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

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

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman says its Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellite constellation network has passed a critical design review.
Commercial Space

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

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

By Guy Norris
The partnership is designed to speed up the on-orbit installation of higher-volume LIFE inflatable modules.
Commercial Space

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

By Garrett Reim
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.
Commercial Space

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