The 2014 International Astronautical Congress (IAC2014) kicked off in Toronto, Canada today (September 29). The highlight was a panel of space agency heads from around the world, but the biggest …
Here is our list of space policy events for the next TWO weeks and any insight we can offer about them. Congress returns on November 12. During the Week We …
This story has been updated throughout. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has filed a protest over NASA’s award of the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCAP) contracts to Boeing and SpaceX last …
UPDATE 2, September 25, 10:15 pm ET: Soyuz TMA-14M successfully docked with the ISS at 10:11 pm EDT. (Further update: the port solar array became unstuck and deployed after docking.) …
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC’s) Space Systems division laid off about 10 percent of its Dream Chaser workforce after losing NASA’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCAP) contract last week, but is …
India’s first mission to Mars, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), successfully went into orbit about Mars tonight (September 23) Eastern Daylight Time (September 24 local time in India). It joins …
India’s first Mars spacecraft, Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), is on track to join NASA’s newly-arrived MAVEN spacecraft in Mars orbit tonight Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). MAVEN successfully entered Mars orbit …
Here is our list of events for the next TWO weeks, September 21-October 3, 2014, starting with MAVEN’s arrival at Mars tonight (Sunday). Congress is in recess until November 12. During the …
SpaceX will break ground for its new launch site near Brownsville, TX on Monday, September 22, 2014. It will cap quite a busy week-long period for the entrepreneurial space launch …
UPDATE 2: September 21, 2014. SpaceX CRS-4 was successfully launched at 1:52 am EDT today. UPDATE: September 20, 2014. The launch was scrubbed due to weather just after 1:30 pm …