“Physics doesn’t care how much capital you’ve got. Poor engineering decisions don’t care how much capital you’ve got,” said Beck. “For a rocket company to come together to produce a product…and business that works is really, really hard.”
SpaceX’s rideshare missions are always big days for the space industry. Here’s our list highlighting what was on board.
The facility—a new product development center—will work on payload development and new spacecraft designs, streamlining hardware and software development and production as the firm looks to expand its classified operations.
The Trump administration must engage China in orbit, opening a line for communication in case of emergencies such as deconflicting potential collisions in orbit, according to a report released Tuesday by the Council on Foreign Relations.
The program will allow free, unrestricted use of images captured by Wyvern’s three Dragonette hyperspectral satellites under the flexible public release creative commons license as long as credit is attributed to Wyvern.
Spaceium, an in-orbit refueling service, raised a $6.3M seed round led by Initialized Capital with participation from 15 additional VC firms and angel investors. The Y-Combinator-backed startup plans to use the funding to demonstrate its refueling technology in orbit and expand its team. “Fuel for spacecraft is a massive bottleneck in the industry,” Spaceium CEO […]
SpaceX launched Transporter-12 on Tuesday afternoon, sending 131 payloads with dozens of microsatellites and nanosats into sun-synchronous orbit.
Not surprisingly, regulatory reform is on everyone’s wishlist.
Here are some of the space agency’s biggest milestones and most impactful decisions this year
The aim is for the Grottaglie Spaceport to serve as a Mediterranean homebase for Virgin’s suborbital commercial and scientific crewed spaceflight, which has been on pause while the company works on its next-generation space tourism vehicle.
Tranche 1 of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, which was expected to launch in September, is now on hold until March or April.
The partnership, which will rely on a customized version of Microsoft’s Azure Open AI platform, supports NASA’s broader effort to democratize data access.
