Commercial Space
Apr 08, 2022
Sidus Space, a Cape Canaveral startup proffering the LizzieSat—a partially additively manufactured, 100-kg. (220-lb.) low-Earth-orbit satellite—reported 2021 financial results that showed net loss more than doubled while revenue decreased from 2020.
Apr 01, 2022
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Mar 30, 2022
A cyberattack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network has the commercial communications satellite industry bracing for more.
Mar 30, 2022
Trade sanctions against Russia leave European missions grounded.
Mar 23, 2022
As cooperation with Russia dwindles and Ukrainian suppliers vanish, ESA is reviewing its options in launch services and exploration.
May 08, 2023
While much of NASA’s future human exploration focus falls toward deep space, the agency is not turning its back on low Earth orbit.
May 08, 2023
Virgin Galactic plans to return to space later this month with a fully crewed test flight of the refurbished SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity.
May 06, 2023
The SpaceX Crew Dragon switched ISS docking ports May 6 to make room for Axiom Space’s second private astronaut mission and a later a SpaceX cargo mission.
May 05, 2023
Lockheed Martin Space will reorganize itself around 3 focus areas: commercial civil space, national security space and strategic and missile defense systems.
May 05, 2023
Test and development of smaller Bantam engines has been underway for around a decade.
May 05, 2023
Satellite launch startup Orbex has begun construction of its spaceport on the north coast of mainland Scotland.
May 04, 2023
Europe’s space and telecommunication heavyweights have formed a consortium to bid for the European Union’s IRIS² satellite constellation.
May 04, 2023
Thai satellite service provider and operator Thaicom has entered a partnership with Japan’s Synspective to provide synthetic aperture radar satellite services.