Commercial Space
Jul 10, 2019
NASA issues price list and guidelines for station services in hopes of luring new businesses.
Jul 02, 2019
A return to the lunar surface may require the work of multiple nations and companies with competing interests.
Jun 25, 2019
From lone GEO satellites to large LEO constellations, more companies see an emerging need for in-space robotic servicing.
Jun 25, 2019
If successful, Northrop’s Mission Extension Vehicle could seed a market for in-space servicing of satellites and open the door to manufacturing in space.
Jun 24, 2019
A carefully planned orbital ballet will bring Northrop’s MEV-1 and Intelsat 901 together in geosynchronous orbit.
May 06, 2022
The CEO of Avio does not see any problem in the medium term regarding supply of the RD-843 engines that power its upgraded Vega C light launcher, despite their Ukrainian origin.
May 05, 2022
Norway is investing in a mini-constellation of maritime reconnaissance satellites to support surveillance in the High North.
May 04, 2022
Satellite-based remote sensing startup Satellogic expects to grow its low Earth orbit constellation to as many as 34 Earth observation satellites by the fourth quarter, executives say.
May 04, 2022
Astroscale has completed rendezvous operations with its ELSA-d orbital debris removal demonstration despite losing half the servicing spacecraft’s maneuvering thrusters.
May 04, 2022
Start-up launch vehicle and satellite developer Phantom Space has emerged from stealth mode with a purchase agreement for more than 200 rocket engines from Colorado-based propulsion company Ursa Major.
May 04, 2022
MDA has made the first commercial sale of its Canadarm3 robotic arm technology to Axiom Space.
May 03, 2022
After successfully launching a 34-satellite rideshare mission from New Zealand, a Rocket Lab helicopter crew snared the returning first-stage booster mid-air for the first time, then released the rocket into the ocean for retrieval by ship.
Apr 29, 2022
French satellite startup Prométhée has contracted with NanoAvionics to build a hyperspectral nanosatellite demonstrator. The ProtoMéthée-1 will be based on NanoAvionics’ 16U nanosatellite bus M16P and would be a forerunner to plans to launch a 20-satellite constellation by 2025, Prométhée said on April 29.