Commercial Space
Jan 25, 2019
Allowing corporations to buy naming rights to NASA property and to use astronauts for commercials would cause more harm than good for the American public and for NASA as a public entity.
Jan 25, 2019
Commercial funding not only enhances great American research organizations, but it also creates them—just look at the Smithsonian Institution.
Jan 22, 2019
A government-backed company is selling Soyuz launch services from Russian spaceports.
Jan 11, 2019
After closing out 2018 with a company record 21 launches, SpaceX aims to keep the pace, begin flying astronauts and test a prototype Mars spaceship
Dec 21, 2018
Hailed as the first crewed flight to launch from U.S. soil since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, Virgin Galactic’s Unity flight sets the scene for the long-anticipated beginning of commercial space flights in 2019.
Apr 14, 2022
Capella Space has unveiled new software features that automate analysis of images captured by its synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation.
Apr 13, 2022
Air Corsica’s management team sees its recently obtained approval to adopt satellite technology as the future for landing on challenging runways.
Apr 11, 2022
The Defense Innovation Unit has released a request for information seeking commercial on-orbit satellite refueling and bulk fuel depot ideas as part of its “RAPIDS Refueling and Fuel Depot” project.
Apr 09, 2022
Axiom Mission-1's (Ax-1) four private astronauts successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) April 9, to begin an eight-day visit filled with medical and scientific research and technology development activities.
Apr 08, 2022
Artificial intelligence programs are well suited for dealing with the deluge of data generated by space systems, according to the companies.
Apr 08, 2022
The Axiom-1 mission kicks off a series of private astronaut flights to the International Space Station as part of an ongoing effort to expand commercial use and development of low Earth orbit
Apr 08, 2022
The Japanese startup said April 6 that it had resolved or mitigated most of the spacecraft anomalies experienced in January that caused it to halt an autonomous capture demonstration in low Earth orbit.
Apr 08, 2022
The Ax-1 astronauts will kick off more than two dozen wide-ranging scientific research and technology development activities with value to life on Earth as well as nurturing the space economy.