Commercial Space

Aug 08, 2023
Space tourism company makes room for experiments and prototypes.
Jul 28, 2023
Seven missions have been set aside for the third-place winner.
Jul 28, 2023
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Jul 27, 2023
Editors discuss the meaning of exponential smallsat growth, new technologies for flying satellites in formation and U.S. national security space needs.
Jul 25, 2023
The startup asserts that its radio-­frequency electric propulsion unit is easier to manufacture.
Mar 21, 2024
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded three contracts for development of low-cost space tugs and in-space refueling technologies.
Mar 19, 2024
SpaceX plans to sell laser communications systems developed for its Starlink broadband satellites to third-party satellite manufacturers.
Mar 19, 2024
MDA Space says the Aurora communications satellite product line would support multiple radio frequencies and “dynamic in-orbit reconfiguration.”
Mar 15, 2024
The filing with the ITU, a U.N. agency that manages global use of radio-frequency spectrum and sat orbits, is a prerequisite to building the constellation.
Mar 15, 2024
At the 66th Annual Laureates Awards, Daniel S. Goldin was given the Lifetime Achievement award for his six decades of contributions to the field of space.
Mar 14, 2024
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has been inducted into the NASA Armstrong In-Space Propulsion facility in Ohio in readiness for thermal vacuum testing.
Mar 14, 2024
Terran Orbital has unveiled a new small geosynchronous orbit communications satellite product.
Mar 14, 2024
SpaceX's Starship completed a full-duration ascent burn and was able to run through a series of engineering demonstrations as it coasted above Earth.