WASHINGTON — Defense technology firm Anduril Industries selected Apex, a Los Angeles-based satellite manufacturing startup, to provide small satellite buses for its planned military space missions, ...
Gogo is acquiring inflight connectivity rival Satcom Direct to counter rising competition from SpaceX’s Starlink in the market for providing Wi-Fi to business jets.
A recent SpaceNews report on the “growing pains” of the smallsat industry was a wakeup call to some, due to the critical importance of a healthy, vibrant space industrial base. A resilient ...
The Office of Space Commerce has started beta tests of its new space traffic coordination system, providing conjunction notices to a handful of operators.
We’re in a race for space agility, and America is falling behind. Irresponsible weapons tests, such as Russia’s Nov 2021 destructive test of a direct ascent anti-satellite missile test, provided a ...
China launched the retrievable and reusable Shijian-19 satellite Friday to carry out a range of experiments in low Earth orbit.  A Long March 2D rocket lifted off at 8:30 a.m. Eastern ...
NASA is playing down concerns raised in a recent report about a long-running air leak in the Russian segment of the International Space Station, saying they have recently reduced the rate of the ...