Loft Orbital has raised $170 million to expand manufacturing facilities and streamline operations with more artificial intelligence.

The company’s W-2 capsule launched aboard SpaceX's Transporter-12 rideshare mission

Rosotics seeks to build a propellant depot at Earth-moon Lagrange Point 5.

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Cloud-based tool to help military satellite operators determine the cause of on-orbit anomalies.

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Fly over Mercury with BepiColombo for the final time during the mission’s epic expedition around the Sun. The ESA/JAXA spacecraft captured these images of the Solar System's smallest planet on 7 and 8 January 2025, before and during its sixth encounter with Mercury. This was its final planetary flyby until it enters orbit around the planet in late 2026.  

The video begins with BepiColombo's approach to Mercury, showing images taken by onboard monitoring cameras 1 and 2 (M-CAM 1 and M-CAM 2) between 16:59 CET on 7 January and 01:45 CET on 8 January. During this time, the

In this episode of Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow speaks with Martijn Blanken, CEO, Neo Space Group (NSG).

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2025
The seventh flight test of SpaceX's Starship is scheduled to launch on Wednesday, January 15. This flight test will showcase a new iteration of Starship with substantial upgrades, marking its first payload deployment test, multiple reentry experiments, and both the launch and return of the Super Heavy booster. Among the upgrades to Starship's upper stage are redesigned forward flaps reloca