Virgin Galactic’s attempt to make the first sub-orbital space flight from its Spaceport America base in New Mexico was thwarted on Dec 12. by an…

British satellite operator Inmarsat has puts its very-high-throughput GX5 satellite into commercial service, boosting inflight broadband capacity for its commercial and business aircraft customers in Europe and the Middle East.

The U.S. director of national intelligence announced that the nation is creating an Intelligence Community Commercial Space Council, during a Dec. 9 meeting of the National Space Council.

A SpaceX Starship prototype, powered for the first time by a trio of liquid oxygen- and methane-burning Merlin engines, crashed during a landing…

UK venture capital outfit Octopus Ventures and investment firm BGF joined existing Orbex investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Heartcore Capital and Elecnor S.A. in a new funding round for the launch company. 

The Federal Communications Commission on Dec. 7 selected 180 companies to participate in the first phase of an ambitious project to bring high-speed internet to rural communities in the U.S.

NASA has awarded four companies contracts to collect samples of lunar regolith, then transfer ownership to the agency, not for return to Earth necessarily but to expand the legal and regulatory framework for commercial space activities on the Moon and beyond.

Aspiring small satellite launch service and logistics provider Aevum has unveiled an 80-ft.-long, 60-ft. wingspan unmanned aircraft system to serve as the reusable first stage of a three-stage, autonomous launch system that aims to cut costs and dramatically reduce the time needed to plan and execute missions.