SpaceX

By Robert Wall
Commercial space station developer Vast says it has secured $500 million in additional funding to help underpin plans to deploy its Haven orbital outpost.
Space Exploration

By Michael Bruno
Future SpaceX shareholders should be ready for a regular wild ride where the Elon Musk company’s stock price skyrockets or plummets 20-30%.
Commercial Space

By Ben Goldstein
Archer Aviation has begun piloted vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) flight testing of its Midnight eVTOL aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s 33rd NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station executed a successful splashdown early Feb. 27.
Operations & Safety

By Irene Klotz
A pair of deputy managers have taken the reins of NASA’s portfolio of low-Earth-orbit programs
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
NASA is expected to soon disclose the next steps in its evolving strategy to develop commercial low Earth orbit successors to the International Space Station.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
NASA has reclassified Boeing’s 2024 CST-Starliner Crew Flight Test as a Category A Mishap and cited agency leadership failings.
Operations & Safety

By Matthew Fulco
The Southern California-based Advanced Manufacturing Company of America (Amca) has purchased Payne Magnetics for an undisclosed sum.
Supply Chain

By Vivienne Machi
Astrolight plans to demonstrate its new laser communications terminals in space for the first time following the launch of SpaceX’s Transporter-16 mission.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Crew-12 mission has docked to the U.S. segment of the ISS, returning the orbital lab’s fulltime population to seven for the first time since Jan. 14.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
—Arianespace achieved a double-first with the inaugural flight of the Ariane 64 launcher configuration and satellite deployment.
Satellites

By Graham Warwick
A U.S. startup is commercializing technology to 3D print conformal batteries.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA and SpaceX on Feb. 10 once again pushed back the launch of the four-person Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station due to weather conditions.
Space Exploration

By Vivienne Machi
Commercial space startup Momentus and NASA will partner on an in-space servicing mission in low Earth orbit.
Satellites

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX, the world’s leading launch company, has announced a strategic shift to develop its own lunar program.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
SpaceX’s purchase of xAI marries Elon Musk’s love of artificial intelligence and space.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
SpaceX’s market capitalization as a publicly traded company is being hotly debated ahead of an expected midyear initial public offering.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket failed to execute a planned engine burn to deorbit, the company said late Feb. 2.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
SpaceX has acquired artificial intelligence company xAI, days after the space company disclosed plans for a vast constellation of data center satellites.
Satellites

By Tony Osborne
SpaceX has unveiled a speed limit for Starlink receivers in Ukraine to prevent Russia from using the sat communications technology to control attack drones.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
SpaceX has shared plans to deploy a vast network of data center satellites in the most ambitious bid yet to shift computer processing capability to space.
Satellites

By Mark Carreau
NASA is flexing plans to restore the International Space Station (ISS) to its usual seven crewmembers.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
SpaceX says it has developed a space situational awareness system it will make available to others to mitigate the risk of collisions.
Operations & Safety