Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Satellite launch startup Orbex has begun construction of its spaceport on the north coast of mainland Scotland.
Commercial Space

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

By Garrett Reim
Europe’s space and telecommunication heavyweights have formed a consortium to bid for the European Union’s IRIS² satellite constellation.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Thai satellite service provider and operator Thaicom has entered a partnership with Japan’s Synspective to provide synthetic aperture radar satellite services.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
The Airbus Perlan 2 stratospheric glider is en route to South America.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Lulav Space’s engineers gained experience with lunar guidance, navigation and control via prior work on the Beresheet 1 lunar lander mission in 2019.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Twenty-seven seconds into the flight an “energetic event” caused a communications breakdown with another engine, No. 19.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The effort is using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), located about 50 mi. west of Socorro, New Mexico.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
ViaSat-3 Americas, the first terabit-class communications satellite, reached orbit on May 1.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Startup fails in attempt to be the first private company to land on the Moon.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Japanese startup ALE plans to launch another Sky Canvas satellite in 2024 that will dispense artificial meteorites.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic completed the first glide flight of the updated SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity from Spaceport America in New Mexico on April 26.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio, Irene Klotz, Garrett Reim, Brian Everstine
Aviation Week editors talk about the aftermath of the Starship test and the future of commercial and military space launches.
Check 6

By Guy Norris
Rolls is leveraging its 60-plus years of submarine reactor work to develop and test components of a micro-reactor nuclear power system for space applications.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Turkish trainer flies; a look at two U.S. Space Force programs; Rocket Lab’s hypersonic test and Biden picks new Army chief.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
Ispace’s attempted landing of its Hakuto-R spacecraft on the Moon appears to have failed.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Contenders take different approaches to challenges of lunar rover design as NASA contest nears new stage.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
HawkEye recently launched its seventh cluster of three satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Commercial Space

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

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

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

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

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

By Guy Norris, Joe Anselmo
The leader of bankrupt space company Virgin Orbit says it is seeing active interest from a “diverse group” of potential buyers.
Commercial Space

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