A Skylo base station in assembly.Skylo TechnologiesSilicon Valley space startup Skylo Technologies landed funding from the corporate venture arms of Intel, BMW and Samsung, as the company aims to bridge the gap between satellite and terrestrial communications.Skylo raised $37 million through an equity round, the company told CNBC, that was...
K2 Space co-founders Karan Kunjur and Neel Kunjur at the company's facility in Torrance, California.Credit: K2 SpaceLos Angeles-based startup K2 Space raised $50 million in new funding as the company works to build monster satellites to match the massive rockets that are coming to market. Nearly two years since founding,...
An artist's rendering of the Starlab space station in low Earth orbit.Voyager Space / Starlab Space LLCA contract written in the stars.Private station Starlab will fly on a Starship rocket later this decade to get to orbit, the companies' developing both spacecraft announced on Wednesday.Starlab – being built by...
A view from onboard the upper stage of rocket LV0009 during the company's livestream on March 15, 2022.Astra / NASASpaceflightThe space sector's on the tail end of a boom-and-bust cycle. While many companies battened down the hatches to survive, a few publicly-traded names are running on fumes.A flurry of...
Lockheed Martin's Tranche 0 Transport Layer satellites are seen in one of the company's processing facilities.Lockheed MartinThe Pentagon on Tuesday announced about $2.5 billion in contracts will go to L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, and Sierra Space to build satellites for an expanding military system.The U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency...
A long exposure photo shows the company's fourth Alpha rocket mission launching from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Dec. 22, 2023.Sean Parker / Firefly AerospaceInvestment in the space sector bounced back last year, rebounding closer to the record high of 2021, according to a report Tuesday by New...
An artist's rendering of a Momentus Vigoride transfer vehicle deploying a satellite in orbit.MomentusSpace company Momentus warned shareholders in a securities filing on Friday that the company is running out of money and does not have a financial lifeline.Momentus, once valued at more than $1 billion before going public...
SpaceX founder Elon Musk and T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert on stage during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event in Boca Chica Beach, Texas, on Aug. 25, 2022.Michael Gonzalez | Getty ImagesSpaceX successfully sent text messages via Starlink satellites using T-Mobile's network, it announced Wednesday, as Elon Musk's company aims...
The crew members of the Artemis 2 mission of the U.S. space agency NASA, left to right, Reid Wiseman Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, stand at a press event in the ArianeGroup building.Hauke-Christian Dittrich | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesNASA is pushing back the schedule for upcoming...
Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander is seen during preparations for launch near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.United Launch AlliancePittsburgh-based Astrobotic's inaugural lunar mission suffered a malfunction shortly after launch, and the company is calling off the landing attempt.It would have been the first U.S. moon landing in more than...