Articles by Jeff Foust
WASHINGTON Amid a constrained launch market, satellite operators are increasingly emphasizing to investors and customers that they have lined up launch capacity, even if it is uncertain when those veοΏ½...
WASHINGTON United Launch Alliances corporate parents have guaranteed a loan to the company as it addresses financial challenges caused by the grounding of its Vulcan Centaur rocket.
In a Securities οΏ½...
WASHINGTON SpaceX aborted the launch of its latest Starship test flight July 16 when some of the vehicles engines failed to ignite.
Starship was scheduled to lift off on the Flight 13 mission from tοΏ½...
WASHINGTON SpaceX has set a date for the long-delayed first launch of its next-generation Starship vehicle, which is critical to the companys ambitions as well as NASAs lunar plans.
SpaceX announcedοΏ½...
WASHINGTON NASA is planning to increase the total value of a contract for robotic lunar lander missions to support a proposed surge in flights for the agencys moon base plans.
In an April 27 procureοΏ½...
WASHINGTON Northrop Grumman said April 21 it took a $71 million charge in its fiscal first quarter linked to an anomaly with a solid rocket booster that has grounded the Vulcan Centaur rocket.
In a οΏ½...
WASHINGTON A little more than a year after dismissing the moon as a distraction, Elon Musk says SpaceX will focus on lunar settlement before sending humans to Mars.
In a social media post Feb. 8, MuοΏ½...
ORLANDO, Fla. Blue Origin announced Jan. 30 that it will halt flights of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for at least two years as it shifts its focus to human lunar exploration.
In a statement, οΏ½...
WASHINGTON Max Space, a startup developing expandable module technologies, plans to build a commercial space station that could launch on a single Falcon 9 rocket.
The company unveiled plans Dec. 17οΏ½...
AMSTERDAM Northrop Grumman is investing $50 million into Firefly Aerospace to further development of a medium-lift launch vehicle with a new name.
The companies announced May 29 that Northrop would οΏ½...
