Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Amid a shortage of rocket motors for munitions, Anduril Industries has acquired Adranos, a manufacturer of solid rocket motors.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz, Michael Bruno
Three months after confirming it was exploring a merger with Intelsat, Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES said June 22 that the talks are off.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy launched a classified mission for the National Reconnaissance Office on June 22.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Ad Astra Rocket Co. has elected two new members to its board of directors.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Vast has selected Impulse Space’s Saiph thrusters for its Haven-1 Space Station.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Tomorrow.io, a startup providing satellite-enabled weather data and services, said it closed an $87 million Series E round of venture capital funding.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Spire Global launched a pair of 6U cubesats with laser communications payloads aboard the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission on June 12.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Westinghouse Electric Company and Astrobotic have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore development of space nuclear technologies.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Boeing is standing down from preparations to launch the long-awaited Crew Flight Test (CFT) of its CST-100 Starliner.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Satellite chip startup SatixFy said Nir Barkan will be acting CEO effective June 1.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Fleet Space Technologies has raised an about $33 million round of Series C funding to further finance its satellite connected geological survey business.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
SWISSto12 has received a contract to build three small geostationary communications satellites for Inmarsat.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Cybersecurity startup Arqit Quantum said May 17 it will sell its satellite business once touted as a new-space partnership with now-bankrupt Virgin Orbit.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite in Europe is still under attack more than a year after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The spacecraft will be designed to perform a wide range of robotic operations on existing satellites.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Space Forge has unveiled additional details about its unfolding, “origami” heat shield for its ForgeStar re-entry vehicle.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Vast and SpaceX plan to launch a commercial space station, named Haven-1, as soon as August 2025.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim, Irene Klotz
Astroscale U.S. and Momentus have submitted a joint bid to boost NASA’s Hubble space telescope to a higher orbit using a robotic spacecraft.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Momentus’ Vigoride-5 space tug has raised its orbit using its microwave electrothermal thruster, a propulsion system that uses distilled water as a propellant.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
While much of NASA’s future human exploration focus falls toward deep space, the agency is not turning its back on low Earth orbit.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Satellite launch startup Orbex has begun construction of its spaceport on the north coast of mainland Scotland.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Europe’s space and telecommunication heavyweights have formed a consortium to bid for the European Union’s IRIS² satellite constellation.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Thai satellite service provider and operator Thaicom has entered a partnership with Japan’s Synspective to provide synthetic aperture radar satellite services.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Lulav Space’s engineers gained experience with lunar guidance, navigation and control via prior work on the Beresheet 1 lunar lander mission in 2019.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Twenty-seven seconds into the flight an “energetic event” caused a communications breakdown with another engine, No. 19.
Commercial Space