Space

Bill Weber is out as chief executive at Firefly Aerospace, following a nearly two-year stint in the role, the maker of launch vehicles, lunar landers and orbital vehicles announced late Wednesday. While the board initiates a search for a new CEO, board member Peter Schumacher will serve as interi

The $843 million spacecraft SpaceX is designing to bring down the International Space Station at the end of the decade will be a super-powered version of its Dragon capsule that's used to transport astronauts and cargo to orbit today, the company revealed Wednesday.  NASA awarded SpaceX t

Elon Musk is doubling down on his commitment to Texas by vowing to move SpaceX's massive headquarters from its long-time Hawthorne, California home to the Lone Star State.  Musk later said that he would move the headquarters of his social media platform X from San Francisco, California, t

Scientists have identified what they believe is an accessible tunnel or cave on the moon. Such a feature, if real, may well define years of development by startups, governments and space companies aiming to create a lasting lunar colony. Italian astronomers led by Leonardo Carrer and Lorenzo Bruzz

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is the most reliable launch vehicle in history, but even the greats have an occasional miss. That's what happened on Thursday evening, when the rocket's second stage suffered a catastrophic error on orbit during a routine launch of a batch of Starlink internet s

Astra CEO Chris Kemp is already pulling out of a parking spot when he warns the person in the passenger seat that he doesn't have a valid driver's license. “And the car's not registered, and they canceled my insurance,” he says. “This is a little risky.” So opens “Wild Wi

When early SpaceX engineer Bulent Altan and long-time investor Joram Voelklein surveyed the European space sector at the end of the 2010s, they were surprised: It looked a whole lot like the beginnings of American NewSpace in the early 2000s, when SpaceX and other companies were just setting up sho

Europe's next-generation launch vehicle, the Ariane 6, is poised to lift off for the first time tomorrow, as the continent looks to build out sovereign access to space and ensure European missions are launched by European rockets.  The heavy-lift rocket will launch from the Guiana Space C

Sidney Scott decided to take himself out of the venture capital rat race and is now jokingly auctioning off his vests — starting at $500,000.  The Driving Forces solo general partner announced on LinkedIn this week that he was shutting down his $5 million fintech and deep tech VC fund that

SpaceX's ambitious plans to launch its Starship mega-rocket up to 44 times per year from NASA's Kennedy Space Center are causing a stir among some of its competitors. Late last month, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance submitted comments calling on regulators to ensure minimal disruptio

Starfish Space and aerospace giant Intelsat have signed a new satellite servicing agreement that could permanently change the paradigm for satellite operations. Under the contract, Starfish will use its Otter satellite docking spacecraft to boost the orbit of an operational Intelsat satellite in g

Less than a year after closing its seed round, software-for-hardware startup Sift announced a $17.5 million Series A led by Google’s venture capital arm GV to scale their platform for analyzing real-time data from hardware systems. The company is developing a platform that provides a single

SpaceX unveiled Starlink Mini, a more portable version of its satellite internet product that is small enough to fit inside a backpack.  Early Starlink customers were invited to purchase the Starlink Mini kit for $599, according to an invitation sent to customers and viewed by technewss. Tha

The space industry is all abuzz about how SpaceX's Starship, Blue Origin's New Glenn, and other heavy-lift rockets will change just about everything. One likely consequence is that spacecraft will get bigger — much bigger — as engineers work outside the constraints of low mass requireme