... 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...
...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...
... 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...
...) provided £9 million of funding for hiSky to develop cutting-edge space telecoms technology at the Harwell Space Cluster, which is growing fast and already home to more than 90 space companies. hiSky aims to be the world’s first low-cost satellite...
SpaceX on Sunday launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying a record number of satellites on board, the private space company said. The rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:00 am (1500 GMT), 24 hours after its initial ...
... heavy communications spacecraft in geostationary orbit). As a result, vertical integration occurs in these SSC developing companies. Previously, space companies did almost everything themselves (including making bolts and microcircuits) and left the...