Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The company first wants to move projects from high risk to high reward.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
ILC Dover is being sold again, this time to the global industrial-machinery company Ingersoll Rand.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Planet Labs has expanded its partnership with satellite image analytics firm SynMax to sell AI-powered vessel monitoring and classification software.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX is looking to fly Starship again in early May.
Space

By Irene Klotz, Guy Norris
Listen in as former Space Shuttle program manager Wayne Hale joins Aviation Week editors to unpack Starship's third flight test.
Check 6

By Garrett Reim
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded three contracts for development of low-cost space tugs and in-space refueling technologies.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Astra Space and Terran Orbital are the latest public space startups to bow out.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
SpaceX plans to sell laser communications systems developed for its Starlink broadband satellites to third-party satellite manufacturers.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
MDA Space says the Aurora communications satellite product line would support multiple radio frequencies and “dynamic in-orbit reconfiguration.”
Commercial Space

By Bill Carey
The filing with the ITU, a U.N. agency that manages global use of radio-frequency spectrum and sat orbits, is a prerequisite to building the constellation.
Commercial Space

At the 66th Annual Laureates Awards, Daniel S. Goldin was given the Lifetime Achievement award for his six decades of contributions to the field of space.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has been inducted into the NASA Armstrong In-Space Propulsion facility in Ohio in readiness for thermal vacuum testing.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Terran Orbital has unveiled a new small geosynchronous orbit communications satellite product.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX's Starship completed a full-duration ascent burn and was able to run through a series of engineering demonstrations as it coasted above Earth.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Space One's Kairos rocket exploded seconds after liftoff on the morning of March 13, with the company saying “flight termination measures” had kicked in.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Last living Apollo 17 crewmember is guiding off-world prospecting.
Commercial Space

By Bill Carey
Using satellites for radio communications over oceans promises air traffic management efficiencies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
Officially forming on March 12, Leonardo's space business becomes one of five business areas representing each of the warfighting domains: land, air, sea, cyber and space.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Satellite crowding and military conflict create new dangers in space.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Astra Space will go private by accepting a recently lowered buyout bid from its co-founders and top executives.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The flight demonstration is one of six with NASA backing.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The project was eclipsed by private spacecraft refueling efforts.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Space Florida, a quasi-public economic development and financing agency, plans to expand the state’s aerospace footprint in south Florida and the Panhandle.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Pending clearance from the FAA, SpaceX said on March 6 that it could be ready for its third Starship/Super Heavy flight test from Boca Chica Beach, Texas, as early as March 14.
Commercial Space