When commercial suborbital spaceflight companies lose the liability protection they currently enjoy, insurance coverage may initially be quite expensive. That was the conclusion of a ...
TAMPA, Fla. — The European Space Agency has awarded a group led by Kepler Communications, a Canadian small satellite operator, a 36 million euro ($39 million) contract to develop a low Earth orbit ...
MILAN – National and international debris mitigation standards and policies are evolving rapidly to keep pace with increasingly complex space operations. With several large constellations poised ...
Antarctica Capital has sold geospatial analytics provider Descartes Labs to EarthDaily Analytics, a company the private equity firm also owns, which has delayed its optical imagery constellation ...
Inversion, a startup developing systems to return cargo from space to Earth, has received a license for its first mission launching in November.
Venturi Astrolab, a company developing large lunar rovers for roles that include transporting astronauts on Artemis missions, will first fly a smaller rover primarily as a tech demo mission.
Many institutional investors and private equity firms aren’t looking to invest in the space sector. To attract funding, it may help to stop talking about space and explain businesses in ...
The question we’re most often asked by government and industry executives in our overseas travels is “How do we increase our participation in space activities?” With over 100 countries already ...
In this episode of Commercial Space Transformers Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow speaks with Kirk Konert, a Managing Partner and board member at AE Industrial Partners (AEI).
United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur lifts off Oct. 4 on the Cert-2 test flight. Credit: ULA MILAN — The loss of a solid rocket booster nozzle on the second flight of the Vulcan Centaur had very ...
China’s inland Xichang launch center is set to build a commercial spaceport, aiming to enhance the country’s access to space. Liangshan Prefecture, in which Xichang Satellite Launch Center ...
A long-awaited mission to study if an icy moon of Jupiter could harbor life is on its way after a launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket Oct. 14.