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BlackSky wins multiple, multi-year contracts with a combined value of eight figures to accelerate the development of India’s commercial Earth observation capabilities
HERNDON, Va. (February 13, 2024) — BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) won multi-year contracts that include Assured access to subscription-based low-latency, high-cadence imagery and AI-enabled ana...

Sierra Space Completes Test Campaign with Next-Generation Vortex 35,000 lbf Fuel-Rich LOX LH2 Engine
LOUISVILLE, Colorado – February 12, 2025 –Sierra Space, Inc., a leading commercial aerospace and defense technology company building a platform in space to benefit life on Earth® , today announced the...

Rocket Lab Launches Next Batch of Satellites for Kinéis Constellation
Mahia, New Zealand. February 9, 2025. – Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today successfully launched its 59th ...

Vast Passes Critical Haven-1 Test Milestone
Vast is making rapid progress in designing and engineering Haven-1, establishing ourselves as a space station company—a title we believe is only earned by successfully building a station and safely ho...

Rocket Lab Signs Multi-Launch Contract with iQPS for Four Electron Missions
Long Beach, Calif. February 3rd, 2025 – Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has signed a multi...

Virgin Galactic Partners with Redwire to Advance Research Capabilities for New Delta Spaceships
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or the “Company”) today announced a partnership with Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) to manufacture the research payload lockers that wil...

Planet Signs $230 Million Commercial Agreement for Pelican Satellites
SAN FRANCISCO--Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced the signing of a multi-year $230 million agreement to expand its partnership with ...

Spaceium Closes $6.3M Seed Round to Build Refueling Stations in Space
We’re thrilled to share that at Spaceium, we have successfully closed an oversubscribed seed round of $6.3 million, led by Initialized Capital. After participating in Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch,...

New Shepard’s 29th Mission Will Fly 30 Payloads, Mimic the Moon’s Gravity
Blue Origin’s next New Shepard flight, NS-29, will simulate the Moon’s gravity and fly 30 payloads, all but one of which is focused on testing lunar-related technologies. The launch window opens on Tu...

Rocket Lab to Launch Global Wildfire Detection and Monitoring Mission for OroraTech
Long Beach, California. 22 January, 2025. – Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has signed a c...

Sierra Space's Resilient GPS Satellite Program Reaches Major Milestone
LOUISVILLE, Colorado – January 16, 2025 – Sierra Space, Inc., a leading commercial aerospace and defense technology company building a platform in space to benefit life on Earth® and protect economic ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 Successfully Launches and Begins 45-Day Transit to the Moon (UPDATE)
Firefly Aerospace, the leader in end-to-end responsive space services, today announced Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, successfully acquired signal, and complet...

RFA receives launch licence from the UK
Augsburg, Germany – January 16th, 2025. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), a European leader in developing flexible and low-cost launch services, proudly announces that it has officially received its spac...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Reaches Orbit
New Glenn safely reached its intended orbit during today's NG-1 mission, accomplishing our primary objective. New Glenn’s seven BE-4 engines ignited on January 16, 2025, at 2:03 a.m. EST (0703 UTC) fr...

ICEYE launches four new satellites, supporting additional customer missions
Helsinki, Finland - January 15, 2025 - ICEYE, the global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite operations for high-fidelity Earth Observation, persistent monitoring, and natural catastro...

Varda's Second Mission, W-2, Launches with Payloads from Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA
Varda Space Industries, Inc. today announced the successful launch of its second orbital processing and reentry capsule, W-2, which lifted off aboard the Transporter-12 rideshare mission with SpaceX f...

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John Shoffner
John Shoffner is an American racing driver, investor, and pilot. In May 2021, he paid for a seat on Axiom Mission 2, the second entirely-private crew mission to the International Space Station. Shoffn...

Eytan Stibbe
Eytan Stibbe is a former Israeli fighter pilot, businessman and commercial astronaut. After he started his fighter pilot training course in 1976, Stibbe flew thousands of hours in Skyhawk, Phantom and...

Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American software architect who started and led Microsoft's applications group, where he built the first versions of Microsoft Office. He co-founded and led Intentional ...