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

By Mark Carreau
The effort is using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), located about 50 mi. west of Socorro, New Mexico.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Japanese startup ALE plans to launch another Sky Canvas satellite in 2024 that will dispense artificial meteorites.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic completed the first glide flight of the updated SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity from Spaceport America in New Mexico on April 26.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
HawkEye recently launched its seventh cluster of three satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Relativity Space is focusing on a rapid test series for its liquid oxygen/methane (LOx/CH4) Aeon R rocket engine.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The FAA has issued a vehicle operator license to SpaceX for the first orbital flight test of its Starship/Super Heavy launch system.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Small geostationary satellite provider Astranis on April 14 announced a $250 million Series C financing round.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ispace of Japan plans to attempt touching down on the Moon with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander as soon as April 25.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
The update comes after Relativity Space’s mostly 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on March 22 but failed to reach orbit.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Boeing has delivered its third and fourth O3b mPOWER satellites to communications company SES.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Space transport startup Dawn Aerospace plans to begin gradual envelope expansion flights of its suborbital Mk-2 Aurora spaceplane.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Startup Loft Orbital has doubled its order from Airbus OneWeb Satellites to 30 spacecraft, the company said April 6.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital booster failed during an uncrewed Sept. 12 launch due to structural fatigue on the engine nozzle.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Dawn Aerospace’s Mk-II Aurora spaceplane has received an aircraft certification from the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space is moving on to tests of its inflatable habitat technology with hard structures inside the pressure shell.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
After a controlled burn lasting several minutes from its main propulsion system, ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander entered the Moon’s orbit on March 21.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Commerce Dept. has finished a pilot program to demonstrate the ability of the U.S. to track objects in GEO using commercial data and analytic services.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
OneWeb intends to look beyond OneWeb Satellites, which it jointly owns with Airbus, for a manufacturing partner for its next-generation constellation.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Space Force plans to set up an organized reserve of commercial space capabilities to augment military satellites when needed.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Amazon on March 14 unveiled a trio of customer terminals to support the network’s global broadband communications.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
The company also announced March 13 that it has an agreement with Rivada Space Networks.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Pale Blue of Tokyo says it successfully demonstrated its water vapor propulsion system in low Earth orbit aboard Sony’s EYE nanosatellite.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ispace, which has a lander en route to the Moon, plans to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market on April 12.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Lonestar Data Holdings, a startup developing a data center for Moon-based operations, has raised $5 million in a seed round.
Commercial Space