Space

As the global appetite for orbital launches continues to grow, the competition among new and old space companies to build bigger and better launch vehicles is firing up. It can be hard to keep up with this fast-paced yet incredibly complex and highly regulated industry — but everything you need

NASA and the space industry are in agreement: If we want to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, we'll need to make use of every native resource we can — and none are as important as water ice.  Starpath Robotics is one of a handful of startups planning for this future. The

A pair of Rocket Lab-made spacecraft are about to embark on a two-step journey. The first step is the 55-hour, 2,500-mile stretch from California to the launch site at Cape Canaveral. The second step? Just 11 months and 230 million miles to Mars.  The objective of the Escape and Plasma Accelerati

Lockheed Martin is sweeping in to save satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital from its dwindling cash reserves and mounting debt, in a $450 million take-private deal that's expected to close before the end of the year.  The defense giant will buy Terran for $0.25 per share and retire its e

A new commercial space mission will take off as early as this winter to observe the polar regions from low orbit — the first crewed mission to ever do so. It’s charmingly and anachronistically named Fram2, after the famous icebreaker used by Norwegian national hero Fridtjof Nansen to explor

Rocket Lab surpassed $100 million in quarterly revenue for the first time, a 71% increase from the same quarter of last year. This is just one of several shiny accomplishments executives showed off to investors on Thursday — and a good omen for the space company’s medium-term ambitious plan

Rocket launch providers, satellite operators, and even aviation companies rely on accurate predictions about “space weather,” like solar flares and geomagnetic storms, to inform their operations. But this vital information is still supplied mainly by governments using inaccurate, older modeling

EtherealX, an Indian space startup, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round as it plans to develop fully reusable medium-lift launch vehicles, making satellite launches cost-effective and time-efficient. Space launches have multiplied in recent years. However, despite the number of players,

Space-as-a-service startup Muon Space closed a $56.7 million fundraising round to scale its satellite platform, while also announcing a new deal with defense giant Sierra Nevada Corp.  California-based Muon designs, builds and operates satellites in low Earth orbit on behalf of customers. Some cu

Commercial space station company Vast is building a private microgravity research lab as part of its wider Haven-1 station plans. The module is set to launch no earlier than the second half of 2025, the company said Thursday.  The lab includes 10 payload slots that are equivalent to 10 “middeck

Regulators have given SpaceX the all-clear to return to launch with the Falcon 9 rocket two weeks after the vehicle experienced an anomaly on orbit. It's a quick turnaround for the space company, which had to conduct an investigation overseen by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, identi

Our growth as a civilization is tightly coupled to our ability to sufficiently generate ever-increasing amounts of electricity. Could the same be true in space?  Star Catcher Industries, a startup just emerging from stealth today, is betting that might be the case. The company is developing a

Astranis has fully funded its next-generation satellite program, called Omega, after closing its $200 million Series D round, the company said Wednesday.  “This next satellite is really the milestone into the next frontier for Astranis,” Megan Sapack, Astranis' avionics lead, said in

Mesa, Arizona-based Rosotics has kept a low profile. From the startup's website, one would think they are solely focused on selling large metal 3D printers to aerospace and defense customers.   For the past three years, the company's been quietly architecting plans that involve launch