Commercial Space

AI produces alien-like bone structures that are lighter and stronger.

Lonestar Data Holdings, a startup developing a data center for Moon-based operations, has raised $5 million in a seed round.

The newest players in the space industry have some familiar names.

A manufacturing issue in the Zefiro 40 second stage’s nozzle led to the failure of the first commercial mission for a Vega-C launcher.

Bosses at a Welsh startup whose satellite was lost in the failed Virgin Orbit launch from the UK have criticized the country’s approach to sat licensing.

Predicting more intense activity above FL 500, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency and Eurocontrol draft guidelines for higher-airspace control.

Ferrying VMS Eve to Spaceport America clears the way for initial glide and powered tests of the refurbished SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity over the coming months.

We must inspire creative solutions from academia and industry, growing a cadre of engineers and scientists who are aware of challenges and eager to innovate.

Astroscale has raised a $76 million Series G round of capital and plans to jointly develop satellite buses with Mitsubishi Electric.

SpaceX scrubbed launch of the NASA-backed Crew-6 mission with 2 min. 14 sec. left on the clock.

Smartphone manufacturer Samsung is joining the race to provide cellular services from space.

More analysis of a Blue Origin BE-4 qualification engine for ULA’s Vulcan rocket program is pushing the booster’s debut flight to no earlier than May 4.

Momentus on Feb. 23 announced a preliminary settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the turbulent space tug startup.

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

Earth observation satellite builder Axelspace, in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology, has designed a novel Ka-band radio for microsatellites.

Startup Relativity Space is aiming to launch its first rocket, the 3D-printed Terran 1, on March 8 from Cape Canaveral.

Government officials want companies that will serve nation’s civil and military space needs.

The new procurement strategy is intended to boost competition.

Terran Orbital has won a $2.4 billion contract to build 300 small satellites for Rivada Space Networks.

Vast Space, a startup attempting to develop a space station with artificial gravity, has acquired Launcher.

The future of access to space may lie with equatorial launch sites that could make launch windows a thing of the past.

Speaking in Singapore, Scottish Business Minister Ivan McKee shared global ambitions for the nation's commercial space sector.

The FAA says SpaceX failed to file required launch collision-avoidance data ahead of a Falcon 9 launch with a batch of Starlink satellites last August.

Japan was forced to abort the launch of its new H3 rocket after the launch vehicle’s SRB-3 boosters failed to ignite.

NASA is seeking commercial space station design feedback from the U.S. aerospace industry on two fronts.