Orbit Fab, one of the companies competing in this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco this week, has closed a seed round of $3 million. The funding comes from Type 1 Ventures, ...
Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit, a sister company to the space tourism-focused Virgin Galactic, has announced today it intends to launch an ambitious mission to Mars as soon as three years from now – ...
Space and Missile Systems Center leadership said they wanted a hybrid architecture for Next Gen OPIR, with satellites in GEO and LEO. (United Launch Alliance) The Pentagon’s next generation missile ...
The U.K. has moved a step closer to launching rockets to orbit in the near-future, after the U.K. Space Agency (UKSA) announced $9.5 million (£7.35 million) in funding for Richard Branson’s Virgin ...
The MEV-1, which will be launched in the coming weeks, will be the first vehicle to provide commercial servicing for satellites in-orbit, says Northrop Grumman subsidiary SpaceLogistics. Northrop ...
India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon. After four weeks in space, the craft completed its Lunar ...
The Air Force’s X-37B successfully landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility earlier today. And here are a couple of interesting shots. On Oct. 27, 2019 at 3:51 AM, the X-37B ...
A rocket that's the last of its kind delivered the newest, most powerful GPS satellite to orbit for the Air Force on Thursday. United Launch Alliance's Delta IV medium-class rocket blasted into a hazy ...
Welcome to Edition 2.08 of the Rocket Report! This week’s report comes from Brownsville, Texas, where we came to see if SpaceX’s Starhopper can actually hop into the sky 20 meters. (Spoiler alert, it ...
Editor’s Note: Greg Wyler is founder and chairman of OneWeb. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. For those of us who grew up watching Star Trek, exploring space has been about ...
All spacecraft come with an expiration date: They can only travel as far as the fuel onboard allows. This is one of the biggest obstacles we face in attempting to explore deep space. But an experiment ...
Virgin Orbit is on the brink of bankruptcy, with its valuation tumbling from nearly $4 billion in 2021 to less than $100 million today. While it touted a flexible approach to launching small ...