Startup Albedo has raised a $35 million Series A-1 funding round and plans to use the cash infusion to launch its first operational imagery satellite, Sat-1.
NASA's PACE mission is set to provide higher-resolution insight into complex interactions among the Earth's oceans, atmospheric aerosols and cloud formations.
JAXA has temporarily powered down its ailing lunar lander so that it has sufficient power to restart the craft once the Sun shines on it at the right angle.
Sierra Space has successfully completed an ultimate burst pressure test of a full-size inflatable space station module, rupturing the structure at 77 psi.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket kicked off the planned 14-day Axiom-3 (Ax-3) mission with launch at 4:49 p.m. EST from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.
Test personnel at Stennis Space Center have successfully conducted the fourth in a second round of 12 ground test firings of the upgraded RS-25 rocket engine.
Astrobotic is projecting its troubled Peregrine lunar lander will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean two days earlier than previous estimates.
The latest delays in NASA’s Artemis lunar program signal deep-seated cost and technical issues as well as a lack of sufficient oversight that must be addressed.
Space tech companies largely shrugged off 2023’s broad slowdown in VC investment given their strategic importance, according to the latest Seraphim Space Index.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has appointed Kurt “Spuds” Vogel to serve as the agency’s associate administrator in charge of the STMD, effective Jan. 16.
The U.S. Space Development Agency has awarded three companies $2.5 billion worth of contracts to supply 54 Tranche 2 missile Tracking Layer satellites.
The seven-year REMIS-2 agreement runs to Sept. 30, 2030, with an option to extend it through Sept. 30, 2032, according to a Jan. 12 NASA award announcement.
Space-tug startup Momentus may have received a fatal blow after losing the U.S. Space Development Agency’s recent competition for 18 Tranche 2 satellites.
