Commercial Space

The ESA has awarded The Exploration Company and Thales Alenia Space separate contracts to continue work to develop low-Earth-orbit cargo return services.

Satellite bus manufacturer is critical to national security program but is in financial trouble.

Venture capital firm Seraphim Space has announced its latest accelerator cohort of nine startups.

The leak initially appeared during the countdown for launch of the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6.

Chinese commercial space company CAS Space plans to introduce suborbital space tourism, unveiling a "space traveler" capsule that will seat seven passengers.

The company suggests leveraging NASA’s deep investment in the SLS may be just the ticket to bring back samples from Mars.

AST SpaceMobile has signed a commercial agreement with AT&T to provide satellite-based cellular service to the company’s customers.

Terran Orbital’s revenue fell 3% to $27.2 million for the period ended March 31, it disclosed in a financial filing with the SEC on May 14.

The leak was noted during Starliner’s initial launch attempt on May 6.

SpinLaunch Chairman Dómhnal Slattery described the transition as a “natural progression.”

Designed with mobility in mind, the SpaceX Crew Dragon pressure suits have been upgraded for extravehicular activities.

Suborbital space tourism company Virgin Galactic is eyeing a 2028 entry-into-service for its next new mothership.

The first launch of Rocket Lab’s proposed medium-lift Neutron is slipping to no earlier than mid-2025 due to development of its Archimedes engine.

It’s been a big year for United Launch Alliance, the Lockheed Martin- and Boeing-owned joint venture that has been remaking itself for the commercial space age.

The long-awaited crewed debut of Boeing’s Starliner caps off a 13-year effort to certify multiple commercial providers of low-Earth-orbit astronaut transport.

Startup Danti has raised $5 million to further develop its natural language processing satellite image search engine.

NASA on May 1 selected nine companies for a dozen concept studies aimed at expanding the exploration of Mars.

The company plans to issue 20.8 million shares, with an offering price to be posted on May 27, according to a financial filing with the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

The country is shaking up space exploration, commerce and the broader geopolitical picture.

Firefly Aerospace and Northrop Grumman remain on track to debut the new Antares 330 launch vehicle in 2025.

European satellite communications provider SES is to buy U.S.-based rival Intelsat in a bid to tackle competition from other low-Earth-orbit services.

SpaceX took on the mission of delivering two new members of Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system into orbit on April 28.

Hanwha Systems has broken ground on its new Jeju Hanwha Space Center, a purpose-built South Korea facility for the manufacturing and testing of satellites.

NASA and Boeing on April 25 completed the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for the long-awaited CST-100 Starliner crewed flight test (CFT).

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