Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Former top Boeing lobbyist Tim Keating has been named head of a new Sierra Space business unit.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Commerce Dept. has finished a pilot program to demonstrate the ability of the U.S. to track objects in GEO using commercial data and analytic services.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
OneWeb intends to look beyond OneWeb Satellites, which it jointly owns with Airbus, for a manufacturing partner for its next-generation constellation.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Troubled space launch company Virgin Orbit has temporarily suspended operations and furloughed almost all its staff as it continues efforts to seek new funding.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Space Force plans to set up an organized reserve of commercial space capabilities to augment military satellites when needed.
Commercial Space

Impulse Space is moving into a larger 60,000 ft.2 facility in Redondo Beach, California.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The Space Development Agency (SDA) plans to launch its first batch of satellites, Tranche 0, before the end of March.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Amazon on March 14 unveiled a trio of customer terminals to support the network’s global broadband communications.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
The company also announced March 13 that it has an agreement with Rivada Space Networks.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Pale Blue of Tokyo says it successfully demonstrated its water vapor propulsion system in low Earth orbit aboard Sony’s EYE nanosatellite.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Beyond the military realm, the move sets up direct and fierce competition with America’s own commercial space economy.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Magellan Aerospace has won a $15.8 million contract from the Canadian government to design, build, launch and operate a microsatellite.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
OneWeb is set to complete its first-generation global broadband network in low Earth orbit with one more flight, slated for later this month.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The Vulcan Centaur rocket was transported on rails from United Launch Alliance’s Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) to Space Launch Complex-41.
Space

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

By Garrett Reim
Ispace, which has a lander en route to the Moon, plans to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market on April 12.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The U.S. Space Force has selected four startups to reactivate idled launch complexes at Cape Canaveral.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Boeing is interested in offering commercial Space Launch System flight services to the U.S. Space Force.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
AI produces alien-like bone structures that are lighter and stronger.
Space

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

By Irene Klotz
The newest players in the space industry have some familiar names.
Commercial Space

By Thierry Dubois
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.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
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.
Commercial Space

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

By Guy Norris
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.
Commercial Space