Space

Space agency has furloughed about 15,000 personnel, but employees working on ‘presidential priorities’ will stay on job.

Office of Management and Budget directs federal agencies to draft plans for layoffs in the event of a shutdown.

Space agency issues a request for information for applicants to explain their commercial tracking capabilities.

Contracts with Isar Aerospace and Avio are the first between privately funded launch providers and European institutions.

Rocket demonstrates its first payload deployment and completes critical heat shield tests in a return to form.

Autonomous, reusable craft is designed to launch classified, cutting-edge technology for the U.S. Space Force.

Instructional course will simulate the conditions of landing at the moon’s south pole.

Company shares findings from investigations into anomalies both in flight and on test stand.

Executive decree directs federal agencies to roll back regulations for commercial launch and reentry licensing.

Two-stage heavy-lift launch vehicle sends a Space Force craft to geosynchronous Earth orbit.