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- Live coverage: SpaceX set to launch first-of-its-kind rideshare mission Saturday
- Northrop Grumman and L3Harris to build sensor satellites for Missile Defense Agency
- Arecibo replacement could support space situational awareness
- SpaceX’s record-setting rideshare mission a challenge for space traffic control
- French startup demonstrates iodine propulsion in potential boost for space debris mitigation efforts
- ESA and EU mend relations
- Google to shut down Loon
- Green propellant successfully demonstrated on NASA mission
- Northrop Grumman test fires solid motor for ULA’s Vulcan rocket
- Air Force Academy to produce more officers for Space Force
- Space industry executive calls on Biden to keep the National Space Council
- Airbus, Thales win second-generation Galileo satellite contracts
- Satellogic signs multi-launch contract with SpaceX
- Space challenges for President Biden: Four issues for the next four years
- SpaceX sets new rocket reuse records with successful Starlink launch
- China’s first launch of 2021 orbits communications satellite
- Policy experts named for DoD space, missile defense posts
- SpaceX surpasses 1,000-satellite mark in latest Starlink launch
- Bridenstine, departing NASA, hopes Artemis continues
- Rocket Lab launches secretive communications satellite for OHB
- Rocket Lab launches communications satellite for OHB
- Live coverage: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites
- Biden’s Defense nominee embraces view of space as a domain of war
- NASA gives up on salvaging InSight Mars lander’s ‘mole’
- Former U.S. Air Force secretary Heather Wilson joins Maxar’s board of directors
- SLS Green Run static fire cut short by “intentionally conservative” test limits
- Redwire acquires Oakman Aerospace
- Hydraulic system issue triggered early engine shutdown during SLS test-firing
- China’s iSpace advances with IPO plans, reusable launcher landing leg tests
- Boeing Starliner completes software requalification
- Aurora Insight to launch cubesats for RF sensing
- Boeing making progress on Starliner software for test flight in March
- SpaceX rolls out Falcon 9 rocket for another Starlink mission
- Watch a live view of the Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A (members only)
- Virgin’s satellite launcher reaches orbit for first time
- Virgin Orbit reaches orbit on second LauncherOne mission
- NASA studying cause of early end to moon rocket test-firing
- Video: SLS core stage test-firing ends early
- Green Run hotfire test ends early
- NASA takes a chance on Virgin Orbit with company’s second test launch
- Policy directive on GPS issued in closing days of Trump administration
- Live coverage: SLS core stage engines shut down early during critical hotfire test
- Live coverage: Rocket Lab scrubs launch from New Zealand
- FCC C-band auction raised nearly $81 billion so far
- NASA ceases efforts to deploy Mars InSight heat flow probe
- NASA proceeds with SLS booster stacking in Florida before core stage arrives
- NASA’s huge moon rocket faces critical test-firing before first launch
- Rocket Lab set to launch super-secret satellite for German company
- Officials forecast than 50 launches from Florida’s Space Coast this year
- Foust Forward | “Pro-space” lawmakers on wrong side of history after Capitol riot
- After further review, Space Force confirms selection of NSTXL to manage industry consortium
- OneWeb raises $400 million
- SLS core stage ready for Green Run test firing
- Report: U.S. military space programs at risk of losing domestic sources of key components
- Blue Origin launches New Shepard vehicle intended for crewed flights
- Hanwha Aerospace claims 30% stake in Satrec Initiative
- China moves to next stage of super heavy rocket development
- Blue Origin tests passenger accommodations on suborbital launch
- Next-generation Dragon cargo spacecraft returns from space station
- OneWeb slashes size of future satellite constellation
- French wine, live rodents among 2 tons of cargo returned from space station
- SpaceX wins contracts for lunar lander, environmental satellite launches
- Alabama’s Redstone Arsenal selected as future home of U.S. Space Command
- Boeing says assembly complete on first set of new space station solar arrays
- Blue Origin preparing for next New Shepard flight
- NASA and Japan finalize Gateway agreement
- NGA wants faster access to commercial geospatial data
- 45th Space Wing forecasts more than 50 launches in 2021
- L3Harris develops electronic antenna for command and control of military satellites
- White House executive order promotes development of space and defense nuclear power systems
- Cargo Dragon heads for splashdown off Florida’s west coast
- Aerojet Rocketdyne completes assembly of its first AR1 rocket engine
- Exotrail demonstrates miniature Hall-effect thruster in orbit
- NASA to upgrade space station solar arrays
- Iceye to launch three SAR satellites on SpaceX rideshare flight
- James Webb, OneWeb highlight Arianespace’s 2021 launch schedule
- NASA mission extension enables first flybys of Jupiter’s moons in 20 years
- NOAA proposes future geostationary constellation with East, West and Center satellites
- Cargo Dragon return delayed by poor weather
- Intelsat orders two satellites from Airbus
- China to begin construction of space station this year
- Smallsat launch providers readying for first missions of 2021
- NASA selects four small astrophysics missions for study
- FCC grants permission for polar launch of Starlink satellites
- ESA director general to retire early
- Space Force stands up new office to support U.S. intelligence community
- Thales Alenia Space given €296 million contract to build European Gateway module
- SpaceX delivers for Turkey in first launch of 2021
- SpaceX launches Turksat 5A
- Arianespace seeks greater support from European governments
- Watch a live view of the Falcon 9 launch pad at Cape Canaveral (members only)
- Photos: Falcon 9 poised for first launch of 2021
- Falcon 9 launch timeline with Turksat 5A
- Space Development Agency restores L3Harris, SpaceX contracts following protest
- Live coverage: SpaceX launches first mission of 2021
- Momentus delays first Vigoride launch
- China gears up for space station, cargo and crewed mission launches
- Space Force needs sensors to distinguish weapons from benign objects
- DARPA satellites damaged at processing facility ahead of SpaceX launch
- Turksat telecom satellite set to launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
- NASA sets mid-January target for SLS hot fire test
- Northrop Grumman cargo ship concludes three-month stay at space station
- NASA to conduct SLS static-fire test in mid-January
- Virgin Orbit, Rocket Lab schedule first launches of 2021
- Head of U.S. Strategic Command blasts GBSD critics: ‘Minuteman 3 cannot be life-extended’
- Photos: Soyuz launches French military satellite
- Delta Air Lines adds Viasat in-flight connectivity service
- AAC Clyde subsidiary Hyperion to fly CubeCAT laser terminal
- U.S. companies, led by SpaceX, launched more than any other country in 2020
- SpinLaunch expands New Mexico test site
- Spacety shares first images from small C-band SAR satellite
- Lockheed Martin gets $4.9 billion contract to build three missile-warning satellites for U.S. Space Force
- Space Force’s small launch program looks to pick up pace after a year of delays
- China’s CASC targets more than 40 space launches in 2021
- Pace steps down from National Space Council
- India aims for reusable rockets, advanced propulsion in decadal spaceflight plan
- Ten companies bid for NASA small launch vehicle contract
- Chinese mission returned nearly 4 pounds of lunar samples
- Puerto Rico government supports rebuilding Arecibo
- Congress overrides Trump’s veto and passes the National Defense Authorization Act
- SpaceX wins $150 million contract to launch Space Development Agency satellites
- NSTXL’s contract to manage Space Force technology projects on hold pending review
- White House releases planetary protection strategy
- French military surveillance satellite launched by Soyuz rocket
- Soyuz launches French reconnaissance satellite in final 2020 launch
- Three astronauts assigned to Crew Dragon mission in late 2021
- House overrides Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act
- Viasat asks FCC to perform environmental review of Starlink
- Live coverage: Soyuz lifts off from French Guiana
- China launches secret military spy payload
- Two payloads orbited by SpaceX’s launch of NRO mission
- Brexit deal allows UK to continue participation in Copernicus
- Defense bill prospects unclear as House prepares to override Trump’s veto
- French military spysat set for launch Monday
- China’s Long March 8 rocket successful in debut launch
- Dealing with dust: A back-to-the-moon dilemma
- Op-ed | Not all space capabilities should reside in Space Force
- Foust Forward | A tale of two launch vehicle programs
- Beyond exits: Entrepreneurs look back on forming and selling space startups