Stories on space business, including company updates, funding announcements, and contract awards.
Vast announced its intention to compete for NASA contracts to organize private astronaut missions to the ISS—a role that has been filled exclusively by Axiom Space since the flights commenced in 2022.
Varda’s in-space manufacturing capsule is cleared for reentry after months of regulatory back and forth.
The US is at risk of losing leadership in LEO to China if commercial space stations do not come to fruition before the ISS plunges into the sea, two industry officials told lawmakers on Wednesday.
BlueHalo, a young defense prime making headway in the space domain, announced yesterday that it has acquired Eqlipse, a cyber, intelligence, and advanced R&D firm working on the edge of defense applications.
LeoLabs clinched $29M in funding to fulfill its dreams of truly global coverage and deep, AI-powered analytics to support its LEO-monitoring space radar network.
Palantir, the AI data and analytics unicorn, is getting more deeply involved in the space domain.
Spain-based FOSSA Systems is expanding internationally for the first time with the opening of a new subsidiary in Portugal, the company announced Tuesday.
Interlune, an in-space resource mining startup operating in stealth, has secured $15.6M of funding
A one-time titan of the space industry finds itself on the sidelines, plagued by ballooning costs and slow timelines in its space division at a time when price and speed are king.
A Japanese firm has a new concept for getting junk out of the way in space: lasers.
Quindar is moving toward its satellite constellation automation goals with the help of a $6M seed extension round and a strategic integration partnership with KSAT.
The TraCCS program not just to give DOD a rest from tracking the ever-increasing amount of stuff in orbit and focus on military objectives; it’s also that private SSA is more accurate than what the government is providing.
