Commercial Space
Mar 19, 2020
Taking 18 years to fly people in space won’t cut it to get to Mars, says Musk.
Mar 19, 2020
The Air Force is expected to announce this summer which companies will supply national security space launch services beginning in 2022.
Mar 16, 2020
The 45th Space Wing sees launch on demand for commercial and government satellites in the near future.
Mar 10, 2020
The Launch Challenge, intended to show “anywhere, anytime” capability to launch smallsats to LEO, ended without the prize money claimed.
Mar 09, 2020
Norway electrifies; Boom slips; repairing satellites; GoFly unfinished; Joby flies for NASA; fluidic propulsion.
Aug 04, 2022
Blue Origin’s sixth crewed New Shepard suborbital mission took off early Aug. 4 from the company’s flight operations center in West Texas.
Aug 03, 2022
Momentus’s Vigoride-3 deployed four additional satellites to low Earth orbit in July as the company works through anomalies discovered shortly after launching the space tug in May.
Aug 03, 2022
The acquisitions mean Slingshot will be able to offer satellite operators a better understanding of the growing number of objects on orbit and other threats.
Aug 02, 2022
NASA is updating requirements for future private astronaut missions to the International Space Station based on some lessons learned from the pioneering 17-day Axiom Space-1 mission to the orbital science lab flown in April.
Aug 01, 2022
The first of two Blue Origin BE-4 engines earmarked for the debut flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket arrived at the manufacturer’s West Texas facility on July 31 for acceptance testing.
Jul 27, 2022
The mission marked the entry of a new rocket manufacturer, CAS Space, into China's space sector.
Jul 27, 2022
Deep Space Transport, a new Boeing-Northrop Grumman joint venture, is set to receive the contract.
Jul 26, 2022
The merger is set to “accelerate the commercialization of OneWeb’s fleet.”