Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite in Europe is still under attack more than a year after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The spacecraft will be designed to perform a wide range of robotic operations on existing satellites.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Space Forge has unveiled additional details about its unfolding, “origami” heat shield for its ForgeStar re-entry vehicle.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Vast and SpaceX plan to launch a commercial space station, named Haven-1, as soon as August 2025.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim, Irene Klotz
Astroscale U.S. and Momentus have submitted a joint bid to boost NASA’s Hubble space telescope to a higher orbit using a robotic spacecraft.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Momentus’ Vigoride-5 space tug has raised its orbit using its microwave electrothermal thruster, a propulsion system that uses distilled water as a propellant.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
While much of NASA’s future human exploration focus falls toward deep space, the agency is not turning its back on low Earth orbit.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Satellite launch startup Orbex has begun construction of its spaceport on the north coast of mainland Scotland.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Europe’s space and telecommunication heavyweights have formed a consortium to bid for the European Union’s IRIS² satellite constellation.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Thai satellite service provider and operator Thaicom has entered a partnership with Japan’s Synspective to provide synthetic aperture radar satellite services.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Lulav Space’s engineers gained experience with lunar guidance, navigation and control via prior work on the Beresheet 1 lunar lander mission in 2019.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Twenty-seven seconds into the flight an “energetic event” caused a communications breakdown with another engine, No. 19.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The effort is using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), located about 50 mi. west of Socorro, New Mexico.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Japanese startup ALE plans to launch another Sky Canvas satellite in 2024 that will dispense artificial meteorites.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic completed the first glide flight of the updated SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity from Spaceport America in New Mexico on April 26.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
HawkEye recently launched its seventh cluster of three satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Relativity Space is focusing on a rapid test series for its liquid oxygen/methane (LOx/CH4) Aeon R rocket engine.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The FAA has issued a vehicle operator license to SpaceX for the first orbital flight test of its Starship/Super Heavy launch system.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Small geostationary satellite provider Astranis on April 14 announced a $250 million Series C financing round.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ispace of Japan plans to attempt touching down on the Moon with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander as soon as April 25.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
The update comes after Relativity Space’s mostly 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on March 22 but failed to reach orbit.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Boeing has delivered its third and fourth O3b mPOWER satellites to communications company SES.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Space transport startup Dawn Aerospace plans to begin gradual envelope expansion flights of its suborbital Mk-2 Aurora spaceplane.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Startup Loft Orbital has doubled its order from Airbus OneWeb Satellites to 30 spacecraft, the company said April 6.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital booster failed during an uncrewed Sept. 12 launch due to structural fatigue on the engine nozzle.
Commercial Space