Commercial Space
Jan 11, 2017
DARPA sees government and private-sector agreement on standards for rendezvous and proximity operations as essential to development of a successful commercial on-orbit robotic satellite repair service.
Jan 06, 2017
With great maps from many sources, the head of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency looks for new paths in an increasingly competitive environment.
Jan 04, 2017
Movement toward more frequent privatized human spaceflight is just one of the big achievements slated for 2017, whatever happens in the White House.
Dec 14, 2016
The Sept. 1 launch-pad explosion, among other problems, is putting a crimp, for now, in the big plans for Elon Musk’s "new space" company.
Sep 28, 2016
More than 40% of cubesats launched since 2000 failed in their missions.
Jan 14, 2022
Hours after SpaceX delivered a batch of satellites into polar orbits from Florida—previously an exclusive West Coast route—Virgin Orbit pulled off the reverse feat: deploying its customers’ spacecraft into 45-deg. inclination orbits from the California-launched LauncherOne rocket.
Jan 13, 2022
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Jan. 13 to deliver 105 satellites into a near-polar Sun-synchronous orbits, successfully completing its third discounted rideshare flight.
Jan 13, 2022
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company that helped sweep in the current era of startup space companies quickly going public, shocked investors Jan. 13 with news it will raise as much as $500 million by issuing new debt.
Jan 13, 2022
The Airbus-sponsored Perlan 2 stratospheric glider will carry a Thales FlytLink satellite communications terminal when it returns to flight, enabling real-time data downloads from altitudes exceeding 90,000 ft.
Jan 13, 2022
Hypersonix Launch Systems has signed a collaborative agreement with the University of Sydney to research and manufacture key components of its proposed spaceplane, including its Spartan scramjet propulsion system.
Jan 11, 2022
Roscosmos plans to start deployment of a new multi-satellite constellation this year to offer services similar to SpaceX’s Starlink and OneWeb.
Jan 11, 2022
Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, will be the base for several micro-launchers, which will help the European industry progress in reusability, according to Philippe Baptiste, chairman and CEO of French space agency CNES.
Jan 11, 2022
Start-up space services provider Astroscale has hired another startup, Orbit Fab, to refuel its planned fleet of orbital space tugs.