Blue Origin Confirms First Outside Funding Round in Company History
Newsha Haghgoo Blue Origin is raising outside capital for the first time since Jeff Bezos founded the company in 2000.…
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Vast Opens Lunar Programs Division, Betting on Haven Space Station Heritage for NASA’s Moon Base
Vast, the commercial space station company based in Long Beach, California, announced on 23 September 2026 that it…
Satellite Bluetooth Startup Hubble Network Raises $200 Million and Opens Its Network to All Customers
Hubble Network, a Seattle based satellite communications startup, said on 23 September 2026 that it had raised 200…
Google Moves Toward First Orbital Test of AI Chips Under Project Suncatcher
Google has confirmed that a prototype satellite carrying four of its custom artificial intelligence chips is scheduled to…
Iridium Shareholders Approve Rocket Lab’s 8 Billion Dollar Acquisition
Shareholders of Iridium Communications voted on 24 September 2026 to approve Rocket Lab’s proposed acquisition of the satellite…
Starship Reaches Orbit for the First Time on Fourteenth Test Flight
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket into orbit for the first time on 28 September 2026, a milestone the…
Outpost Launches Orbital Manufacturing as a Service With Its Own Optical Fiber Product
Outpost Technologies Corporation introduced a commercial service on 24 September 2026 that lets companies manufacture products in orbit…
Youngest Exoplanet Yet Found Caught Still Forming Inside Its Birth Disk
Astronomers have confirmed the youngest planet ever detected outside the solar system, a gas giant designated Elias 2…
Crew 13 Cleared for 1 October Launch to the International Space Station
NASA, SpaceX and their international partners completed a Flight Readiness Review on 25 September 2026 for Crew 13,…
NASA Advances PRIMA Far Infrared Telescope to Detailed Design, Targets 2033 Launch
NASA announced on 24 September 2026 that it has selected the PRIMA far infrared space telescope as the…