Commercial Space

Join as Aviation Week's Jeremy Kariuki, Bill Carey and Thierry Dubois discuss the latest developments on inflight connectivity.

The vehicle took off from Glentanner Aerodrome on the South Island of New Zealand.

A new launch date was not immediately announced.

The announcement follows a budget speech by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to India’s parliament in July.

The 11-year-old company also detailed plans for a new evolution of its Miura family of rockets.

The strategy was first discussed publicly around the time of the NATO summit in Washington in July.

The Vulcan Centaur rocket's only post-launch issue was a "variant observation" in one of the first stage's two solid rocket boosters, ULA says.

Based in Copenhagen, the fund is called Final Frontier.

The Starliner astronauts have completed configuration of the SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft now docked to the International Space Station.

The 5650B is an upgraded version of Comtech’s current wideband global satcom-certified modem.

The company also surpassed 4 million customers for the satellite-based internet service.

NASA’s Crew-9 Dragon Freedom capsule autonomously docked with the station, delivering a NASA astronaut and Russian cosmonaut for a five-month tour of duty.

Ted Colbert’s abrupt departure marks the first of possibly many management changes to improve the airframer’s course.

Maiaspace on Sept. 25 said the decision allows it to focus on starting commercial operations from the site in 2026.

Radian Aerospace of Seattle has unveiled the first prototype of its single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane.

Financier and Mission Commander Jared Isaacman is eyeing a more ambitious spacewalk for his next flight.

The agreement was announced Sept. 24 at the Burjeel Institute for Global Health in New York.

The static test fire at Cape Canaveral SFS marked Blue Origin’s first fueling of a New Glenn rocket stage with flight propellants, and the first engine burn of an integrated flight stage.

The Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve is a peacetime effort to develop capacity that the U.S. military can tap during times of conflict or crisis.

The creation of Fada follows the establishment of UAE Space Agency’s strategic partnership with Edge in November 2023.

Chinese space launcher startup Deep Blue Aerospace suffered a landing failure in the latest test of its Nebula-1 when the engine cut off prematurely.

Starlink, OneWeb and Iridium are looking to help users preserve positioning, navigation and timing information to prevent combat jamming and spoofing.

The two-stage rocket is already at its launch site in Andoya, Norway, and now entering the final test phases.

European satellite operator Eutelsat has signed a first agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to use the Japanese company’s new H3 rocket.

A Rocket Lab Electron launcher placed Kineis’ first five satellites into orbit last June.