WASHINGTON — Supply chain challenges that have disrupted military satellite programs, while initially seen as temporary, have emerged as systemic and exposed gaps in the U.S. defense industrial base, ...

Endurosat CEO Raycho Raychev (left) discussing commercial and space exploration missions in October with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. Credit: Endurosat TAMPA, Fla. — Bulgarian microsatellite ...

WASHINGTON — The incoming Trump administration’s close ties to Elon Musk and other tech billionaires could upend traditional Pentagon procurement practices, space and defense industry executives said ...

Firefly Aerospace says it is planning a launch of its first lunar lander mission in January, meaning that none of the three commercial lander missions once slated to launch in the fourth quarter ...

Hatches between a Russian module and the rest of the International Space Station were closed hours after a Progress cargo spacecraft docking Nov. 23 when the station’s crew reported an “unexpected ...

Optimax, the largest precision optics manufacturer in the United States, has announced the appointment of Joseph Spilman as CEO and Pete Kupinski as president. With a solid ...

Rocket Lab followed the HASTE mission with an orbital launch of Electron from its Launch Complex 1B in New Zealand at 10:55 p.m. Eastern Nov. 24. The rocket successfully deployed into orbit a third ...

China launched a pair of radar satellites late Sunday for a state-owned firm building a 28-satellite remote sensing constellation. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off at 6:39 p.m.

Managing the growing threat of space debris requires greater urgency, with improved sensor capability, filling data gaps, economic incentives and new technologies all needed, according ...