Space

Katalyst Space won a $30 million Small Business Innovation Research contract from NASA to attempt to save a space telescope from reentering the atmosphere.

Blue Origin is developing three new suborbital New Shepard launch systems and mulling expanding flight services beyond West Texas, the company said Sept. 28.

Deloitte is using its first internally funded satellite to game out on-orbit cyber attacks with a new system that could bolster the resiliency of current and future spacecraft.

Ispace of Japan has signed a memorandum of understand with ElevationSpace to develop a private lunar sample return mission.

Blue Origin has delayed plans for its New Glenn rocket to return to the launchpad.

The SpaceRise consortium looking to run the European Union’s future IRIS² satellite communications system has kicked off the competition for the ground segment.

The UK Space Agency on Sept. 25 said it is setting up the Satellite Gateway Services program to foster local businesses by acting as an anchor customer.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has spelled out a €35 billion ($40 billion) commitment for the military space sector through the end of the decade.

NASA says it is “no longer obligated” to order International Space Station resupply missions from Sierra Space using the company’s Dream Chaser spaceplane.

Axiom Space has contracted with the Redwire Corp. for a Roll-Out Solar Array for a component of a planned replacement for the International Space Station.

Airbus has signed an agreement with Arianespace to launch two German military communication satellites on Ariane 6 rockets.

Lasers, maneuvering satellites and spaceplanes are getting more attention as Western militaries look to counter threats to their space systems.

U.S. Space Command is planning a second on-orbit demonstration with partner nation France.

Future U.S. Space Force program solicitations may include one or two extra spacecraft to serve as on-orbit testbeds or aggressor trainers.

Voyager Technologies has contracted Vivace Corp. to manufacture the primary structure of the Starlab commercial space station.

The U.S. Space Force wants its next-generation space situational awareness satellites to have a refueling capability.

The four crewmembers of NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission say they are ready to embrace launching two months earlier than planned if preparations fall into place.

Firefly Aerospace has sold data it collected during its lunar land Blue Ghost Mission 1 to NASA for $10 million.

Isar Aerospace is starting to build its backlog for launches ahead of the inaugural flight of is Spectrum rocket planned before year end.

Spacecraft developer Quantum Space has acquired the “propulsion assets” of Phase Four.

Space service providers are battling it out in the direct-to-device market.

Launch service providers are promising higher flight cadences—again.

The window for NASA’s Artemis II mission that aims to take four astronauts around the Moon could open as early as Feb. 5.

The U.S. Space Force is preparing a new document meant to serve as the “authoritative source” for requirements planning through 2040.

As Virgin Galactic continues assembly of the first of its new Delta-class spaceplanes, the company has revealed an early research mission will be flown with an all-Purdue University payload crew.