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WASHINGTON — Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder used to determine altitude during its descent. At a

BIFROST is a Danish-Swedish surveillance satellite originally developed by Space Inventor. Since then, Terma, Gatehouse SatCom, DTU, and Swedish Unibap Space Solutions have joined the development project, which is financially

LONDON — A consortium of Ukrainian, Nordic and eastern European companies is hoping to raise more than 100 million euros ($115 million) to build a constellation of 70-plus imagery satellites

WASHINGTON — An Atlas 5 launched a second group of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband constellation June 23. The Atlas 5 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at

The Golden Dome initiative represents the largest missile defense effort in United States history — a $175 billion shield against weapons of mass destruction, aiming to be fully operational within

PARIS — While Arianespace is committed to moving to its peak launch rate of the Ariane 6 “as soon as possible,” it may take several years for the company to

WASHINGTON — United Launch Alliance is piloting an early version of OpenAI’s government-compliant artificial intelligence chatbot, marking one of the first deployments of the technology designed specifically for defense contractors