Commercial Space

A privately owned lunar lander slated to fly aboard the first United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket arrived in Florida on Oct. 30 for launch preparations.

Sidus Space continues to shuffle its management with the departure of its chief technology officer, Jamie Adams, who was also a director on its board.

“We arrived at strategic business decisions regarding our spectrum allocation,” Michelle Parker, vice president, Boeing Space Mission Systems, wrote.

Ship remote control service Seafar is integrating neXat, a satellite communications service, into its remote ship navigation technology.

The original launch date for IM's Nova-C lunar lander—from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket—was planned for as soon as mid-November.

It’s been a rough month for small satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The service’s broader commercial space strategy remains under consideration within the Pentagon.

The ambitious mission to explore seven asteroids is targeted to launch in March 2028.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is targeting Dec. 24 for the first launch of its Vulcan-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral SFS.

Europe’s space workforce grew by 8.2% in 2022 over the prior year, the Space Foundation says in a quarterly report on the state of the space industry.

The company is developing a large spacecraft to transport, host, refuel and provide data and other services for multiple payloads.

Axiom Space is nearing completion of its Hab One pressure vessel.

A company has announced a “record-setting” $100 million “seed” round of venture capital investment toward its proposed platform for lunar transportation.

A team of European rocket developers are to help prove German ambitions for sat launch at sea with a series of suborbital launches planned for spring 2024.

Eutelsat OneWeb says its low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellation has connected to a terrestrial 5G mobile network.

Berkeley Space Center, unveiled Oct. 16, could see employment for more than 6,000 researchers and developers in astronautics, quantum computing and more.

Shield Capital—which was founded in 2021 and invests in areas such as AI, space, autonomy and cyber security—says it has raised $186 million for the fund.

Space companies have an opportunity to think through the environmental impact of their booming industry.

Multiorbit satellite services seem to be a trend, and some systems will be highlighted at NBAA-BACE.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Proteus Space, a startup satellite developer, closed a $4.2 million seed round to create an automated, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system to design ESPA-class satellites in 30 days.

The company plans to develop a fully autonomous docking system for the Cygnus.

Planet Labs has delivered its Pelican-1 Earth imaging satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of a planned launch in November.

Amazon becomes a satellite operator.