Jeff Foust

WASHINGTON — Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space will build a replacement military communications satellite for Spain as those two companies, along with Leonardo, continue efforts on a space joint venture.

WASHINGTON — With a Falcon 9 upper stage set to hit the moon this week, SpaceX says it is working with NASA on ways to prevent similar collisions in the future.

SpaceX’s new Starfall program offers validation and competition for reentry startups

WASHINGTON — While SpaceX says there is a “significant” amount of life left in its fleet of Crew Dragon spacecraft, the company has hedged on how long it will continue flying the spacecraft as it transitions to Starship.

Demand for microgravity research and manufacturing is brewing — perhaps literally. When SpaceX launched the first test flight of Starfall, its commercial reentry capsule, on June 23, the company did […]

WASHINGTON — SpaceX plans to start deploying upgraded Starlink satellites into orbit on the next flight of its Starship vehicle, scheduled for as soon as the end of the month.

WASHINGTON — Voyager Technologies remains upbeat about the prospects for its Starlab commercial space station but is hoping for some tweaks to NASA's plans to support the station's development.

SpaceX's new Starfall program offers validation and competition for reentry startups

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin has traced the explosion of its New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test in May to a valve in the rocket's BE-4 engine, an issue that could also affect United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur.

WASHINGTON — NASA and Roscosmos have agreed to continue exchanging seats between Soyuz and Crew Dragon spacecraft, but that agreement does not yet extend to Starliner.