Commercial Space

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.

HEO plans to integrate Planet Labs’ SkySat Earth observation constellation into its spacecraft surveillance network.

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.

Satellite operator SES has made a “strategic investment” in new direct-to-device company Elveo Mobile.

The National Reconnaissance Office has tapped HawkEye 360 to help operationalize its use of commercial radio frequency (RF) capabilities.

As space domain awareness grows in importance, Astranis has introduced a new spacecraft to detect and assess objects in higher orbits.

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.

WindBorne Systems says its network of weather balloons has tripled over the past year to more than 600 balloons currently aloft.

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.

SES is asking regulators to extend a regulatory waiver for nine more months linked to development problems with its latest O3b mPower sat.

The Taiwan Space Agency has opened its iSPARK accelerator for startups and companies, including business from other sectors interested in entering the space industry.

Relativity Space plans to add production and test facilities as well as launch support infrastructure for its Terran R program at Cape Canaveral SFS.

Venus Aerospace and Lockheed Martin have entered a collaboration agreement for evaluation of the Houston-based company’s rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) technology.

Venus Aerospace has announced an expansion of its corporate leadership team following a $91 million multi-investor funding round earlier this month.

Senra Systems has raised a $65 million Series B round to expand its wire harness production to a third factory.

Voyager Technologies, a contender for a NASA-backed, privately owned space station in low Earth orbit, is adding Penn State University to its associated space research institute.

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.

Northwood 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.