Space

By Garrett Reim
Quantum Space has raised $15 million to develop a network of “Scout” spacecraft throughout cislunar space.
Commercial Space

Aviation Week Staff
Consulting giant Accenture’s venture capital arm has signed a strategic deal with space-based Earth data upstart Planet Labs.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Unprecedented high-altitude weather triggered a series of events which led to the loss of Airbus’ Zephyr high-altitude pseudo satellite.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander into space on Dec. 11 from Cape Canaveral.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
The 2020s will be the decade of the satellite, according to a new Euroconsult forecast.
Space

By Mark Carreau
With NASA’s Artemis I Orion spacecraft back on Earth, the space agency can began to look ahead with a sharper focus to Artemis II.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The 25-day, uncrewed Artemis I mission ended exactly 50 years to the day after the Apollo 17 Moon landing.
Space

Aviation Week Staff
Roscosmos Space Corp. has completed its launch campaign in 2022, a source from the Russian space industry tells Aerospace DAILY.
Space

By Mark Carreau
"We are wrapping this mission up,” says Mike Sarafin, NASA’s Artemis I mission manager, told the agency’s final planned pre-return news briefing.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The U.S. space agency is collecting data from the Orion capsule as it prepares to return to Earth after 25 days in space.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Garrett Reim
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for ways to quickly deliver spacecraft beyond geosynchronous orbit.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has added two samples of windblown broken rock and dust, also known as regolith, to its growing collection of rock core samples.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Virgin Orbit had been eyeing a launch window starting Dec. 14 for its first UK flight of LauncherOne.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Astroscale Japan and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have launched a joint feasibility study of satellite refueling services.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
SpaceX and Rocket Lab have unveiled departments and services for national security clients.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Slingshot Aerospace has raised $41.85 million to build out its Earth-based network of orbit-watching telescopes.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Commerce Department has awarded seven contracts to companies providing space situational awareness services.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Artemis I Orion capsule still has two of its four primary mission objectives yet to achieve.
Space

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space will provide its new-generation, low-cost solar power arrays for a constellation of low Earth orbit satellite buses.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Artemis I Orion crew capsule carried out its second and final major maneuver for departing the Moon on Dec. 5.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The iROSA they installed was one of two delivered aboard SpaceX's 26th NASA-contracted resupply mission.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Successful execution of DRO departure burn is the first of two major maneuvers needed to place the uncrewed capsule on course toward a Pacific Ocean splashdown.
Space

The 1 min. 45-sec. DRO departure maneuver is scheduled for Dec. 1 at 4:55 p.m. EST, followed by a 3 min. 27 sec. Earth return lunar flyby maneuver on Dec. 5 at 11 a.m. EST.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Shifting space debris tracking to the Commerce Department will free Spacecom up to focus on the “why” of movement in space.
Space