SpaceX and the commercial space industry want the FCC to abolish the third-party council that coordinates the radio spectrum used by rocket launches and aircraft flight testing, replacing it with an unspecified system of self-coordination. Boeing, Lock…
The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.
With no central authority regulating lunar payloads, private ventures are turning the moon’s surface into a commercial wild west.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russia’s answer to Starlink, the Financial Times reported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in …
Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies’ satellites, versus SpaceX’s closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
Today, the company announced that PLD Space had entered into an agreement with CNES, the French space agency, and that both parties were considering building a second launch pad for PLD’s rockets at the spaceport in French Guiana. They will examine whe…
As Charter explains on its website, a common experience for space companies is that regular insurers “heard a bunch of scary science words and freaked out.”
NASA will pay Boeing $359m to help get its Starliner spacecraft flying again. It will also buy two more Starliner flights to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing announced the plan at a news conference on Monday, and NASA set it out in a st…
Skygazers can spot some spectacular sights, including one last good view of the Milky Way.