Commercial Space

Suborbital space tourism company Virgin Galactic has revealed new details of its long-term business model.

L3 Harris has signed a contract for up to 20 launches aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket.

Impulse Space has debuted a space tug program to carry satellites to geostationary orbit.

Near-space tourism provider Halo Space is gearing up for its next test flight over Saudi Arabia using its full-sized capsule designed for passenger flights.

Axiom Space co-founder Mike Suffredini will transition from CEO to long-term member of the company's six-person board of directors and advisor for "personal reasons."

The Space Systems Command’s System Engineering Review Board recommended the fueling port.

Airbus’ high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) spinoff Aalto has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesian telecommunications company Mitratel.

The Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat) will move to the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City beginning next year.

Water-based thruster specialist Pale Blue plans to demonstrate an ion thruster in early 2025.

Muon Space, an end-to-end space systems provider, has raised $56.7 million in a Series B funding round.

Technical problems have delayed Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo ship from executing the maneuvering burns that will allow it to dock with the ISS.

Vast has allotted its first two payload lockers on its in-development private space station to Redwire and Yuri, which have run ISS microgravity experiments.

Europe is pressing ahead with the second Ariane 6 launch, even as program officials continue to assess an upper-stage glitch during the rocket’s first flight.

To avoid missing out in the race to deploy large LEO constellations, Russia plans to enhance its Gonets system with Fifth Generation Design Bureau.

Beijing is increasingly relying on companies to strengthen its presence in commercial space.

Al Yah Satellite Communications reported a drop in revenue for the first half of the year, driven by a payload anomaly on its Thuraya 3 geostationary satcom.

SpaceX ended a two-week grounding of the world’s busiest rocket fleet with a trio of Falcon 9 launches over the weekend, dispatching Starlink satellites into orbit.

This follows the FAA’s decision to permit Falcon 9 launches to resume after a July 11 second-stage launch failure.

The decision follows the recovery of a piece of Dragon debris in Australia in 2022.

The FAA on July 25 said there were no public safety issues associated with the failure of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket two weeks ago, clearing the company to resume flights.

A UK team has begun flight tests of an airborne 5G connectivity system.

Falcon 9 success streak ends after 325 consecutive flights.

Blue Origin says it has resolved a problem that impaired operation of one of three parachutes on the last flight of its New Shepard suborbital system.

The Lafayette, Colorado-based company will also increase its UK-based workforce to 15 employees and open a new office in Oxfordshire.

The demonstration aims to show Astroscale’s servicer spacecraft removing a Eutelsat OneWeb satellite from orbit.