A retired Space Force general who served as deputy commander of U.S. Space Command is joining the board of lunar rover developer Lunar Outpost.
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SAN FRANCISCO β BlackSky announced Aug. 11 a seven-figure, multiyear contract to provide an international customer with persistent space-based monitoring and on-demand satellite tasking. Prior to the award, BlackSky conducted [β¦]
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Rocket Lab warned that the chances of launching its Neutron rocket for the first time before the end of the year are βnarrowingβ despite progress on the vehicleβs development.
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Named βGHOSTβ the containerized infrastructure is designed to support orbital and suborbital launches
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The majority owner of Rocket Factory Augsburg is still confident the company will conduct its first orbital launch attempt this year despite a setback in testing.
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WARSAW, Poland β The Lithuanian space laser communications company Astrolight has signed a memorandum of understanding with ATMOS Space Cargo, to demonstrate in-flight optical communications link between a reentry spacecraft [β¦]
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The company that developed a spacecraft to boost the orbit of a NASA observatory says it is making progress in recovering from its own spacecraftβs problems.
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Northrop Grumman and the Canadian Space Agency will adapt what they had been working on for NASAβs lunar Gateway into applications for a planned lunar base, albeit with few specifics.
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The European Commission has reached an agreement with an industrial consortium to proceed with a secure connectivity constellation, increasing the number of satellites as well as its cost.
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A Redwire subsidiary working on space biotech and pharmaceutical applications has signed an agreement to fly microgravity research payloads on SpaceXβs Starfall reentry vehicle.
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Rockets, rovers and landers have dominated the attention of the commercial space industry as the United States focuses on sending humans back to the moon, but a handful of companies [β¦]
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Rocket Lab launched a Japanese radar-imaging satellite Aug. 6, more than a month after the previous launch attempt was aborted.
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HELSINKI β Commercial launch company Orienspace has kicked off preparations for an IPO coaching process while closing a funding round for accelerating its reusable Gravity-2 rocket. The Shandong-based company, formally [β¦]
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Blue Origin has traced the explosion of its New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test in May to a valve in the rocketβs BE-4 engine.
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Another wave of constellations has staked claims for communications satellites in non-geostationary orbit (NGSO), but what hope do newcomers have alongside the industryβs entrenched, vertically integrated giants? A mix of [β¦]
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The mood was celebratory at the ribbon-cutting for Muon Spaceβs San Jose, California, manufacturing facility in June. State, local, United States Space Force and Pentagon representatives lauded the startup and, [β¦]
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Neuraspace, the Portuguese space traffic management startup, announced around $18 million in fresh funding Aug. 5 to expand European space domain awareness and defense capabilities.
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Voyager Technologies remains upbeat about the prospects for its Starlab commercial space station but is hoping for some tweaks to NASAβs plans to support the stationβs development.
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SpaceX plans to start deploying upgraded Starlink satellites into orbit on the next flight of its Starship vehicle, scheduled for as soon as the end of the month.
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Arctic communications award will fund an expansion of Telesatβs Lightspeed, taking the planned LEO network to 225 spacecraft
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