Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
Government officials want companies that will serve nation’s civil and military space needs.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The new procurement strategy is intended to boost competition.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Terran Orbital has won a $2.4 billion contract to build 300 small satellites for Rivada Space Networks.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Vast Space, a startup attempting to develop a space station with artificial gravity, has acquired Launcher.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The future of access to space may lie with equatorial launch sites that could make launch windows a thing of the past.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Speaking in Singapore, Scottish Business Minister Ivan McKee shared global ambitions for the nation's commercial space sector.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The FAA says SpaceX failed to file required launch collision-avoidance data ahead of a Falcon 9 launch with a batch of Starlink satellites last August.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Japan was forced to abort the launch of its new H3 rocket after the launch vehicle’s SRB-3 boosters failed to ignite.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is seeking commercial space station design feedback from the U.S. aerospace industry on two fronts.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
European countries need to “reconverge” their space efforts, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said as he reported lower profits for Airbus' Defense and Space unit.
Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic completed the first test flight of the VMS Eve carrier aircraft at Mojave, California, on Feb. 15.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Orbit believes it has identified what caused the premature shut down of LauncherOne’s second-stage Newton 4 engine over the Atlantic.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A pair of 6U science sats, originally slated to piggyback a ride to Mars with NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe, will instead launch aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn.
Commercial Space

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

By Garrett Reim
The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract is part of the Foreign Commercial Imagery Program.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX fired up 32 of the 33 Raptor engines on its first Starship/Super Heavy booster for a static hot-fire on Feb. 9.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Small satellites dominated the space industry in terms of numbers, accounting for 95% of all spacecraft launched in 2022, according to a report by Bryce Tech.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX is taking steps to prevent Starlink technology provided to Ukraine from being used for offensive military purposes.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX will attempt to test-fire the 33 Raptor engines of its first Starship/Super Heavy booster on Feb. 9.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A static firing of Super Heavy’s 33 Merlin engines is the last major milestone before debut launch.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Spacetug developer Exotrail of France has raised a $58 million Series B round.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
The International Space Station is nearing a challenging stretch.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The cloud-computing company sees space as the next frontier for its technology.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The company is developing Starlab, a privately run space station in low Earth orbit, planned for launch in 2028.
Commercial Space

The 109-ft.-tall Vulcan booster and 38 1/2-ft. Centaur V upper stage arrived in Florida on Jan. 21.
Space