Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
AST SpaceMobile has raised $115 million in debt, enough to fully fund the manufacturing of its first five cellular signal broadcasting BlueBird satellites.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Telesat is switching contractors to build satellites for its planned Lightspeed broadband communications network.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Astranis plans to launch by year’s end its UtilitySat, a multiband and relocatable small communications satellite.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
German satellite launcher developer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has secured €30 million ($32.8 million) from global investment firm KKR.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Using inputs from the fledging HAPS industry, Frontex believes HAPS would be useful for Earth observation.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The offerings are built around a new family of vehicles known as Elytra (a term for the wings of a firefly).
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The spacecraft originally were to fly on separate missions on startup ABL Space Systems’ RS1.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Benchmark Space Systems, a propulsion systems manufacturer, has raised a $33 million Series B round.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin has opened a 20,000-ft.2 small satellite assembly facility at its Waterton campus in Littleton, Colorado.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Pale Blue has won a contract to provide its Resitojet water-vapor based propulsion system for a pair of 6U cubesats.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Impulse Space plans two follow-on missions in 2024 after its inaugural LEO Express 1 mission before year’s end.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Axiom, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have all flown privately paying passengers into orbital and suborbital space from the U.S.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Kleos Space, a startup that sought to make and offer a satellite constellation for radio frequency monitoring, is filing for bankruptcy.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The startup plans to develop its largest space vehicle, the Helios.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
Ukraine has depended on Starlink for expansive battlefield communication.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Intuitive Machines has completed a test run of its Nova-C lunar lander at its facilities in Houston.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
HawkEye 360 has raised a $58 million round of capital that will be used to fund new radio frequency sensing satellites.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
Voyager and IN-SPACe will also “seek additional collaboration opportunities with various stakeholders within the Indian space ecosystem.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Sidus Space and Lulav Space plan to launch an event-based star tracker in June 2024.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The company has spent the last three years investing in in-space servicing, propulsion and robotic technology to develop a prototype AMU.
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