Commercial Space
Nov 28, 2017
XCOR Aerospace, which eyed a foothold in the suborbital market with its Lynx spaceplane, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Nov. 8.
Nov 27, 2017
SpaceX is still aiming for two to three more launches this year, but the debut flight of Falcon Heavy won’t be among them.
Nov 16, 2017
Five teams are in the running for $30 million in prizes for landing on the Moon, demonstrating spacecraft imaging and mobility systems.
Nov 16, 2017
The first private lunar mission is expected to launch in early 2018, a half-century after nations raced to get to the Moon.
Nov 15, 2017
Milestone completes Sierra Nevada’s paid NASA Commercial Crew work and sets up critical design review for unmanned station resupply missions. Photo: NASA
Feb 17, 2022
Blue Origin plans to introduce a second New Shepard capsule and booster for passenger flights from West Texas this year, CEO Bob Smith said.
Feb 17, 2022
Max Polyakov, a Ukrainian co-founder of launch company Firefly Aerospace, said he handed off his majority stake in the startup to co-founder and CEO Tom Markusik under pressure from U.S. officials.
Feb 17, 2022
SpaceLink, of McLean, Virginia, has selected Houston-based commercial space station developer Axiom Space to demonstrate an end-to-end optical communications relay service for the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, which manages the U.S. National Laboratory elements of the International Space Station.
Feb 17, 2022
Orbital Sidekick has validated an upgrade to its existing hyperspectral satellite sensors and is announcing an investment by national security startup seed funder In-Q-Tel.
Feb 15, 2022
Virgin Galactic on Feb. 16 will reopen ticket sales to the general public for rides to space, the company said.
Feb 14, 2022
Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur who financed and commanded Inspiration4, SpaceX’s first private charter, plans a new venture with SpaceX for up to three more missions, culminating with the first crewed flight of the company’s Starship transport.
Feb 11, 2022
Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expect that a data repository of satellites will be operational by 2024, providing U.S. government agencies and commercial space companies with a resource to prevent potential collisions as the number of spacecraft in orbit grows exponentially.
Feb 10, 2022
An inflight anomaly prevented an Astra Space rocket from delivering four small research satellites to orbit, according to NASA.