Space

Axiom Space plans to install a data center on Hab One to be linked to the ISS and use laser communications equipment to connect it to Earth-orbiting satellites.

As hardware prices come down, Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to connect “tens of millions of customers.”

The PE owners of legacy space-based services provider Maxar have divested their RF business that Maxar had acquired just 11 months earlier.

The UK Space Agency says it has taken on board criticism over the slow pace of licensing and the high cost of insurance associated with space launches.

The SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, has been awarded the first-ever UK Civil Aviation Authority license for a vertical-launch site.

The service is adding a new approach to launch contracting, as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture takes shape.

Rocket Lab’s 42nd launch of a two-stage Electron booster lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:05 p.m. EST Dec. 14.

NASA has offered a preview of Sierra Space’s reusable Dream Chaser resupply demonstration mission to the International Space Station planned for 2024.

The U.S. Space Force has finished a draft concept of operations for ground-moving target indication missions from space.

The uncrewed vehicle, which Xinhua described as a test platform, was launched by the two-stage Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

The U.S. military sees orbital transfer vehicles keeping adversaries guessing.

Amazon’s two Project Kuiper prototype satellites have transmitted 100 gigabits per second of data using laser communications equipment.

The U.S. Space Force’s long-awaited strategy for buying commercial capabilities will likely be released early next year.

Stennis Space Center has installed four large thrust diffusers in preparation for Green Run testing of the Block IB Exploration Upper Stage Artemis upgrade.

Axiom Space is looking at Jan. 9 for the launch of its third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

Dawn Aerospace has run a full-duration, bipropellant ground test of its Mk-II Aurora spaceplane’s rocket engine.

UK Space Command is looking to be on contract next year for a cluster of synthetic aperture radar satellites.

The Space Rapid Capabilities Office is tasked with meeting critical needs in space.

The U.S. Space Force is preparing for a dramatic increase in its acquisition of military satellite communications and position, navigation and timing systems.

Perseverance is preparing for the fourth and perhaps most ambitious phase of its exploration of Jezero Crater.

True Anomaly, a startup developing spacecraft for space domain awareness missions, has raised $100 million in a Series B round of funding.

United Launch Alliance conducted a practice launch countdown, including fueling, of its new Vulcan-Centaur rocket on Dec. 12.

More than 15 months after a New Shepard booster failed, Blue Origin plans to resume flights of its reusable suborbital vehicle, with liftoff set for Dec. 18.

Satellite technology company Quasar is targeting the U.S. military market with a new, ground-based steerable phased array radar for space domain awareness.

The Pentagon has reshuffled how it presents its space-focused forces to combatant commands, modifying a scheme to have a broader goal of improving readiness.