Commercial Space
Nov 12, 2019
Entrepreneur eyes an AAA-type service in space.
Nov 05, 2019
Virgin Galactic sees service starting next year and a fleet of five spaceships within five years. Meanwhile, investors and future customers continue to line up.
Nov 04, 2019
Heritage aerospace primes Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman agree to work under startup Blue Origin in quest to get NASA to the Moon in 2024.
Nov 01, 2019
It is time to balance the needs of the aviation community with those of the burgeoning space industry.
Nov 01, 2019
October 2019 may go down in history as a New Space turning point: the first publicly traded human spaceflight company and the first space holding company.
May 27, 2022
Astroscale will build its Elsa-M satellite servicer for European customers and perhaps others with the goal of a late-2024 launch after a €14.8 million ($15.9 million) infusion via a European Space Agency and OneWeb alliance.
May 27, 2022
Space Systems Command on May 26 ordered eight launches from United Launch Alliance and SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 procurement program.
May 26, 2022
LeoLabs argues that government space situational awareness capabilities cannot keep track of the growing number of objects in space.
May 25, 2022
SpaceX continued its weekly launch pace with liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket on May 25 carrying 59 small satellites and hosted payloads, marking the company’s fifth rideshare mission. Following launch at 2:35 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the rocket’s first stage returned to the launch site while the upper stage fired to place the Transporter-5 payloads into a preliminary polar orbit.
May 25, 2022
Axiom Space and Italy’s minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance existing collaboration, the Houston-based firm announced May 25.
May 24, 2022
Another lunar buggy contender is emerging, this time with an autonomous explorer angle: Lunar Outpost on May 24 unveiled a $12 million seed round, promising a new class of autonomous Moon rovers.
May 24, 2022
The Outpost Mars Demo-1 payload, an on-orbit metal cutting robotic arm, is being prepared to launch aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 5 rideshare flight on May 25.
May 23, 2022
Satcom Direct (SD) is nearing commercial introduction of its Plane Simple Antenna System supporting inflight broadband connectivity for business aviation using the Intelsat FlexExec network.