03 March 2025
Blue Ghost lander operations underway on lunar surface
... the successful landing on the Moon of Firefly Aerospace's private space mission Blue Ghost 1 yesterday (2 March 2025). The Texas-based company became only the second commercial space company to land on the Moon after its robotic craft touched...
May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
... wherever they are, so a flexible means is needed for managing communication capacity demand around the world. Many space companies are looking to address the need for a generational upgrade in satellite services. LowEarth orbiting (LEO) satellites...
25 March 2016
Airbus Spaceplane May Be the Future of Space Tourism
... 2006, when Astrium, then a subsidiary of EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company) began developing the vehicle. Development slowed down in 2011, but the company has continued to work on the project in spite of the global economic crisis...
06 March 2017
Virgin Galactic announces its new space venture - Virgin Orbit
... Galactic has announced the creation of a new commercial space company, Virgin Orbit, a satellite launching service that will complement the company’s growing suite of space ventures. Previously conducted as a division of Virgin Galactic, Virgin...
03 May 2021
NASA tells SpaceX to halt HLS development after protest by rivals
...awarded almost $1 billion in contracts to three private US space companies to design and develop a human landing system (HLS...released a Request for Information (RFI) asking US companies to indicate their interest in providing Artemis astronaut transit...
31 May 2019
Melting moon dust with lasers to use in lunar habitats
... from the IRAS. MOONRISE will hitch a ride on the first Moon mission of the Berlin-based new-space company PTScientists, a privately funded organisation who have just signed a cooperation agreement with the ArianeGroup to work together...
