Articles about commercial space

Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital rocket ship on launch pad in 2022

Blue Origin is ready to launch New Shepard spaceship after more than a year on hold

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture plans to send its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on an uncrewed research mission as… Read More

Orbite customers on zero-G airplane flight

Orbite begins the launch countdown for its commercial astronaut training programs

After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called… Read More

Bill Nelson announces award to Blue Origin

NASA chief to visit Blue Origin for summit recognizing Seattle’s place in space

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will visit Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture in Kent, Wash., to get a firsthand look… Read More

Blue Origin spacefliers in suborbital New Shepard capsule

Blue Origin will work with NASA on orbital transportation system for astronauts

NASA says it will collaborate with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture on the development of new space transportation capabilities… Read More

Illustration: Nuclear thermal propulsion system

How power is blazing a trail for America’s space effort — and for nuclear startups

As more and more hardware goes into Earth orbit, and eventually to the moon and Mars, where will the power… Read More

Gravitics raises $20M for plans to build space station modules north of Seattle

A space venture called Gravitics has emerged from stealth with $20 million in seed funding and a plan to build… Read More

Boeing’s Starliner space taxi begins second test flight to the space station (with a dummy on board)

Two and a half years after an initial orbital flight test fell short, Boeing is trying once again to put… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ worlds collide: Amazon and AWS join Blue Origin on Orbital Reef space station team

Amazon and its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, say they’re joining forces with another company founded by Jeff Bezos… Read More

Husband and wife score a first for commercial spaceflight during suborbital Blue Origin trip

Say hello to the final frontier’s latest power couple: Marc and Sharon Hagle, who became the first husband-and-wife team to… Read More

Blue Origin crew looking at New Shepard spaceship

All systems go for Blue Origin’s spacefliers — but not for weather at Texas launch site

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has rescheduled its next crewed suborbital space mission for Thursday, due to… Read More

Billionaire kicks off new orbital missions with SpaceX, featuring spacewalk and Starlink tests

Five months after billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman led a crew for a privately funded philanthropic space mission, he’s doing… Read More

Year in Space: Jeff Bezos and his billionaire rivals finally usher in the age of commercial spaceflight

For 25 years, I’ve been recapping the top stories about space and looking forward to next year’s trends on the… Read More

Citizen spacefliers splash down, finishing up Inspiration4’s charity mission in orbit

The first non-governmental flight to orbit ended with a splash — and with the safe return of the Inspiration4 mission’s… Read More

Why Inspiration4’s ‘all-civilian’ trip to orbit represents the dawn of a second space age

Are they space tourists? Citizen spacefliers? All-civilian astronauts? Whatever you call them, the four teammates who are due to go… Read More

How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and cybersecurity

What will commercial space stations be good for? The application that typically comes up would be their use as space… Read More

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin promise details coming next week for how to buy first seat on spaceflight

Step aside, Mannequin Skywalker. Blue Origin is getting ready for real humans to man its New Shepard spaceship and replace… Read More

‘It’s time’: Jeff Bezos hails Blue Origin’s fiery rehearsal for crewed suborbital spaceflight

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture flew a mannequin into space today during the 15th test flight for… Read More

Seattle-area engineer and Arizona teacher join billionaire’s crew for charity space trip

The crew is set for a philanthropic space flight that’s being funded by a tech billionaire — and Christopher Sembroski,… Read More

Axiom raises $130M for its space station — and adds Blue Origin alum to its board

The longtime president of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, Rob Meyerson, will be joining the board of… Read More

Tech tycoon buys SpaceX flight to orbit, sets aside seats for sweepstakes winner (and a fellow techie)

A billionaire CEO who also happens to be a trained jet pilot is buying a days-long flight to orbit aboard… Read More

Relativity and Reach, Stoke and Starfish: Blue Origin veterans spark space startups

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture turned 20 years old this week — and although the privately held… Read More

Former Spaceflight CEO and French entrepreneur join forces to launch astronaut training startup

If the 2010s were the decade when small satellites revolutionized the space industry, the 2020s will be when commercial space… Read More

Virgin Galactic and NASA make a deal on services for private orbital astronauts

Virgin Galactic says it has signed an agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas to develop a new readiness… Read More

NASA’s new head of human spaceflight says SpaceX’s Dragon is in good shape

NASA’s newly named associate administrator for human exploration and operations, Kathy Lueders, says that SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule “has been… Read More

NASA picks Astrobotic to deliver its VIPER rover to lunar south pole for nearly $200M

NASA has awarded a $199.5 million contract to Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon’s south pole… Read More

After sparking consternation at NASA, Trump campaign pulls ad featuring SpaceX launch

An online advertisement that plays off last weekend’s historic crewed SpaceX launch to boost President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign drew… Read More

NASA’s Dragon riders capture the flag, nine years after it was left on the space station

A day after arriving at the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob… Read More

‘Dragon arriving’: For first time, astronauts reach the space station in SpaceX capsule

For the first time in nearly nine years, astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station in a spaceship that… Read More

After seeing milestone launch, President Trump hails space effort as a force for ‘pride and unity’

President Donald Trump held up America’s space effort as a unifying endeavor for a divided nation after becoming only the… Read More

Crew Dragon’s astronauts give their SpaceX spaceship a storied name: Endeavour

The two NASA astronauts who rode SpaceX’s first crew-carrying Dragon capsule to orbit today named their spacecraft, continuing a tradition… Read More