Commercial Space
Mar 18, 2022
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Mar 17, 2022
Starlink not built for battlefield, so Elon Musk makes on-the-fly updates to keep Ukrainians online.
Mar 15, 2022
This is the year is when the bevy of SPACs that formed in 2020 faces a deal-or-no-deal moment.
Mar 14, 2022
Whisper’s quiet drone; Avoiding satellite collision; Refueling in space; Hypersonic funding boost; and Rapid hydrogen refueling.
Mar 14, 2022
With commercial LEO satellite constellations growing tenfold and governments eager to tap new-space, lasers comms’ have arrived.
May 02, 2023
The Airbus Perlan 2 stratospheric glider is en route to South America.
May 02, 2023
Lulav Space’s engineers gained experience with lunar guidance, navigation and control via prior work on the Beresheet 1 lunar lander mission in 2019.
May 01, 2023
Twenty-seven seconds into the flight an “energetic event” caused a communications breakdown with another engine, No. 19.
May 01, 2023
The effort is using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), located about 50 mi. west of Socorro, New Mexico.
May 01, 2023
ViaSat-3 Americas, the first terabit-class communications satellite, reached orbit on May 1.
Apr 26, 2023
Japanese startup ALE plans to launch another Sky Canvas satellite in 2024 that will dispense artificial meteorites.
Apr 26, 2023
Virgin Galactic completed the first glide flight of the updated SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity from Spaceport America in New Mexico on April 26.
Apr 26, 2023
Rolls is leveraging its 60-plus years of submarine reactor work to develop and test components of a micro-reactor nuclear power system for space applications.