Commercial Space

Calhoun wants new types that delivers in the neighborhood a 20-30% improvement over today’s airplanes.

Tomorrow.io, a startup providing satellite-enabled weather data and services, said it closed an $87 million Series E round of venture capital funding.

Ispace of Japan has named Ronald Garan as the CEO of its subsidiary ispace technologies U.S.

Virgin Galactic is aiming to begin commercial suborbital spaceflight services between June 27 and 30, the company said on June 15.

Arianespace is delaying the launch of its final Ariane 5 rocket due to a possible technical issue with the booster.

Ultimately, heritage hardware, not new technology, is the cause.

The company is developing a 62-ft. (19-m), two-stage rocket to deliver satellites weighing up to 397 lb. into low Earth orbit.

Spire Global launched a pair of 6U cubesats with laser communications payloads aboard the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission on June 12.

Ariane 6 delays and problems with Vega C leave European launch industry mostly grounded.

Safran CEO Olivier Andries stresses risk- and revenue-sharing as part of sector reorganization for future launches following Ariane 6 program delays.

Safran’s CEO sees challenges and opportunities in aerospace manufacturing and space launch in the coming years.

Heavy state intervention could weigh down China’s plans to dominate commercial space.

A routine checkpoint review exposed two safety issues that were seeded long ago.

High-temperature fuel cells; Hydrogen afterburner; SAF report card; and Spaceplane flies on rocket power.

Westinghouse Electric Company and Astrobotic have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore development of space nuclear technologies.

Aviation Week editors talk with the Boeing Defense, Space and Security president about his focus on regaining stability for major development programs.

Boeing is standing down from preparations to launch the long-awaited Crew Flight Test (CFT) of its CST-100 Starliner.

On its second private charter to the ISS, Axiom flies a pair of Saudi astronauts.

Company’s newly refurbished spaceship and carrier jet return to flight.

Satellite chip startup SatixFy said Nir Barkan will be acting CEO effective June 1.

After consulting “a large number” of airlines and IFC competitors, the European Commission decided that Viasat’s market position would remain “moderate.”

Ispace believes that its Series 1 lunar lander crashed into the Moon because of an error in the spacecraft’s altitude measurement software.

The final two members of a novel cubesat quartet were launched into orbit to track developing storms on a near-hourly basis.

The cislunar transporter would make propellant runs from LEO to lunar orbit.

Like a shooting star, Virgin Orbit’s quick flare-up and steady diminution punctuates new space’s financial struggles.