDA will design and manufacture space-based L-band navigation antennas as part of a hosted payload on the MEASAT-3d satellite, which is currently being built by Airbus. The navigation antennas will...

Defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will develop and build the State of Israel’s national communications satellite, “Dror 1,” the company announced on Thursday. Dror 1 built by the state-owned...

Elon Musk tweeted a simulation of what a crewed flight to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Dragon will look like, forecasting a crewed flight during 2020.  “Crew Dragon should...

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has designated Mitsubishi Electric as the prime contractor of the new satellite for Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-2, Mitsubishi Electric announced on Sunday.  Mitsubishi Electric aims...

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico on Sunday, bringing an end to NASA‘s Orbital Flight Test, which missed its objective to dock with...

The iteration of HTS systems promise big. Here’s a short list of high-profile developments in HTS from satellite manufacturers: Thales Alenia Space: Eutelsat Communications ordered a next-generation VHTS satellite system...