Commercial Space

Part of the problem of using a solid rocket motor to deorbit is that the type can generate slag.

SpaceX has announced plans for its sixth commercial private astronaut mission.

The Edge Node satellites will carry a variety of RPO sensors onboard and software to be tested for future cubesat-scale satellites.

Plumbing and wiring were removed or incorporated into the new engine’s primary structure.

Ispace distributed an image of a Komatsu tracked excavator on the lunar surface as part of its Aug. 8 announcement.

Suborbital space tourism company Virgin Galactic has revealed new details of its long-term business model.

L3 Harris has signed a contract for up to 20 launches aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket.

Impulse Space has debuted a space tug program to carry satellites to geostationary orbit.

The Space Systems Command’s System Engineering Review Board recommended the fueling port.

The Small Satellite Conference (SmallSat) will move to the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City beginning next year.

Water-based thruster specialist Pale Blue plans to demonstrate an ion thruster in early 2025.

Muon Space, an end-to-end space systems provider, has raised $56.7 million in a Series B funding round.

The DSMP satellite fleet has been in service since the early 1960s.

Blue Origin says it has resolved a problem that impaired operation of one of three parachutes on the last flight of its New Shepard suborbital system.

The Lafayette, Colorado-based company will also increase its UK-based workforce to 15 employees and open a new office in Oxfordshire.

ABL uses a deployable ground system that can be set up on a flat concrete pad.

Space Infrastructure Ventures on July 12 agreed to provide up to $2.3 million via a convertible note until Sept. 1.

The take-private deal marks a near-complete reversal from the $2.6 billion valuation that the startup sported when it became a publicly traded company.

The Series B will bolster the Albuquerque, New Mexico, startup’s expansion plans for a new solid rocket motor factory in Luling, Texas.

Ovzon says its Ovzon 3 small geostationary orbit communications satellite is ready to start commercial service.

Orbit Fab has successfully demonstrated the automated docking of its in-space refueling technology.

The designation enables Space Florida to tap the Florida Department of Transportation’s Spaceport Improvement Program.

Europe’s Eumetsat agency is turning to SpaceX to deliver its Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) weather satellite into orbit in 2025.

Amazon executives formally opened the company’s Project Kuiper internet satellite factory on June 27.

Starfish Space is to extend the life of an aging Intelsat communications satellite in geostationary orbit using its Otter servicing spacecraft starting in 2026.