Commercial Space

The Exploration Company is looking to begin trials of a flight-representative reusable cryogenic liquid oxygen‑methane engine next year.

Rocket Lab has already booked more launches in the first three months of 2026 than in all of 2025, company CEO Peter Beck announced in a May 7 earnings call.

HawkEye 360 is looking to raise around $416 million in its initial public offering (IPO), the company said hours before its first day of trading.

The most consequential of all anticipated aerospace and defense IPOs is that of SpaceX, which will undoubtedly elevate the prospects of other aerospace IPOs.

Space sovereignty is taking on additional geopolitical significance as Pixxel of Bengaluru announces plans to launch an orbiting data center for India.

ExLabs is preparing a mission called ApophisEX to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis that is predicted to make a close approach to Earth in 2029.

Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor won’t rule out pursuing the Starlab commercial low-Earth-orbit space station without NASA backing.

Momentus says recent efforts to strengthen its balance sheet have given it sufficient liquidity to sustain operations for 12 months.

Spacecraft developer Quantum Space says former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will serve as its next chief executive.

NASA says it is looking to offer opportunities on the next three Artemis missions, continuing an effort it began with the first two flights.

York Space Systems is acquiring All.Space, a UK-based satcom terminal provider, to expand connectivity solutions for the U.S. military and others customers.

Virgin Galactic has completed structural assembly of the first Delta-class SpaceShip.

Planet Labs says it aims to launch a new hyperspectral imaging satellite focused on atmospheric gas detection.

Arianespace deployed another 32 Amazon Leo satellites to low Earth orbit, boosting the constellation to more than 300 spacecraft.

A ULA Atlas V rocket lifted off April 27, carrying the next batch of 29 broadband satellites to low Earth orbit for Amazon’s growing constellation.

NASA plans to boost the financial commitment to the Commercial Lunar Payload Service, which includes more than a dozen vendors.

Apple cofounder’s venture seeks to fix a “broken” Earth-observation market.

HawkEye 360 is looking to raise more than $384 million in its initial public offering (IPO), the company says as it kicks off the roadshow for its listing.

SpaceX has provided further details on development setbacks it suffered in getting the newest version of its Starship-Super Heavy launch system back to the pad.

After the success of Artemis II, Lockheed Martin proposes an upgraded Orion for NASA’s commercial deep-space needs and fast-tracks the next three vehicles.

A young space domain awareness company founded by a former French Space Command leader is ready to provide commercial data to customers as it brings its first radar online and expands into the U.S.

German startup ATMOS Space Cargo is formalizing its pursuit of defense space-logistics business.

SpaceX and the U.S. Space Force launched the 10th GPS III satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket on April 21 from Cape Canaveral SFS.

Blue Origin says initial data suggests one of two BE-3U upper-stage engines did not deliver sufficient thrust to dispatch the AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 7 satellite to its intended orbit.

Sierra Space is attaching the last batch of thermal protection tiles to its Dream Chaser vehicle prior to a final integrated fight software load test.