SpaceX

By Mark Carreau
Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky marched through a seven-hour, multitask spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 28.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
Iridium has paused a share buyback program and is considering acquisitions as it looks to adjust to deals.
Commercial Space

By Matthew Fulco
Competition is heating up between the operators of Chinese megaconstellations that intend eventually to challenge SpaceX’s Starlink.
Satellites

By Irene Klotz
Dream Chaser’s debut, originally targeted for 2021, has been repeatedly delayed.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Muon Space plans to launch the first in a series of satellites in 2027 that incorporate laser communications terminals.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
SpaceX's Starship Human Landing System development is behind schedule.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
JAXA, Sierra Space and The Exploration Co. hope their craft will join the fleet of station cargo ships.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Starlink deployments and orbital fueling demos are on tap for the Starship Version 3 flights that SpaceX will begin in 2026.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
SpaceX launched the second batch of operational satellites for the Space Development Agency’s proliferated mesh network on Oct. 15 on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
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.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX’s 11th Starship-Super Heavy launch system completed a 65-min. suborbital flight test Oct. 13.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

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

By Irene Klotz
The defense prime sees new business opportunities for NASA’s deep-space capsule.
Space Exploration

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

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

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force has assigned five future missions to SpaceX and two missions to United Launch Alliance (ULA).
Satellites

By Robert Wall
Taiwan is gearing up to launch the first elements of a high-resolution Earth imaging system next month as it works to burnish its homegrown technology.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
T-Mobile’s satellite-based cellular service, provided by SpaceX’s Starlink, now supports data for a variety of smartphone apps, including video chat software.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX is targeting Oct. 13 for the next Starship-Super Heavy flight test.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall, Thierry Dubois
Space service providers are battling it out in the direct-to-device market.
Commercial Space

By Thierry Dubois, Robert Wall
Launch service providers are promising higher flight cadences—again.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
SpaceX launched the National Reconnaissance Office’s latest mission to build out its proliferated satellite architecture in low Earth orbit.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Taiwan Space Agency is moving ahead with its first domestically developed communications satellite program.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
Astranis has contracted Impulse Space to directly inject its MicroGEO communications satellite into geostationary orbit in 2027 using the Helios kick stage.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
SpaceX is in talks with countries to give them sovereign satellite communications capabilities, says Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president.
Satellites