Blue Origin racks up a full six minutes of firing time on BE-7 moon lander engine RENTON, Wash. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it has test-fired its BE-7 rocket engine for… Read More
Government officials are reaching out to commercial ventures for space race revival RENTON, Wash. — Fifty years after the landmark Apollo 11 mission blasted off for the climax of the U.S.-Soviet space… Read More
How a snafu over swarming satellites led Spaceflight to sharpen its launch policy When India’s PSLV rocket launched a host of satellites into orbit in January, one big piece was missing: the Federal… Read More
Blue Origin targets moon landing by 2023 as an early step toward lunar settlement Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is laying out a plan to support the creation… Read More
Virgin Orbit gets set to start flight tests of its LauncherOne air-launch system RENTON, Wash. — British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit venture is getting ready to put its LauncherOne rocket system through… Read More
Why SpaceX and Boeing can sell spots on commercial space taxis to private travelers RENTON, Wash. — When NASA’s Phil McAlister worked out the contracts with SpaceX and Boeing to ferry astronauts to and from… Read More
Amid departures, Planetary Resources is holding out hope for an asteroid mining comeback It’s been months since Planetary Resources had to scale back its asteroid aspirations because a fundraising campaign came up short —… Read More
