RIP, MarCO! The world's first cubesats to Mars are gone for good By Meghan Bartels In September 2019, NASA started the second half of an epic game of Marco Polo; early this month the agency declared it over for good.
Relativity Space will 3D-print rockets at new autonomous factory in Long Beach, California By Mike Wall The company aims to revolutionize rocketry via 3D printing and intelligent automation.
Two private satellites just docked in space in historic first for orbital servicing By Elizabeth Howell In a historic first for satellite operations, one spacecraft "helper" docked with a working satellite to provide life-extension services.
NASA picks moon catapults, lasers, electricity and other wild lunar projects for student contest By Elizabeth Howell NASA has awarded nearly $1 million to student teams looking to deploy robots, towers and other small vehicles alongside moon-roving astronauts.
DARPA's hypersonic 'Glide Breaker' could blast missile threats out of the sky By Elizabeth Howell Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop "enabling technologies" for DARPA's Glide Breaker program under a newly announced contract, which is worth up to $19.6 million.
Satellite 'license plates' and re-igniting rocket fuel could head off space junk crashes By Mindy Weisberger In low Earth orbit's growing "space junkyard," new technologies could reduce the risk of collisions.
Trump's 2021 NASA budget request supports X-59 experimental supersonic jet development By Chelsea Gohd NASA renews funding support for their Lockheed Martin-built experimental supersonic X-plane, which the agency says will make its inaugural flight in 2022.
Space Force gets $15.4 billion in 2021 budget request By Mike Wall That's about 60% of what the White House allocates to NASA.
NASA's experimental X-59 supersonic jet could be built by the end of 2020 By Chelsea Gohd NASA's experimental, supersonic X-plane is on a fast track to flying.
SpaceX just destroyed a huge tank for its Starship on purpose. Here's the video! By Hanneke Weitering A prototype of SpaceX's Starship Mars-colonization spacecraft blew its lid in a crucial pressure test late Tuesday night (Jan. 28).
'Assembler' robots could build solar arrays and more on the moon By Elizabeth Howell Could robots help power NASA's quest to return humans to the moon?
These twin rovers might explore the moon together one day By Chelsea Gohd Astronauts aren't the only ones who will have to work together on future crewed missions.
A TV satellite is about to explode following 'irreversible' battery damage By Brandon Specktor A Boeing satellite is being hastily moved into "graveyard orbit" following a devastating "anomaly" that turned its batteries into bombs.
Fancy a ride on a space plane? Maybe AstroClipper will be what you're looking for. By Elizabeth Howell Startup Exodus Space Corp. plans to build a space plane to ferry cargo around Earth. Eventually, that cargo could include people, if the spacecraft is deemed safe enough.
DARPA scraps XS-1 military space plane project after Boeing drops out By Mike Wall Boeing has withdrawn from Experimental Spaceplane, a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program designed to increase the nation's access to space.
'Terminator Tape' did its job in space-junk test — and it will be back By Mike Wall One technique that could help alleviate the space-junk scourge just passed a key off-Earth test.
How the tiny exoplanet-hunting ASTERIA satellite showed scientists what cubesats can do By Meghan Bartels A tiny satellite studying alien worlds may be gone for good, but during the two years the spacecraft operated, it laid the foundation for what may become a new way of finding exoplanets.
