Space

Jonathan Cirtain has been appointed Axiom Space's chief executive officer (CEO), the Houston-based commercial space enterprise announced Oct. 15.

SpaceX is now authorized to double its current annual launch cadence from Vandenberg SFB, California, and to launch its Falcon Heavy from the Western Range.

Two Texas senators have asked two other senators to stave off possible efforts to halt the relocation of NASA’s shuttle orbiter Discovery.

With a new facility online and $1 billion in valuation, the young startup says it is poised to build satellite buses for generations to come.

As Tom Mueller, founder and CEO of Impulse Space, sees it, the market for transporting cargo to the Moon has a missing middle.

Q&A with H.E. Eng. Salem Butti Salem Al Qubaisi on UAE's space vision: Mars missions, asteroid exploration, investment, global partnerships & economic diversification.

Data Arianespace collected on the Ariane 6 is evidence of the level of its engineering, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) said Oct. 14.

Spanish startup PLD Space says it is completing critical design reviews of its Miura 5 launcher as it works toward a somewhat delayed first flight next year.

SpaceX’s 11th Starship-Super Heavy launch system completed a 65-min. suborbital flight test Oct. 13.

iRocket reports a successful flight test of the company’s 2.75-in. IRX-100 version of the Hydra 70 rocket system.

The Swiss government is looking to expand its military space capacity to field a range of capabilities, including counter-space, to safeguard its troops.

Today’s satellites are cheaper, but hardly cheap. The CEO of a propulsion supplier joins us to explain why.

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

Earth Observation company Planet is developing a new satellite it calls “Owl” to provide near-daily, 1-meter class imagery, the company announced Oct. 7.

The U.S. Air Force will need at least a decade to adopt new technology that can facilitate dynamic spectrum-sharing, Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, the service chief of staff nominee, said Oct. 9.

The U.S. Space Force expects to launch the next Space Development Agency (SDA) mission on Oct. 14 from Vandenberg SFB, California, with six backup windows available, Space Launch Delta (SLD) 30 said Oct. 8.

NASA has contracted Momentus to use its Vigoride orbital service vehicle as a testbed to demonstrate a rotating detonation rocket engine in space in 2026.

Stoke Space has raised $510 million in a Series D funding round led by US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT).

Dark, a French startup developing a vehicle for the capture of low-Earth-orbit objects, has ceased operations, the company announced Oct. 8.

The defense prime sees new business opportunities for NASA’s deep-space capsule.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded space remote sensing company Muon Space a multi-million-dollar weather monitoring contract.

Every year a consultancy publishes a new 10-year forecast of satellite launches, and the estimate grows to previously unbelievable totals.

Russian uncrewed aircraft maker Geoscan has revealed plans to launch satellite constellations for Earth mapping and communication services.

Liftoff of New Shepard with six international crewmembers took place under a partly cloudy sky at Launch Site One near Van Horn in West Texas at 9:40 a.m. EDT.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe sees increasingly frequent satellite signal jamming and spoofing.