Space business

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin kicked off a three-phase online auction in early May, offering one seat on the first flight of its New Shepard spacecraft, which has already had over a dozen successful flights to and from space, according to the company.

Relativity Space announced on Tuesday that it has raised $650 million in Series E funding. The fresh capital brings the company's estimated valuation to about $4.2 billion, the second most valuable private equity space company behind SpaceX, with total funding of $1.3 billion to date.

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit announced Tuesday that its upcoming orbital mission, dubbed "Tubular Bells, Part One" after the first album recorded by Virgin Records, is on track to launch in the last week of June.

Jeff Bezos announced Monday on Instagram that his brother will accompany him on a journey to space on Blue Origin's rocket.

Jeff Bezos announced Monday that he will travel to space next month on his company Blue Origin's first passenger flight.

The competition between commercial space giants Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos continued on Friday.

Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin may still be up to receive federal dollars for a mission to the moon despite losing out on a lucrative NASA award to SpaceX earlier this year, as Congress weighs an amendment to pending legislation.

The race is on to democratize the rocket-launch industry, and Phantom Space Corp., a roughly two-year-old startup, continued its warp-speed flight toward that goal Tuesday, announcing the acquisition of StratSpace, a major U.S. aerospace firm.

Shares of Virgin Galactic lifted off Monday after a successful first spaceflight from New Mexico's Spaceport America.

Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic announced Thursday morning that the next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo "Unity" is targeted for Saturday.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has revealed its plans for the first orbital test flight of its 160-foot Starship rocket in a filing to the Federal Communications Commission made public on Thursday.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk had “friendly” meetings discussing space exploration before a rivalry formed.

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is revaluating its next test flight and investors are not happy.

Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who went from developing Nazi weapons to helping get NASA off the ground for the U.S., wrote a novel in the years after World War II speculating about life on Mars – and how human society there would be led by “Elon.”

The Federal Aviation Administration is working with the North American Aerospace Defense Command to track any impact the Chinese rocket hurtling uncontrolled toward Earth might have on commercial air travel, the agency told FOX Business.

Virgin Orbit, the sister company of Virgin Galactic, is gearing up for its next space launch in June when it will put six satellites in orbit.

During the six-minute flight, the spacecraft rocketed upward, conducted a “belly flop” maneuver and finally righted itself before landing vertically.

Sixty years to the day that NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space aboard the Freedom 7 rocket, U.S. business leaders are continuing to help the country make major strides in space exploration.

Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin on Wednesday announced the date that it will fly its first crew of astronauts into space.

SpaceX has received more than 500,000 preorders for its Starlink satellite internet service and anticipates no technical problems meeting the demand, founder Elon Musk said on Tuesday.