Commercial Space

Stratonautica has become the first Russian company to test a system for delivery of picosatellites, tiny spacecraft with a wet mass between 0.1-1 kg.

Beleaguered rocket startup Astra Space will raise as much as $65 million gross through a new stock sale effort while also carrying out a stock consolidation effort.

NASA’s return to the Moon—and future human exploration initiatives—rely on private sector partnerships.

Europe’s workhorse Ariane 5 ends operations after 117 flights.

Voyager and IN-SPACe will also “seek additional collaboration opportunities with various stakeholders within the Indian space ecosystem.

Sidus Space and Lulav Space plan to launch an event-based star tracker in June 2024.

The agency has not had administrator for more than 450 days, and the effects are rippling through aviation and other industries.

Arianespace’s workhorse Ariane 5 rocket closed out 27 years of operations on July 5 with its 117th mission.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The Virgin Galactic space company conducted its inaugural commercial flight on June 29.

George Nield, who led the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, talks about managing the risks of private space travel without harming innovation.

Building a space taxi for NASA turned out to be a whole lot harder than Boeing imagined.

The Midland, Texas, company said it will use net proceeds for general corporate purposes.

The company has spent the last three years investing in in-space servicing, propulsion and robotic technology to develop a prototype AMU.

Amid a shortage of rocket motors for munitions, Anduril Industries has acquired Adranos, a manufacturer of solid rocket motors.

The mission, which is intended to deliver two European government communications satellites into orbit, had been targeted to launch on June 16.

The announcement, made in a U.S. regulatory filing late June 22, spurred a 19% selloff of Virgin’s share price by midday regular trading on June 23.

The crewed Hello-1X could be ready to fly next year to validate technologies for reusable orbital and lunar delivery vehicles.

Three months after confirming it was exploring a merger with Intelsat, Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES said June 22 that the talks are off.

Ad Astra Rocket Co. has elected two new members to its board of directors.

The new launch vehicle's assembly on the launch pad is scheduled for November 2023.

Intelsat has ordered its fourth satellite life extension servicing from Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics subsidiary.

After adjusting for distance, SpaceX’s new Generation V2 Mini Starlink satellites are 12 times less luminous than previous generation Starlink spacecraft.

The first version of the Electron rocket modified for use as a booster for hypersonic and suborbital flight tests launched successfully on June 17.

Vast has selected Impulse Space’s Saiph thrusters for its Haven-1 Space Station.