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WASHINGTON — Commercial space station developer Vast has hired another former NASA astronaut as the company delays the launch of its first station. Vast announced Jan. 23 that former NASA

Europe stands on the precipice of launching a satellite from the mainland. Until now, the Guiana Space Centre in South America has operated as Europe’s “gateway to space” but spaceports

WASHINGTON — Space Systems Command, the primary acquisition and space development arm of the U.S. Space Force, is moving to hire contracting and procurement specialists as it tries to recover

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin will reuse a New Glenn booster for the first time on the rocket’s next launch, carrying a satellite for AST SpaceMobile. Blue Origin announced Jan. 22

HELSINKI — China’s damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft returned safely to Earth after on-orbit internal repairs, concluding the country’s first human spaceflight emergency triggered by a suspected debris impact. Shenzhou-20 landed at

TAMPA, Fla. — Open Cosmos deployed two satellites Jan. 22 to activate Ka-band spectrum filings reassigned by Liechtenstein last week, racing to meet deployment deadlines to bring the frequencies into

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin launched its first New Shepard mission of the year Jan. 22, carrying five paying customers and one company employee after a last-minute change. The New Shepard

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force could double in size within the next decade as the Pentagon increasingly treats space as a contested military domain rather than a supporting utility,

WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron launched the first satellites for a new constellation being developed by Open Cosmos that will use spectrum previously assigned to Rivada Space Networks. The