New Shepard suffers in-flight abort on uncrewed suborbital flight
A problem with Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle caused an in-flight flight a minute after liftoff Sept. 12, causing a capsule filled with payloads but not people to fire its launch abort motor and parachute to a safe landing.
Startups to test advanced computing technology on lunar missions
Like missions in low-Earth and geostationary orbit, deep space missions will require extensive computing capability.
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Major operator consolidation is a long time coming
Mergers between even small operators have been few and far between in an industry where nationalistic protectionism and unique regulations often inhibit deal-making.
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Riding the consolidation wave
A surge of mergers between major satellite operators is rippling through the broader commercial space industry, promising more change in what are already transformational times for the market.
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Foust Forward | Manufacturing a low Earth orbit economy
ZBLAN fiber is just the latest in a long line of products that had been touted as demonstrating the potential of space manufacturing, taking advantage of microgravity and vacuum conditions to create items that cannot be made as well, or at all, on Earth.
Bezos rocket fails during liftoff, only experiments aboard
Jeff Bezos' rocket company suffered its first launch failure Monday.
Uncrewed Blue Origin rocket crashes, capsule recovered
An uncrewed Blue Origin rocket carrying research payloads crashed shortly after liftoff on Monday, but the capsule carrying experiments escaped and floated safely back to Earth, Jeff Bezos' space company said.
The company tweeted a short video clip showing the moment when the capsule fired emergency thrusters to separate from its booster rocket, around a minute after launching from Blue Orig Blue Origin rocket suffers booster failure, prompting emergency abort system
Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket suffered a booster failure after lifting off Monday morning, causing an emergency abort system to separate the capsule from the booster.
The unmanned mission was carrying 36 payloads from academia, research institutions, and students across the globe and was expected to reach the edge of space and return in a series of suborbital flights.
It was t SpaceX says likely won't need 42,000 satellites for Starlink internet
SpaceX, which has requested authorisation to deploy up to 42,000 satellites to provide its Starlink satellite internet service, probably won't need to launch that many into orbit, its chief operations officer said Monday.
Starlink - the satellite internet service of tech billionaire Elon Musk - offers high-speed broadband service to customers in areas that are poorly or not served by fixed Eutelsat and OneWeb consider second-generation LEO plans
OneWeb is considering plans for a second-generation constellation jointly with Eutelsat ahead of closing their proposed merger, executives for the satellite operators said Sept. 12.
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