Apex becomes billion-dollar company with $200 million Series D round
Posted: Sun, Sep 14 4:09 AM ET (0809 GMT)
Satellite manufacturer Apex has raised $200 million, vaulting the company’s valuation to more than $1 billion. The company announced Friday a Series D round...

SpaceX launches Indonesia communications satellite
Posted: Sun, Sep 14 4:07 AM ET (0807 GMT)
It took four tries, but a Falcon 9 finally launched an Indonesian communications satellite Thursday night. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida,...

Soyuz launches Progress cargo spacecraft to ISS
Posted: Sun, Sep 14 4:06 AM ET (0806 GMT)
Russia launched a Progress cargo spacecraft Thursday. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 11:54 am EDT (1554 GMT),...

Falcon 9 launches first SDA Transport Layer Tranche 1 satellites
Posted: Sun, Sep 14 4:04 AM ET (0804 GMT)
The Space Development Agency launched the first satellites for a communications constellation Thursday. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California...

NASA announces discovery of a potential biosignature of past life on Mars
Posted: Sun, Sep 14 4:02 AM ET (0802 GMT)
NASA officials said a Mars rock sampled by the Perseverance rover offers the best evidence yet of past life on Mars, even as plans to...

Senate hearing raises doubts of Artemis
Posted: Sat, Sep 6 8:50 AM ET (1250 GMT)
A former NASA administrator warned that it was “highly unlikely” NASA would return astronauts to the moon before China landed astronauts there. Testifying at a...

NASA names new associate administrator
Posted: Sat, Sep 6 8:46 AM ET (1246 GMT)
NASA has named the head of an exploration planning office as its new associate administrator. NASA announced Wednesday that Amit Kshatriya, formerly head of the...

President Trump moves Space Command HQ to Alabama
Posted: Sat, Sep 6 8:44 AM ET (1244 GMT)
President Trump announced Tuesday he is moving the headquarters of U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama. In an Oval Office event, Trump, Secretary of...

Israel launches reconnaissance satellite
Posted: Sat, Sep 6 8:41 AM ET (1241 GMT)
Israel launched a reconnaissance satellite Tuesday. A Shavit rocket lifted off from Palmachim Airbase at 3:30 pm EDT (1930 GMT) and placed the Ofek-...

SpaceX conducts Starlink launch doubleheader
Posted: Sat, Sep 6 8:40 AM ET (1240 GMT)
SpaceX carried out two Starlink launches just over eight hours apart. One Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:51 pm...