When it comes to deciding if NASA should buy services from commercial suppliers or operate space systems on its own, the question to ask is how best to achieve the desired outcome, Administrator Jared Isaacman says.
The Aerospace Corp. has licensed its DiskSat technology to three commercial companies as it pushes to make the new satellite configuration an industry standard.
Small satellites have been moving off dedicated small launch vehicles and increasingly turning to shared rides on medium- and heavy-lift rockets, an analysis of the industry shows.
StarCloud and Muon Space, both space startups looking to provide satellites for orbital data centers, separately announced venture capital rounds each worth $250 million.
Chinese commercial space company LandSpace Technology Corporation has landed the first-stage booster of a ZhuQue-3 rocket, marking the country's first successful recovery of an orbital-class booster by a commercial launch company.
NASA has selected four companies to provide commercial payload processing services for agency mission launches from multiple sites where the capabilities were not available at the time of initial mission contract awards.
CesiumAstro, a provider of advanced connectivity solutions for space and defense, has purchased Jariet Technologies, a fabless semiconductor provider for satellite communications
United Launch Alliance says it has wrapped up a wet dress rehearsal of the Vulcan rocket and a Centaur V upper stage tweaked to better support Amazon Leo constellation deployment.
A Redwire Space subsidiary has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch, host and return a Starfall capsule carrying pharmaceutical samples for microgravity research.
Blue Origin is looking to parlay U.S. national security and other customers’ interest in in-space mobility, logistics, communications and computing into a variety of in-space services and infrastructure.
BlackSky says it is scaling up production of its Gen-3 high-resolution Earth imaging satellites ahead of orders to help secure potential customers by being able to deliver spacecraft faster.
The Taiwan Space Agency has opened its iSPARK accelerator for startups and companies, including business from other sectors interested in entering the space industry.
Venus Aerospace and Lockheed Martin have entered a collaboration agreement for evaluation of the Houston-based company’s rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) technology.
