Commercial Space

Vantor has debuted its WorldView 3D satellite tasking product that allows users to see updated 3D satellite imagery within 24 hr.

NASA's reimbursable Space Act Agreement, announced June 17, goes well beyond what NASA has previously done to support the burgeoning commercial space industry.

Firefly Aerospace has acquired the company that provided the vision navigation software to land its Blue Ghost spacecraft on the Moon.

Sophia Space plans to test its orbital data center technology aboard Apex’s Nova satellite bus in 2027.

Norwood Space has unveiled a new ground-based parabolic antenna, named Prism, that is designed to handle high data rates.

Commercial space tracker LeoLabs says that China’s reusable spaceplane has released a new object on orbit.

Defense tech company True Anomaly says it has successfully demoed on-orbit maneuvering activities.

Boeing says its Q4S quantum networking satellite system has successfully demonstrated entanglement swapping during a ground test.

The International Space Station (ISS) has helped establish an in-space manufacturing capability for the production of artificial retinas.

Vast will fly two French astronauts on two separate missions scheduled for 2027, and will establish its European headquarters in Paris, the space technology company announced June 1.

Impulse Space, an orbital transfer vehicle and rocket motor developer, has raised a $500 million Series D to fund expansion of its manufacturing capacity.

K2 Space says it expects to see at least 36 satellites being built in 2028 as the company scales up its production plans.

Bellatrix Aerospace plans to demonstrate an air-breathing very low Earth orbit (VLEO) spacecraft in 2028.

The U.S. Space Force’s plans to procure new commercially derived satellite communications (satcom) spacecraft and services have been extended.

South Korea’s Satrec Initiative is looking at expanding its ambitions to deploy Earth imaging satellites based on strong demand for services from its SpaceEye-T spacecraft.

Italian space company Sitael has spelled out growth plans to more than triple sales through 2031 on the growing spending in Europe on the domain.

The European Union is projecting a more than doubling of the global Earth observation data and services market by 2034.

Are the trillions of investment pouring into artificial intelligence a speculative bubble? Are orbiting data centers the frothy peak of that financial hubris?

Startup Star Catcher Industries plans to demonstrate orbital optical power beam before the end of the year.

Cowboy Space says it plans to build launch vehicles and orbiting data centers for artificial intelligence.

Rocket Lab has signed an agreement to buy Motiv Space Systems, a specialist in planetary robotics and solar array motors, for $40 million in cash.

Swissto12 is to add an unfurling antenna reflector to a satellite in geostationary Earth orbit that it plans to use to broadcast directly to mobile devices.

Spire Global has opened its satellite manufacturing facility in Munich.

ExLabs is preparing a mission called ApophisEX to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis that is predicted to make a close approach to Earth in 2029.

Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor won’t rule out pursuing the Starlab commercial low-Earth-orbit space station without NASA backing.