Commercial Space

New office outlines plans for future servicing, mobility and logistics.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship to the International Space Station on Jan. 30.

For the first time, Virgin Galactic flew paying passengers without a company employee in the SpaceShipTwo crew cabin.

The latest annual report by NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel’s (ASAP) was released Jan. 25.

Astrobotic and JAXA wrestle with landing on the Moon.

When astronauts land on the Moon, will taikonauts be there to greet them?

In-space refueling startup Orbit Fab and in-space junk removal startup ClearSpace plan to work together to develop spacecraft refueling technologies.

Company leader Marc Bell has rebuffed calls for his resignation.

Startup Albedo has raised a $35 million Series A-1 funding round and plans to use the cash infusion to launch its first operational imagery satellite, Sat-1.

Viasat demonstrated its system using Cranfield University’s National Flying Laboratory Center’s Saab 340B twin-turboprop in January.

Astrobotic wrapped up its first space mission with the destructive reentry of its Peregrine lunar lander in Earth’s atmosphere on Jan. 18.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket kicked off the planned 14-day Axiom-3 (Ax-3) mission with launch at 4:49 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.

Impulse Space has unveiled additional details about its Helios kick stage, which is scheduled for a demonstration launch mission in early 2026.

Astrobotic is projecting its troubled Peregrine lunar lander will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean two days earlier than previous estimates.

Astroscale U.S. has unveiled details of the concept of operations for its in-space refueler spacecraft being developed for the U.S. Space Force.

Space tech companies largely shrugged off 2023’s broad slowdown in VC investment given their strategic importance, according to the latest Seraphim Space Index.

Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic is preparing to send its Peregrine lunar lander toward a destructive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere on Jan. 18.

The seven-year REMIS-2 agreement runs to Sept. 30, 2030, with an option to extend it through Sept. 30, 2032, according to a Jan. 12 NASA award announcement.

Space-tug startup Momentus may have received a fatal blow after losing the U.S. Space Development Agency’s recent competition for 18 Tranche 2 satellites.

The space agency is slowing Artemis missions to address crew safety challenges.

The loss of the Peregrine lunar lander mission was unfortunate but irrelevant for Cert-1 objectives.

With its Moon landing no longer a possibility, Peregrine was repurposed for in-space operations.

D-Orbit, a space tug startup, has raised a €100 million ($109.7 million) Series C round.

Astrobotic has repurposed its Peregrine lander for in-space operations and activated all 10 powered experiments aboard, the company said Jan. 11.

Chinese private space company Orienspace has launched its first rocket into orbit, a solid-fueled Gravity-1 carrying three Yunyao-1 satellites, from a barge.