Commercial Space
Mar 31, 2023
Momentum for in-space servicing, space logistics and manufacturing is building.
Mar 30, 2023
The U.S. Space Development Agency is poised to test its small-satellite constellation.
Mar 24, 2023
A loose fuel filter doomed the company’s last launch. Then came a bigger problem.
Mar 22, 2023
Just six more satellites are needed for full global coverage.
Mar 21, 2023
U.S. space agency will lease the garments, which provide 8 hr. of life support for missions.
Jan 16, 2024
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic is preparing to send its Peregrine lunar lander toward a destructive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere on Jan. 18.
Jan 16, 2024
The seven-year REMIS-2 agreement runs to Sept. 30, 2030, with an option to extend it through Sept. 30, 2032, according to a Jan. 12 NASA award announcement.
Jan 16, 2024
Space-tug startup Momentus may have received a fatal blow after losing the U.S. Space Development Agency’s recent competition for 18 Tranche 2 satellites.
Jan 11, 2024
D-Orbit, a space tug startup, has raised a €100 million ($109.7 million) Series C round.
Jan 11, 2024
Astrobotic has repurposed its Peregrine lander for in-space operations and activated all 10 powered experiments aboard, the company said Jan. 11.
Jan 11, 2024
Chinese private space company Orienspace has launched its first rocket into orbit, a solid-fueled Gravity-1 carrying three Yunyao-1 satellites, from a barge.
Jan 09, 2024
A propulsion system leak aboard the privately operated Peregrine spacecraft will preclude a planned landing on the Moon.
Jan 08, 2024
United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral SFS on Jan. 8.