The Edge
Amazon changes rockets for launch of prototype Kuiper internet satellites, pushing mission to 2023
From left: Artist renderings of the launches of an RS1 rocket and a Vulcan rocket. ABL Space; United Launch Alliance Amazon is swapping rides for the first prototype satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network, the company announced Wednesday, a move that delays launching the pair of spacecraft to early next year. The tech giant […]
Read More
Space tourism pioneer Dennis Tito books private moon trip on SpaceX’s Starship
Dennis Tito, most widely known as being the first space tourist back in mid-2001. Wikipedia Entrepreneur Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko purchased seats on a private trip with SpaceX’s Starship rocket, the third such spaceflight Elon Musk’s venture has announced to date. Tito – 82, and famous for becoming the first private space tourist […]
Read More
NASA aims for mid-November launch of delayed Artemis moon mission
NASA’s next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with its Orion crew capsule perched on top, as it stands on launch pad 39B in preparation for the unmanned Artemis 1 mission at Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 27, 2022. Joe Skipper | Reuters NASA said Wednesday that it is planning to launch its Artemis […]
Read More
Pentagon awards $200 million spacecraft contract to private venture York
The S-CLASS platform, designed for missions for a wide variety of government and commercial customers. York Space Systems Spacecraft manufacturer York Space Systems won a Pentagon contact worth up to $200 million, announced Thursday, to build experimental satellites for the military’s Space Development Agency (SDA). Known as the T1DES system, York will build and operate […]
Read More
SpaceX launches Crew-5 mission for NASA, carrying astronauts to space station
The Crew-5 mission launches on Oct. 5, 2022. NASA TV SpaceX launched four people to the International Space Station from Florida on Wednesday, as Elon Musk’s company keeps up a steady pace of crewed missions. Known as Crew-5, the mission for NASA will bring the group up to the ISS for a six-month stay in […]
Read More
Spacecraft builder York sells stake to private equity firm AEI at over $1 billion valuation
One of the company’s spacecraft in orbit. York Space Spacecraft manufacturer York Space Systems is selling a majority stake in the company to private equity firm AE Industrial Partners at an enterprise valuation of $1.125 billion, CNBC has learned. The deal, announced on Tuesday, makes York the latest space unicorn — a company valued at […]
Read More
Firefly’s successful rocket launch over the weekend helps fill a big gap in the market, CEO says
The view from the upper stage of the Alpha rocket after reaching orbit on Oct. 1, 2022. Firefly Aerospace Private venture Firefly Aerospace reached orbit with its Alpha rocket for the first time on Saturday, a milestone in the company’s development that sees it join an increasingly competitive U.S. launch market. Firefly is the fifth […]
Read More
NASA is working with SpaceX to explore a private mission to extend the life of the Hubble telescope
This 1990 photograph shows the Hubble Space Telescope being deployed from the space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31. Source: NASA SpaceX and billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman are teaming up with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study whether a private mission could extend the life of the famed Hubble telescope. NASA signed an agreement […]
Read More
Cathie Wood’s Ark is buying stock in space SPAC Rocket Lab
A look at the company’s production floor shows a series of Electron boosters, with the typical black carbon fiber rockets in the foreground and a metallic-looking reusable booster in the center. Rocket Lab Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest is dipping back into a space SPAC, with two of the firm’s funds buying up stock in Rocket […]
Read More
Artemis moon mission probable delayed to November as NASA moves rocket out of hurricane’s route
NASA’s huge Artemis 1 moon rocket is rolled again to the Vehicle Assembly Setting up off its lauchpad, after suspending the a great deal-anticipated mission a third time owing to the arrival of Hurricane Ian and other specialized challenges, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. September 27, 2022. Michael Weekes Jr | Reuters NASA’s extensive-awaited return […]
Read More