Commercial Space
May 13, 2022
After 29 months, Boeing will again attempt to fly its commercial space taxi to the space station.
May 13, 2022
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
May 11, 2022
Lockheed Martin-General Motors lunar vehicle designed to transit moon autonomously for prepositioned rendezvous with incoming missions.
May 10, 2022
With its first launch in the offing, Vega C is to start a series of key and long-awaited evolutions in Arianespace’s offering.
May 05, 2022
Growing defense roles, including responsive launch and hypersonic tests, factor in Virgin Orbit near-term capability goals.
May 24, 2023
Tokyo-based Gitai, a startup developing several space robots, has raised about ¥4 billion ($29 million) in funding as part of a Series B extension round.
May 24, 2023
Virgin Orbit will close after its assets were bought by four bankruptcy bidders including Rocket Lab and Stratolaunch.
May 23, 2023
NASA’s LROC has captured what appears to be images of debris scattered on the Moon at the planned landing site of ispace’s lunar lander, which crashed in April.
May 22, 2023
ULA returned its first Vulcan rocket to the launchpad on May 22 in preparation for a static test firing of the booster’s dual BE-4 main engines.
May 19, 2023
SWISSto12 has received a contract to build three small geostationary communications satellites for Inmarsat.
May 18, 2023
A hydrogen leak during qualification testing of a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket upper stage was not due to a problem with the test stand.
May 17, 2023
Cybersecurity startup Arqit Quantum said May 17 it will sell its satellite business once touted as a new-space partnership with now-bankrupt Virgin Orbit.
May 16, 2023
NASA plans to announce a second industry partner to provide astronaut ferry flights between lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface on Friday, May 19.