Commercial Space

Astroport Space Technologies, a startup developing a system of baking Moon dust into lunar roads and rocket pads, has partnered with Interflight Global Europe.

With five Super Heavy boosters and eight Starships in production, SpaceX ramps up flight test program.

Innovations from the aerospace industry are helping to monitor, manage and mitigate climate change.

Relativity Space is focusing on a rapid test series for its liquid oxygen/methane (LOx/CH4) Aeon R rocket engine.

The Pentagon is beginning an effort to link commercial space innovations with U.S. military needs, to speed their entry into government use.

The leader of bankrupt space company Virgin Orbit says it is seeing active interest from a “diverse group” of potential buyers.

The U.S. Space Force’s upcoming competition for national security space launch service will be open to novel heavy- and superheavy new boosters.

The first Dream Chaser, DC-101 Tenacity, is set to launch on the second flight of the Vulcan Centaur.

Northrop Grumman says its Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellite constellation network has passed a critical design review.

Amazon Web Services has selected 14 startups to participate in its 2023 Space Accelerator course.

SpaceX will try again on April 20 to send a Starship spacecraft into a 90-min. flight test around the Earth.

The partnership is designed to speed up the on-orbit installation of higher-volume LIFE inflatable modules.

U.S. Space Force is attempting to launch a satellite within days of its call-up.

Astroscale U.S. officially cut the ribbon on its new Denver headquarters on April 16, a move intended to anchor itself in the U.S. market.

Lockheed Martin’s In-space Upgrade Satellite System CubeSats demonstrated rendezvous and proximity operations within 400 m in February.

Orbit Fab, an in-space refueling depot startup that aims to provide fuel for satellites beginning in 2025, has completed a Series A round of funding.

AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investment firm in the aerospace and defense sector, has unveiled a partnership with Space Florida.

Visiona’s goal is to field a constellation of similar, Earth-observing nanosatellites if the mission is successful, then move on to bigger satellites.

Thales Alenia Space has matured technologies and production processes for its Spacebus Neo all-electric telecommunications satellite platform.

The space industry faces a “double bind” of insufficient launch capacity in the short term and oversupply in the long run, a McKinsey & Co. report says.

SpaceX has turned the first launch attempt of its integrated Starship/Super Heavy vehicle into a wet dress rehearsal.

On the eve of the first integrated flight test of the Starship/Super Heavy, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says his most fervent wish is to not destroy the launchpad.

The FAA has issued a vehicle operator license to SpaceX for the first orbital flight test of its Starship/Super Heavy launch system.

Small geostationary satellite provider Astranis on April 14 announced a $250 million Series C financing round.

The company expected to gain access to the test article on April 14 to recover the dome of the Centaur V test article for analysis.