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Update: The launch is now scheduled for January 19. The below text has been updated to reflect the new launch date. Axiom Space is gearing up to launch its third fully private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Here's all you need to know. The crew of four

Impulse Space revealed more details today about its next product, a high-energy kick stage called Helios, that could make getting to geosynchronous orbit cheaper than ever before. The vast majority of spacecraft are launched to low Earth orbit, or LEO, which is at an altitude of 1,200 miles or less

Sierra Space is joining Rocket Lab as a current or formerly VC-backed space company to land a major satellite deal with the military. The Space Development Agency (SDA) selected Sierra, along with Lockheed Martin and L3Harris, to build 54 satellites in deals collectively worth $2.5 billion. The new

Follow the space industry long enough and you'll notice that an outsized number of catastrophic failures of satellites or launch vehicles can be traced to a physically small but ubiquitous part: valves. Valves play a critical role in the spacecraft’s architecture, regulating the flow of p

NASA is pushing back the next two Artemis missions to the moon — including the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years — by around 12 months in order to give commercial partners more time to develop their technology. Artemis II is now scheduled for no earlier than September 2025 and Ar

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. By the time you read this, United Launch Alliance wl have hopefully launched its Vulcan Centaur rocket for the first time, and Astrobotic's Peregrine lander wl be on its way to the moon. More on the mission below. Other than the same-old news round up, I’l

ABL Space Systems is looking to raise up to $100 million in new funding, and has just closed over $40 million, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company filed the Form D on December 29. It's the first indication that ABL has raised venture funding s

The Space Development Agency is the mystery customer behind Rocket Lab's up-to $515 million, 18-satellite order announced in late December, the two firms announced today. In a regulatory filing from December 21, Rocket Lab said it would “design, manufacture, deliver and operate 18 space vehic

After a successful launch on United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket this morning, Astrobotic Technology said its lunar lander has encountered critical issues with the propellant system that have likely taken a moon landing off the table for good. In a devastating series of updates earli

It's hard to understate just how much was at stake in Monday's early morning launch of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket: multiple major reputations, billions of dollars, a new moon lander, the country's dreams for lunar exploration, brand new rocket engines flying for

The countdown to launch is on. United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket has been rolled to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of its early Monday morning launch, a mission that could end with the first fully private spacecraft landing on the moon. Vulcan's prim

Satellite imagery and machine learning offer a new, far more detailed look at the maritime industry, specifically the number and activities of fishing and transport ships at sea. Turns out there are way more of them than publicly available data would suggest, a fact that policymakers should heed. A

SpaceX launched its first batch of Starlink satellites that will be able to connect directly to cell phones ahead of planned testing later this year. The company launched six Starlink satellites with this capability with a batch of 15 other Starlink birds aboard a Falcon 9 rocket late last night. S

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint alleging that SpaceX illegally fired eight employees who wrote and distributed an open letter with workplace concerns. Circulated in June 2022, the open letter called out how SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk’s public behavior was har