Space Economy

New space transportation company Impulse Space announced a partnership with Relativity Space on Tuesday to deliver the first commercial payload to Mars. Impulse Space is developing the Mars Cruise Vehicle...

Nanoracks confirmed Monday that it will conduct a second Bishop Airlock mission with Japanese space robotics startup Gitai. A follow-up to the companies’ successful Bishop Airlock demonstration in 2021, the...

Denver-based in-space transportation company Atomos Space entered into a technology partnership with Addvalue Innovation, a communication terminals provider, to develop orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that relocate Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites...

Space logistics company D-Orbit will deploy two satellites for Kepler Communications as part of an agreement announced Thursday.  The contract covers the launch of two 6U telecommunications satellites on D-Orbit’s...

Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission for NASA early Tuesday morning, sending the spacecraft on a journey to a unique lunar orbit.  CAPSTONE — Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and...

Space-as-a-Service company Sidus Space has been tapped to join the Collins Aerospace team that was awarded NASA‘s Exploration Extravehicular Activity (xEVAS) services contract at the beginning of June. Sidus Space...

National space camps are coming to the United Kingdom. Athena, the UK’s national team in space, formed by CGI, Inmarsat, Lockheed Martin UK and Serco, announced June 14, that it...

Ball Aerospace awarded Rocket Lab a subcontract to manufacture the solar array panel for NASA’S GLIDE heliophysics mission. Ball Aerospace is building the spacecraft for NASA based on its Ball...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Synspective is partnering with Addvalue to use its inter-satellite data relay system (IDRS) to deliver its SAR imagery more quickly to customers.  Addvalue’s data relay...

Astroscale’s U.K. subsidiary received 14.8 million euros ($16 million) in funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) for its ELSA-M servicer mission, which is developed in partnership with OneWeb, the...