Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ispace of Japan plans to attempt touching down on the Moon with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander as soon as April 25.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
The update comes after Relativity Space’s mostly 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on March 22 but failed to reach orbit.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Boeing has delivered its third and fourth O3b mPOWER satellites to communications company SES.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Space transport startup Dawn Aerospace plans to begin gradual envelope expansion flights of its suborbital Mk-2 Aurora spaceplane.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Startup Loft Orbital has doubled its order from Airbus OneWeb Satellites to 30 spacecraft, the company said April 6.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital booster failed during an uncrewed Sept. 12 launch due to structural fatigue on the engine nozzle.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Dawn Aerospace’s Mk-II Aurora spaceplane has received an aircraft certification from the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space is moving on to tests of its inflatable habitat technology with hard structures inside the pressure shell.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
After a controlled burn lasting several minutes from its main propulsion system, ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander entered the Moon’s orbit on March 21.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Commerce Dept. has finished a pilot program to demonstrate the ability of the U.S. to track objects in GEO using commercial data and analytic services.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
OneWeb intends to look beyond OneWeb Satellites, which it jointly owns with Airbus, for a manufacturing partner for its next-generation constellation.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Space Force plans to set up an organized reserve of commercial space capabilities to augment military satellites when needed.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Amazon on March 14 unveiled a trio of customer terminals to support the network’s global broadband communications.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
The company also announced March 13 that it has an agreement with Rivada Space Networks.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Pale Blue of Tokyo says it successfully demonstrated its water vapor propulsion system in low Earth orbit aboard Sony’s EYE nanosatellite.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ispace, which has a lander en route to the Moon, plans to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market on April 12.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Lonestar Data Holdings, a startup developing a data center for Moon-based operations, has raised $5 million in a seed round.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Earth observation satellite builder Axelspace, in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology, has designed a novel Ka-band radio for microsatellites.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract is part of the Foreign Commercial Imagery Program.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX fired up 32 of the 33 Raptor engines on its first Starship/Super Heavy booster for a static hot-fire on Feb. 9.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Small satellites dominated the space industry in terms of numbers, accounting for 95% of all spacecraft launched in 2022, according to a report by Bryce Tech.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Spacetug developer Exotrail of France has raised a $58 million Series B round.
Commercial Space