Space robotics specialist GITAI has raised an extra $15.5 million in venture capital to help expand into the nascent in-orbit servicing market.

The upcoming presidential transition will be unlike any other in recent history at NASA, thanks in large part to the potentially disruptive influence of Elon Musk, warned veterans of past ...

Boeing has shipped the first pair of O3b mPower satellites with fixes addressing power issues that have hobbled the initial six in SES’s next-generation medium Earth orbit broadband network.

Imagine a future where global travel takes mere hours. Where a flight from New York to Tokyo is faster than watching a movie. This is the promise of hypersonics: speeds over 3,800 miles per hour (Mach ...

Artist rendition of ESA’s Destructive Reentry Assessment Container Object (DRACO), a spacecraft loaded with sensors that will break up in orbit in order to gather data on uncontrolled reentry. Credit: ...

The contract is to advance digital engineering processes for the company’s next-generation Archimedes rocket engine ...

The Space Development Agency awarded Sierra Space a $740 million contract earlier this year to design and deliver 18 missile warning and tracking satellites ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off about 5% of its staff this week because of budget cuts, the second such major layoff at the center in less than a year.

Sony has partnered with California’s Astro Digital to test laser communications from two small satellites, using optical disc technology the Japanese conglomerate pioneered for CD players.

A decade ago, the commercial space industry in the United States celebrated a hard-fought victory in efforts to reform export controls. After years of effort, the State Department enacted changes ...

White House at dusk. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. Washington is gearing up for significant changes in space and ...

Japan’s SKY Perfect JSAT ordered the JSAT-31 software-defined satellite from Thales Alenia Space to respond to changes in geostationary broadband demand across Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast ...