The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on February 6, 2018 Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP Imagine you are flying from London to New York. After safely touching down at JFK, you disembark to head for passport control and collect your bags. As […] Click here to view original […]

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says that the company’s Starlink internet constellation is years ahead of competition from OneWeb and Amazon. A step further, the executive also voiced several unprecedently harsh critiques of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Boeing and Lockheed Martin (ULA). The Air Force is testing SpaceX’s Starlink […] Click here to view original […]

Getty Images Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic We have lift-off. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Holdings on Monday became the first space-tourism business to go public as its stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company listed its shares via a merger with Social Capital […] Click here to view original […]

The entrepreneur has been working on his space tourism project for over 10 years Virgin Galactic, the space venture backed by Sir Richard Branson, is ready to launch – not into space but on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Shares in Virgin Galactic are set to start trading […] Click here to view original […]

An artist’s conception shows Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is on the top of the funding list for a newly announced round of “Tipping Point” funding from NASA for technologies that could be applied […] Click here to view original […]

Work on Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch complex – LC-36 – is well underway. Recent aerial imagery of Cape Canaveral from NOAA shows how far Blue has come on the launch complex. Meanwhile, the company is also working on an engine factory in Alabama, and a first stage refurbishment […] Click here to view original […]

Satellite Launch Vehicle Market Overview The Global Satellite Launch Vehicle Market report encloses vital statistical data of sales and revenue based on the various segment such as type, regions, applications, technology, and elite players in the global Satellite Launch Vehicle industry. The report aims at historical (2014-2019) occurrences, talks […] Click here to view original […]

Steve Squyres Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has appointed Steve Squyres , a professor of physical sciences at Cornell University, to serve as chief scientist of the aerospace company, GeekWire reported Wednesday . Squyres has served as principal investigator for NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover project and worked on the Magellan […] Click here to view original […]

Executives from SpaceX, Arianespace, United Launch Alliance, International Launch Services, Blue Origin, China Great Wall Industry Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries participate on a Sept. 10 panel discussion at World Satellite Business Week in Paris. Credit. SpaceNews /Brian Berger PARIS — With the size and growth of commercial markets […] Click here to view original […]