Space business

SpaceX may launch its next test flight of a prototype of its Mars rocketship this week, founder and chief executive Elon Musk said on Twitter Sunday.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday said he recieved two positive and two negative COVID-19 tests less than two days ahead of his historic SpaceX Crew-1 mission.

Virgin Galactic is putting the world's first commercial spaceport to use later this month when it launches it's first spaceflight from Spaceport America in New Mexico, which the company expects to generate $1 billion a year annually. 

NASA has reached a key milestone with the U.S. companies competing to provide landers for future crewed missions to the moon.

Blue Origin, the space exploration company led by Amazon co-founder multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, is trying to get the U.S. Air Force to invest in the development of its New Glenn rocket, according to a media report.

NASA has picked Houston-based Intuitive Machines to land a water-measuring technology on the moon.

NASA’s first-ever agency-wide economic impact report shows the space agency’s contribution to the U.S. economy.

SpaceX, known for its reusable rockets and astronaut capsules, is ramping up satellite production for Starlink.

Boeing Co is submitting to an independent review of its compliance and ethics practices, according to an agreement struck with NASA and the U.S. Air Force and seen by Reuters, part of widening fallout from its behavior in bidding to supply lunar landing vehicles.

 The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into whether NASA's former head of human spaceflight gave Boeing Co improper guidance during a lucrative lunar-lander contract competition, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The U.S. Air Force awarded billions in contracts Friday to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, as part of its National Security Space launch services.

SpaceX launched a prototype of its Mars rocketship hundreds of feet into the air, then landed it upright in a successful test flight.

Virgin Galactic unveiled the design for an upcoming high-speed aircraft this week that may be able to fly from New York to London in about 90 minutes.

Virgin Galactic released its earnings Monday, just a few hours after unveiling a new ship that the company called a “new frontier in high speed travel.”

Virgin Galactic says this is what a “new frontier in high speed travel” looks like. 

Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk's SpaceX company.

Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk's SpaceX company.

The company received government approval to put more than 3,200 satellites into orbit with the goal of beaming internet service to Earth.

The Space Foundation released its Space Report on Thursday, which found the space economy grew by $9 billion in 2018, a 2.2 percent increase.

NASA’s Perseverance rode a mighty Atlas V rocket into a clear morning sky in the world’s third and final Mars launch of the summer.