Funding rounds, contract awards, launch market share, and the companies quietly becoming infrastructure.
A NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract has been awarded by the agency to Relativity Space Inc., and its Terran R launch service in accordance with…
European space logistics startup The Exploration Company has raised $450 million (€387 million) in a Series C funding round to support the…
Along Missile Row at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Stoke Space and Relativity Space are… The post Cape neighbors Stoke and Relativity advance…
Blue Origin is expanding its Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral footprint on multiple fronts,… The post Blue Origin expands test and launch…
Blue Origin will design and launch the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter by the end of 2028.
With Rocket Lab targeting to launch its Neutron vehicle by the end of this year,… The post Rocket Lab’s Hungry Hippo completes testing appeared…
German launch services provider HyImpulse announced on 2 September that it had extended its Series A funding round by more than €50 million, bringing…
NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract Tuesday to develop the agency’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-generation communications system that…
Spanish launch services provider PLD Space has secured an additional €108 million in funding, extending the Series C round to €288 million. The…
The European Space Agency has signed the first contracts under its European Launcher Challenge, committing a combined €543.6 million to Isar…
SALT LAKE CITY – The Aerospace Corp. is continuing to demonstrate the viability of pancake-shaped DiskSats in the wake of their December launch on a…
Houston — World Space Week Association announced today that Tory Bruno, President of National Security at Blue Origin, will serve as Honorary Chair…
HELSINKI — A Chinese startup building a constellation to detect and geolocate radio-frequency emissions from orbit has closed a funding round as…
The White House released a new space transportation policy today, the first since 2013. The new policy has a strong emphasis on government support…
Rocket Lab launched another satellite for Japanese radar-imaging company iQPS on Aug. 20. The post Rocket Lab launches 9th satellite for iQPS…
America’s space economy is scaling faster than its industrial base can support. Commercial constellations are proliferating, national security…
Firefly Aerospace will fly a payload from Zeno Power on an upcoming lunar lander mission to test a radioisotope heat source to enable future…
The company will use a Photon spacecraft to test interoperability with the Space Data Network's core infrastructure built by SpaceX The post Rocket…
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