Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Norway’s Andøya Spaceport has opened new facilities to enable satellite launches from the High North of Scandinavia.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
China’s iSpace has completed the country’s first test of a reusable rocket, performing a 50-sec. "hop" with the first stage of its Hyperbola-2 launch vehicle.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
SpaceX’s internet-beaming Starlink satellite division has reached cash flow breakeven, CEO Elon Musk says.
Commercial Space

By Joe Anselmo, Graham Warwick
A new rocket engine for military uses could be repurposed for Mach 9 air travel—listen in as editors talk with the founders of far-out startup Venus Aerospace.
Check 6

By Irene Klotz
The SwRI's Alan Stern and two other paying passengers joined a Virgin Galactic crew for a short suborbital hop on Nov. 2.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Kuva Space of Finland has raised €16.6 million ($17.6 million) in funding to start building and launching a hyperspectral cubesat constellation.
Commercial Space

By Matthew Fulco
With this fresh funding round, Skyroot has raised a total of $95 million, top among Indian space startups.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ovzon of Sweden plans to launch its Ovzon 3 geostationary communications satellite, which has an antenna that can generate steerable spot beams, as soon as December 2023.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Dómhnal Slattery has a new job as chairman of a startup looking to commercialize a centrifuge-based mass accelerator for space access called SpinLaunch.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A privately owned lunar lander slated to fly aboard the first United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket arrived in Florida on Oct. 30 for launch preparations.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Sidus Space continues to shuffle its management with the departure of its chief technology officer, Jamie Adams, who was also a director on its board.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
“We arrived at strategic business decisions regarding our spectrum allocation,” Michelle Parker, vice president, Boeing Space Mission Systems, wrote.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ship remote control service Seafar is integrating neXat, a satellite communications service, into its remote ship navigation technology.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The original launch date for IM's Nova-C lunar lander—from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket—was planned for as soon as mid-November.
Space

By Garrett Reim
It’s been a rough month for small satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Brian Everstine
The service’s broader commercial space strategy remains under consideration within the Pentagon.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The ambitious mission to explore seven asteroids is targeted to launch in March 2028.
Space

By Irene Klotz, Garrett Reim
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is targeting Dec. 24 for the first launch of its Vulcan-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral SFS.
Commercial Space

Aviation Week Staff
Europe’s space workforce grew by 8.2% in 2022 over the prior year, the Space Foundation says in a quarterly report on the state of the space industry.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The company is developing a large spacecraft to transport, host, refuel and provide data and other services for multiple payloads.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Axiom Space is nearing completion of its Hab One pressure vessel.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
A company has announced a “record-setting” $100 million “seed” round of venture capital investment toward its proposed platform for lunar transportation.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
A team of European rocket developers are to help prove German ambitions for sat launch at sea with a series of suborbital launches planned for spring 2024.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Eutelsat OneWeb says its low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellation has connected to a terrestrial 5G mobile network.
Commercial Space