Space

RFA was granted £3.5 million ($4.3 million) by the UK Space Agency.

After 11 years of cooperation with Arianespace, Avio is preparing to become a launch service operator itself in the coming months.

Suborbital space tourism provider Virgin Galactic is laying off workers to fund production of the Delta variant of its spaceships, the company said late Nov. 7.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) held a space forum at Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, from 15 to 17 February 2023, which included discussions focused on developing threats, current space capability, theatre command and control architectures and processes.

Nearly 2,000 cubesats have been launched in the past 20 years.

The European Space Agency’s newly launched Euclid telescope has captured a smattering of sharp, wide-field images of galaxies near and far.

The type, a step down in size from cubesats, is popular for experiments and tech demos.

The demo would be led by the Space Technology Mission Directorate.

Norway’s Andøya Spaceport has opened new facilities to enable satellite launches from the High North of Scandinavia.

China’s iSpace has completed the country’s first test of a reusable rocket, performing a 50-sec. "hop" with the first stage of its Hyperbola-2 launch vehicle.

SpaceX’s internet-beaming Starlink satellite division has reached cash flow breakeven, CEO Elon Musk says.

NASA has rescheduled the planned launch of an International Space Station resupply mission from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9 because of a nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer leak.

Retired U. S. Navy Rear Admiral Thomas K. Mattingly II, who served as NASA’s Apollo 16 mission command pilot and went on to lead two space shuttle missions, passed away on Oct. 31

A new rocket engine for military uses could be repurposed for Mach 9 air travel—listen in as editors talk with the founders of far-out startup Venus Aerospace.

The SwRI's Alan Stern and two other paying passengers joined a Virgin Galactic crew for a short suborbital hop on Nov. 2.

Highly anticipated data from the Nov. 1, 12:54 p.m. EDT flyby will take up to a week to reach the Earth over NASA's Deep Space Network.

This year’s Dubai Airshow is set to be the biggest on record, with 1,400+ exhibitors from 95 countries and visitor numbers expected to grow from last year’s edition.

In this TATV Spotlight programme, Dave Falberg, Vice President of Satcom Direct International, a leader in global satellite communications solutions, explains how the new generation of its Plane Simple antenna system is rolling out to the business jet market.

With this fresh funding round, Skyroot has raised a total of $95 million, top among Indian space startups.

Ovzon of Sweden plans to launch its Ovzon 3 geostationary communications satellite, which has an antenna that can generate steerable spot beams, as soon as December 2023.

Two NASA astronauts executed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station’s U.S. segment on Nov. 1.

The divestiture follows a tumultuous year for SatixFy, in which the Israeli startup has seen five CEOs following the death of its co-founder in April 2022.

Dómhnal Slattery has a new job as chairman of a startup looking to commercialize a centrifuge-based mass accelerator for space access called SpinLaunch.

Sierra Space is poised to deliver the first Dream Chaser spaceplane from its site near Denver to NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio.

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.