As Blue Origin continues to recover from a New Glenn pad explosion in May, the company is seeking permission to significantly increase the vehicle’s launch rate.

Varda Space Industries, a company that operates reentry spacecraft for pharmaceutical and hypersonics research applications, has raised $251 million as it prepares to launch three missions in the next month.

Momentus has successfully tested a low-cost sensor suite intended to enable future satellite servicing missions.

Space mining company AstroForge plans to fly a spacecraft next year that will test its ability to operate fully autonomously using artificial intelligence.

NASA is supporting Boeing as it completes revisions to the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, ensuring it is available for crewed missions after the expected retirement of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.

Three countries signed the Artemis Accords in as many days last week, part of a surge of signatories ahead of a meeting at the upcoming International Astronautical Congress.

SpaceX launched its Starship vehicle Sept. 28 on its first attempt to reach orbit and deploy operational satellites.

Even as Rocket Lab protests a NASA Mars contract, the company is downplaying the role the agency plays in its overall business.

A mission that attempted to raise the orbit of a NASA astrophysics spacecraft has officially ended, with lessons both NASA and the company involved plan to apply to future efforts.

Rocket Lab continued a rapid pace of Electron launches with another mission for Japanese radar-imaging company Synspective on Sept. 25.

The European Union commissioner responsible for space is taking a more active role in launch as he presses European companies to increase launch activity.

NASA has selected a far-infrared space telescope as the first in a new line of billion-dollar astrophysics missions as it works to balance that effort with smaller spacecraft.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency “dodged a bullet” with the unexpected delay in a Chinese lunar mission as the countries race to land humans on the moon.

Starfish Space will launch its first Otter satellite-servicing spacecraft next month to test inspection and docking technologies.

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to

The European Space Agency and European Commission awarded contracts to two teams of companies to study architectures for an Earth imaging constellation for security applications.

The satellite industry is coming to grips with SpaceX’s plans to end commercial Falcon 9 launches in the next few years, creating a significant, if temporary, gap in space access.

HEO, an Australian company that uses satellites to image other space objects, has raised $25 million to extend its capabilities into geostationary orbit.

Albania is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, part of a surge of new signatories ahead of a key meeting next month.

NASA has proceeded with plans to purchase three additional SpaceX Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station, although the spacecraft’s long-term future remains uncertain.

Rocket Lab launched a radar-imaging satellite for Japanese company Synspective on Sept. 18 on the fifth flight of its Electron rocket in a month and a half.

A high-level conference organized by the French government on space is intended not just to seek international consensus on key issues but also to bolster Europe’s space efforts.

The Exploration Company has raised $450 million to help the European company complete work on a cargo spacecraft and lay the groundwork for a future large launch vehicle.

Stoke Space Technologies, a company nearing the first flight of a fully reusable launch vehicle, has raised $1 billion to help accelerate work on a larger rocket.

Cowboy Space will use a 291,035-square-foot facility in Kent to produce its data center spacecraft, the Newmark real estate firm says.

Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket reached orbit Sept. 5 on the rocket’s second flight, the first successful orbital launch from Western Europe.

Katalyst Space is wrapping up operations of a spacecraft intended to reboost a NASA space telescope but which instead became a technology demonstration for satellite servicing.

The first in a new class of small NASA astrophysics spacecraft has started operations, providing both science data and lessons for future missions.

The Indian space agency ISRO successfully launched an imaging satellite in its first launch since a failure in January.

HyImpulse, a German launch vehicle developer, announced Sept. 2 it raised more than 50 million euros ($58 million) to accelerate work on small launch vehicles using hybrid propulsion.

NASA is revising requirements and providing additional resources to Axiom Space to ensure a lunar spacesuit the company is developing is ready in time for Artemis 4.

NASA is consolidating many of its launch programs into a single office that is considering block buys of launches.

NASA awarded a $700 million contract to Blue Origin on Sept. 1 to build a Mars communications orbiter intended for launch in just over two years.

A House subcommittee advanced a bill intended to streamline licensing of satellite system, one that differs from a companion bill in the Senate.

Rocket Lab launched a satellite for Japanese radar-imaging company Synspective, one of two such companies that account for a significant part of Rocket Lab’s launch activity.

PLD Space has raised an additional $125 million, bringing the total the Spanish launch company has raised to more than $550 million as it approaches its first orbital launch.

Turkey, a country with a growing space program that includes plans for a lunar mission, is the latest nation to sign the Artemis Accords.

NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract Tuesday to develop the agency’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-generation communications system that will enable

OHB won a contract worth more than a billion dollars Aug. 31 to build the satellites for the medium Earth orbit, or MEO, shell of a European constellation.

A startup has raised $10 million from investors that include Lockheed Martin and Sumitomo to advance technology for space cameras that promises to resolve details not possible with conventional systems.

A Falcon Heavy launched NASA’s newest flagship telescope Aug. 30 on a mission to study the nature of the universe and discover thousands of exoplanets.