Commercial Space

Launch service provider Arianespace’s order backlog totals 29 missions, with the next being planned for December.

The Series B will bolster the Albuquerque, New Mexico, startup’s expansion plans for a new solid rocket motor factory in Luling, Texas.

Italian space logistics company D-Orbit has established a U.S.-based joint venture focused on satellite bus design, manufacturing and sales.

Ovzon says its Ovzon 3 small geostationary orbit communications satellite is ready to start commercial service.

Photonic navigation sensors; Airbus and quantum computing; in-space refueling; alternatives to GPS for PNT.

A group of recently launched startups are bucking the strategy.

Germany has awarded Airbus a €2.1 billion ($2.3 billion) contract to build the new SatcomBW 3 constellation due to be deployed before the end of the decade.

Orbit Fab has successfully demonstrated the automated docking of its in-space refueling technology.

Germany’s Tesat-Spacecom said it has secured a European Space Agency (ESA) project to deliver a cubesat to test 6G telecommunications technology.

The designation enables Space Florida to tap the Florida Department of Transportation’s Spaceport Improvement Program.

The next 18 months will be busy for United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) newest rocket, and no one is more aware of that fact than Tory Bruno.

Europe’s Eumetsat agency is turning to SpaceX to deliver its Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) weather satellite into orbit in 2025.

Al Yah Satellite Communications says it has selected SpaceX and the Falcon 9 to launch the Al Yah 4 and Al Yah 5 satellites it recently ordered from Airbus.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner will remain at the International Space Station (ISS) while a new ground campaign begins to test thrusters.

Amazon executives formally opened the company’s Project Kuiper internet satellite factory on June 27.

The scheduled July 9 launch kicks off a new era in European space operations.

Despite strong demand for new commercial aircraft, supply chain woes are forcing Airbus to delay rate targets and may make it sell parts of the space business.

NASA is leading the coalition into the new age of exploration.

Starfish Space is to extend the life of an aging Intelsat communications satellite in geostationary orbit using its Otter servicing spacecraft starting in 2026.

The move is part of preparations for the first flight of the Miura 5 rocket, planned for late 2025.

Firefly Aerospace plans to use the Virginia-owned launchpad at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility for East Coast launches of its Alpha small-satellite rocket.

The company received a prior delisting warning from the stock exchange in October 2023.

The ULA Vulcan-Centaur rocket being prepared to fly a dual-purpose mission this fall arrived at Cape Canaveral on June 24 ahead of a planned September launch.

Ahead of Ariane 6's inaugural mission scheduled for July, its manufacturer ArianeGroup says the demand is there to increase planned production rates.

Airbus is considering major changes to its space operations after a program review identified almost $1 billion in higher costs on critical satellite contracts.