A new NASA satellite will test critical technologies for storing and transferring super-chilled, cryogenic fuels in space in order to help astronauts reach the moon and potentially Mars someday. The Liquid Oxygen Flight demonstration (LOXSAT) will launch to orbit around the Earth later this year to test the fluid management capabilities that will be needed to maintain cryogenic fuels in microgravity,

The space agency released a video of its experimental aircraft performing a series of maneuvers as it soared over California’s Mojave desert. The X-59, built by aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin, is designed to break the sound barrier without the explosive, thunder-like clap that comes with traveling at supersonic speeds.

NASA has reclassified Boeing’s 2024 CST-Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) as a Type A mishap and cited agency leadership failings that compromised the safety of two NASA astronauts assigned to the mission. “The path we took did not reflect NASA at its ...