Commercial Space

Feb 14, 2020
Flight test exposed Starliner software glitches, but NASA is more concerned about what else may be lurking in process flaws.
Feb 14, 2020
With global spectrum rights in hand and ground stations under construction, OneWeb plans to roll out high-speed, global internet service.
Feb 13, 2020
An appreciation of Clay Christensen’s theory through the lens of disruptive aerospace innovations.
Feb 07, 2020
The market for radar images and radio frequency mapping from space still relies on military and government customers.
Feb 07, 2020
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Jul 08, 2022
Carnegie Mellon University has launched an initiative to study a distributed computing architecture for nanosatellites.
Jul 07, 2022
The Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Hybrid Space Architecture program has issued several contracts to companies to develop and demonstrate a space-based network architecture for communications across commercial and government satellites in multiple orbits.
Jul 07, 2022
Stellar Solutions, a global aerospace and systems engineering services firm, has unveiled Stellar Ventures, a woman-led venture capital firm investing in the next generation of space entrepreneurs, the company said July 7.
Jul 07, 2022
The European Space Agency (ESA), its commercial partners and potential customers are eagerly awaiting the inaugural launch of the Vega-C rocket.
Jul 07, 2022
Roscosmos State Space Corp. is eager to launch new Angara modular rockets from its Vostochny commercial spaceport in 2023. 
Jul 06, 2022
Virgin Galactic has signed an agreement to partner with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two new White Knight Two jets to carry its air-launched passenger suborbital spaceships.
Jul 05, 2022
Norway’s Kongsberg is to purchase a majority holding in Lithuanian small satellite integrator and bus manufacturer NanoAvionics. 
Jul 04, 2022
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (Capstone) small satellite successfully separated from its orbital Photon propulsion stage early July 4, beginning a pioneering journey to near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon.