Commercial Space

In-space logistics are the key to increasing robustness and economic productivity.

After the geostationary communications satellite market collapse, Maxar is focused on launching its Legion satellites and rapidly providing data to customers.

Flying the SpaceX Falcon Heavy with ULA upper stage is an option for lunar missions beyond 2022.

Steppingstones are in place to fast-track revived U.S. lunar exploration initiative, but some key items are missing.

A former NASA extravehicular system manager for the ISS, Moses discusses her recent suborbital ride aboard SpaceShipTwo for the first inflight assessment of the passenger cabin.

Eight years after shuttle flights ended, SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule reaches space station for test run, ushering in “new era in space.”

As NASA gears up for first U.S. human spaceflights since 2011, a training tool from the ‘60s is back in vogue.

Virgin Galactic targets assured repeatability as test focus expands beyond envelope expansion to include cabin environment and ride quality.

At last, a U.S spaceship for orbital human flight is ready for a test run to ISS.

Lured by the prospect of thousands of small satellites needing rides to orbit, private launchers line up.

This Anglo-Danish startup describes how production, architecture and propellant are working together to drive efficiency.

Methane and liquid oxygen engine hits 60% of maximum thrust during 2-sec. debut.

Allowing corporations to buy naming rights to NASA property and to use astronauts for commercials would cause more harm than good for the American public and for NASA as a public entity.

Commercial funding not only enhances great American research organizations, but it also creates them—just look at the Smithsonian Institution.

A government-backed company is selling Soyuz launch services from Russian spaceports.

After closing out 2018 with a company record 21 launches, SpaceX aims to keep the pace, begin flying astronauts and test a prototype Mars spaceship

But the final frontier remains the playground of only the most adventurous investors—and for good reasons.

Orders for large geostationary communication satellites fall, but small birds flock to LEO and beyond.

Though China surpassed the U.S. launch rate in 2018, private U.S. “new space” companies are ramping up activity.

Unity’s Dec. 13 flight marked its fourth rocket-powered test and the first to achieve the goal of exo-atmospheric flight set by Richard Branson 14 years ago.

Stuck steering fins prompt booster to abort ground landing attempt.

A $3 billion upgrade is nearing completion, positioning Iridium ahead of a bevy of competitors vying for global mobile communications business

Composite cryogenic propellent tank buildup marks the start of prepping Boeing’s Phantom Express spaceplane for DARPA’s XSP reusable launch vehicle program.

The FAA is readying new rules and technologies to accommodate increasing launch and reentry operations by commercial space operators.

Comprehensive captive-carry flight-test campaign awaits 747 and LauncherOne combination following successful fit check with rocket and wing pylon.