Commercial Space
Jul 10, 2019
NASA issues price list and guidelines for station services in hopes of luring new businesses.
Jul 02, 2019
A return to the lunar surface may require the work of multiple nations and companies with competing interests.
Jun 25, 2019
From lone GEO satellites to large LEO constellations, more companies see an emerging need for in-space robotic servicing.
Jun 25, 2019
If successful, Northrop’s Mission Extension Vehicle could seed a market for in-space servicing of satellites and open the door to manufacturing in space.
Jun 24, 2019
A carefully planned orbital ballet will bring Northrop’s MEV-1 and Intelsat 901 together in geosynchronous orbit.
May 09, 2022
Space-based cellphone connectivity provider AST SpaceMobile, which went public last year after a deal with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), will raise $75 million by selling more stock.
May 08, 2022
Maritime Launch Services, which aims to establish Canada’s first indigenous space launch from Nova Scotia, and rocket manufacturing startup Reaction Dynamics of Quebec are partnering for a 2023 debut.
May 06, 2022
Virgin Galactic is slipping its forecasted start of revenue-generating commercial operations to the first quarter of 2023 instead of this year, executives announced May 5 while revealing the space tourism provider’s latest quarterly loss.
May 06, 2022
Spire of San Francisco signed a contract to provide weather data collected by its satellites to Gale Force, a maritime routing software company.
May 06, 2022
The CEO of Avio does not see any problem in the medium term regarding supply of the RD-843 engines that power its upgraded Vega C light launcher, despite their Ukrainian origin.
May 05, 2022
Norway is investing in a mini-constellation of maritime reconnaissance satellites to support surveillance in the High North.
May 04, 2022
Satellite-based remote sensing startup Satellogic expects to grow its low Earth orbit constellation to as many as 34 Earth observation satellites by the fourth quarter, executives say.
May 04, 2022
Astroscale has completed rendezvous operations with its ELSA-d orbital debris removal demonstration despite losing half the servicing spacecraft’s maneuvering thrusters.