Defense

The Navy’s robot refueler is coming—even as the fleet works out integration

The MQ-25 will “unlock” other manned-unmanned teaming, naval aviation leader says.

Commercial

Orbex Secures $25 Million from UK Government to Fuel Domestic Space Launch Ambitions

Funding to Accelerate Development of Orbex's Prime Rocket, Paving the Way for UK's First Orbital Launches from Home Soil

Civil

India Strengthens Regional Navigation with Advanced NVS-02 Satellite

ISRO's Latest Launch Underscores India's Commitment to Self-Reliance in Space Technology

Science & Tech

New York to Paris in 30 mins? It may be possible.

How to achieve Elon Musk’s vision of rockets replacing long haul flights.

Defense

It's time for a new Key West agreement

Airpower, air defense, Marines’ role—all need revisiting, three-quarters of a century after the seminal roles-and-missions pact.

Science & Tech

Industry launches $100B AI-infrastructure effort to keep ahead of China

Oracle, OpenAI focus on data centers as AI race begins to turn on computing power instead of math.

Civil

Trump, Musk set sights on Mars

NASA is still developing technologies necessary to send humans to Mars.

Ideas

China’s plan to rule the heavens

A look at Beijing's strategy to relegate the United States to second place in space.

Defense

Space companies say cyber threat intelligence is often overclassified, unactionable

Space and aerospace industry feedback from a series of government-run workshops noted that such threat intelligence is difficult to translate into actionable cyber efforts.

Science & Tech

Blue Origin’s rocket reaches orbit on first flight, promising competition for SpaceX

Maiden flight brings reusable heavy-lift New Glenn closer to launching U.S. military and spy satellites.

Science & Tech

Stoke Space collects $260M in Series C capital

The company started in 2020 and has approval from Space Force to bid for future launches of small payloads.

Science & Tech

Loft Orbital captures $170M in Series C investments

The company has fetched $300 million in external capital since it opened for business in 2017 with the idea of integrating and operating customer payloads in its satellites.

Science & Tech

Crimson Phoenix acquires geospatial tech provider

The Godspeed Capital-backed company is looking to grow its lineup of artificial intelligence-powered data labeling tools for use by intelligence agencies.