Commercial Space
Jan 25, 2019
Allowing corporations to buy naming rights to NASA property and to use astronauts for commercials would cause more harm than good for the American public and for NASA as a public entity.
Jan 25, 2019
Commercial funding not only enhances great American research organizations, but it also creates them—just look at the Smithsonian Institution.
Jan 22, 2019
A government-backed company is selling Soyuz launch services from Russian spaceports.
Jan 11, 2019
After closing out 2018 with a company record 21 launches, SpaceX aims to keep the pace, begin flying astronauts and test a prototype Mars spaceship
Dec 21, 2018
Hailed as the first crewed flight to launch from U.S. soil since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, Virgin Galactic’s Unity flight sets the scene for the long-anticipated beginning of commercial space flights in 2019.
Apr 08, 2022
Artificial intelligence programs are well suited for dealing with the deluge of data generated by space systems, according to the companies.
Apr 08, 2022
The Axiom-1 mission kicks off a series of private astronaut flights to the International Space Station as part of an ongoing effort to expand commercial use and development of low Earth orbit
Apr 08, 2022
The Japanese startup said April 6 that it had resolved or mitigated most of the spacecraft anomalies experienced in January that caused it to halt an autonomous capture demonstration in low Earth orbit.
Apr 08, 2022
The Ax-1 astronauts will kick off more than two dozen wide-ranging scientific research and technology development activities with value to life on Earth as well as nurturing the space economy.
Apr 08, 2022
Sidus Space, a Cape Canaveral startup proffering the LizzieSat—a partially additively manufactured, 100-kg. (220-lb.) low-Earth-orbit satellite—reported 2021 financial results that showed net loss more than doubled while revenue decreased from 2020.
Apr 07, 2022
Lift Aircraft has been awarded a Phase 3 contract by the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program to continue experimentation and flight tests of its single-seat HEXA electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Apr 07, 2022
The U.S. Space Force is tracking the development of on-orbit maneuvering and refueling in the commercial industry to inform how the technology could shape its plans for future national security launches.
Apr 07, 2022
Major consultancy Accenture on April 6 said it made an unspecified investment in Titan Space Technologies, which is proffering software in support of in-orbit experiments and demonstrations, starting with adaptive immune response, carbon capture and biomedical applications.