Author: Rachel Jewett

NASA has established a new position of senior climate advisor to work with the Biden administration on climate science objectives. The agency said in a Wednesday announcement that the senior...

SpaceX’s latest test of its Starship rocket came to an explosive ending on Tuesday. The 10 km high-altitude test of Starship Serial Number 9 (SN9) was livestreamed from Boca Chica,...

Umbra, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery startup, has raised $32 million in equity financing, the company announced Jan. 30. The financing was led by the family office venture fund of...

Launch company Astra announced plans to go public on Tuesday through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Under the deal, a merger with Holicity Inc. would make...

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded L3Harris Technologies a $121 million contract to build space flight hardware to demonstrate the company’s solution for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space...

Orbitare has reached a deal with Spire Global to deploy its personal satellite communication network, Spaceloop, on Spire’s nanosatellite constellation. Orbitare will send two in-orbit demonstrations of Spaceloop to orbit...

L3Haris Space and Airborne Systems and Communications System segments drove revenue increase for the company in 2020, along with Integrated Mission Systems, while Aviation Systems experienced a decline due to...

The Space Systems segment of Northrop Grumman Corporation led the company in sales increases for both the Fourth Quarter (Q4) of 2020, and for the full year. In Q4, Space...

The SiriusXM satellite built by Maxar Technologies that launched in January is under evaluation after certain payload units have failed, the company reported in a Wednesday filing to the Securities...

HawkEye 360 is at an inflection point in its work to bring commercial Radio Frequency (RF) geolocation data to market, as its second-generation cluster is now in-orbit and being prepared...