Author: Rachel Jewett

The Japanese government awarded Astroscale Japan an award worth up to $80 million for a debris inspection mission. The award announced Monday is a small business innovation research (SBIR) award...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) set an Oct. 6 launch date for Amazon’s Project Kuiper prototype satellites. The encapsulated payload arrived at ULA’s integration facility at Cape Canaveral on Thursday.  The...

NASA extended its blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Planet, placing multiple orders totaling $18.5 million through 2024, Planet announced Friday.  The BPA is part of NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition...

Astroscale is ready to launch its ADRAS-J mission, which will conduct a close approach and orbit around a piece of space debris. The spacecraft is ready, but a launch window...

Omnispace, working with Viasat and Lacuna Space, demonstrated an open standards-based IoT service which the company says could lead to a range of IoT and direct-to-device (D2D) satellite services. The...

Sidus Space announced two leadership appointments this week, elevating Leonardo Riera to chair of its board of directors, and Jared Novick to the role of COO. Both were already involved...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is looking for more vendors for commercial radio occultation data, according to a recent request for information. NOAA’s Commercial Data Program (CDP) is conducting...

BlueHalo recently demonstrated its multi-band Badger satellite terminal for U.S. Space Force officials. BlueHalo successfully demonstrated target tracking and processing of signals using the multi-band software defined antenna tiles on...

Commercial space station company Sierra Space announced a $290 million Series B funding round on Tuesday, valuing the company at $5.3 billion. The round takes Sierra Space’s total capital raised...

Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith is stepping down from his position at the end of this year, and Amazon’s Kuiper lead Dave Limp will become CEO of the company. A...