After releasing its satellite computer vision and guidance software in January, Scout has raised an undisclosed bridge round of financing led by venture capital firm Decisive Point.
Russia’s Soyuz MS-21 successfully launched and docked to the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment on March 18, delivering cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov.
The first NASA-backed private astronaut mission to the International Space Station has been retargeted for launch no earlier than April 3 due to additional time needed for transportation provider SpaceX to prepare the Crew Dragon spacecraft chartered by Axiom Space.
NASA’s strategy for transitioning its operations aboard the International Space Station to an assortment of commercial free flyers over the coming decade faces a number of opportunity-nurtured challenges, a panel of experts with a stake in the outcome says.
NASA’s debut Space Launch System rocket began an overnight ride from Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B on March 17, a major milestone in a 10-year, $20 billion effort to develop a heavy-lift rocket capable of sending astronauts back to the Moon.
The European Space Agency has suspended the ExoMars 2022 program, a cooperative effort with Russian space agency Roscosmos to look for traces of life underneath the surface of Mars.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command and Boeing recently finished a critical design review of the company’s Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype.
Driven by exponential growth in the number of proposed satellites in low Earth orbit and beyond this decade, investors and entrepreneurs are eyeing commercial-oriented space situational awareness (SSA) as a growth sector worthy of new investments, entrants and partnerships.
Satellite imagery appears to confirm that a Ukrainian attack on an airfield previously captured by Russian forces resulted in the destruction of several Russian helicopters.
Cablex, Crystalaid, Ferra, Levett, Lovitt, Nupress and Quickstep Holdings all inked memorandums of agreement with Boeing ahead of the JP9102 down selection.
NASA has agreed to address so-called insider cybersecurity threats to its unclassified programs in response to an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general.
Less than five weeks after technical issues thwarted Astra Space’s first commercial mission, the Alameda, California, startup returned to the launchpad March 15 with a successful flight for another paying customer.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by an American on March 15 while aboard the International Space Station.
MDA has been awarded a $269 million contract by the Canadian Space Agency to complete preliminary design of the Canadarm3 robotic arm for Gateway, a space station planned for lunar orbit.
George Nield, who oversaw commercial spaceflight for the FAA before becoming a private consultant, is among five paying passengers slated to ride on Blue Origin’s next flight of its New Shepard suborbital system, with liftoff targeted for March 23.
Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has assured the U.S. that NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei will be returning to Earth from the International Space Station as planned aboard the Soyuz MS-19 that is set to land in Kazakhstan on March 30.
