Commercial Space

Lunar Outpost has signed a contract to have its lunar rover travel to the Moon aboard SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System.

Startup Inversion has raised a $44 million in a Series A round to fund development of a reentry capsule that could carry payloads on orbits around Earth.

Taiwanese manufacturers in SpaceX’s supply chain are shifting some satellite component production to Southeast Asia, driven by business and geopolitics.

Europe’s efforts to foster space entrepreneurship are being hampered by market fragmentation and a lack of risk-taking mindset, say investors and executives.

The rise of new companies that are more digitally intensive, agile and cost-efficient presents the industry with both threats and opportunities.

Arianespace says it has signed an agreement with Exotrail to launch the company’s geostationary version of its Orbital Transfer Vehicle.

The EU expects to explore the possibility of fostering homegrown responsive space options, though it has not settled on how it might pursue such a path.

Lockheed Martin and the UK Space Agency say they are assessing plans for how to deliver the Pathfinder space launch from the UK.

The European Space Agency is looking to revamp how it implements technology programs to better support its member states' companies as competition in the sector heats up globally

Kim speaks with Aviation Week as Firefly prepares to enter the lunar and in-space services markets and expand its family of launch vehicles.

As low-Earth orbit is becoming increasingly busy, progress in AI could help reduce debris collisions and detect hostile spacecraft.

Terms of the contracts were not disclosed, nor how many launches each company was awarded.

Thales forecasts earnings margins to bounce back to more than 7% by 2028 from the 1% the business generated last year.

The secretive agency is hitching its wagons to more commercial companies than ever before to harness emerging capabilities and field new remote sensing layers.

Spire Global says it has agreed to sell its maritime business to ship tracking provider Kpler for around $241 million to retire all its outstanding debt.

ArianeGroup says it has made progress toward achieving first flight of the four-booster version of the Ariane 6.

SpaceX plans to step up the cadence of Starship-Super Heavy flight tests, with a sixth launch designed to build on last month’s successful booster landing catch.

The Round D, which raised more than initially expected, was led by RPM Ventures.

German space company OHB could remain public throughout 2025 despite completing a deal with investors KKR aimed at taking the company private.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered a cold welding experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 5.

Deorbiting the ultra-high-power International Space Station would be a waste of energy, literally and figuratively.

The wildcatting company sees lucrative potential in mining platinum in space.

Spire Global has disclosed new talks with lender Blue Torch Capital to get relief on some loan terms as it tries to complete a full review of its financials.

The new constellation will expand cellular service for Apple users, Globalstar disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Nov. 1.

SpaceX’s Starship booster “catch” at the launchpad wowed the space world, but big hurdles remain to launching humans to Mars in 2028.