Stoke Space said the $100 million Series B round will fund continued development of a fully reusable two-stage rocket it calls Nova. Credit: Stoke Space Technologies By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 6 October 2023 WASHINGTON — Stoke Space, a startup that recently tested a prototype of the upper stage
A suborbital version of Rocket Lab's Electron rocket, dubbed HASTE, launched for the first time June 17, demonstrating its utility to support hypersonic testing. (NASA/Patrick Black) By Courtney Albon, Published by Defense News, 6 October 2023 WASHINGTON — In the six months since Rocket Lab revealed its hypersonic test vehicle,
Concept art shows the potential for directed energy weapons against unmanned systems. (Lockheed Martin) By Joe Lonsdale, Published by C4ISRNET, 6 October 2023 We live in an increasingly gray zone and asymmetric world, where coercive actions must be effective against near-peer adversaries and non-state actors alike. Ukraine is largely a
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity lands at Spaceport America Oct. 6 at the end of the Galactic 04 mission. Credit: Spaceport America By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 6 October 2023 WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic continued its monthly cadence of commercial suborbital spaceflights Oct. 6, carrying three customers that included the
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Inmarsat-6 F2 Feb. 17 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Credit: Inmarsat / SpaceX By Jason Rainbow, Published by SpaceNews, 6 October 2023 An issue with the Inmarsat-6 (I6) F6 2 satellite could send the space insurance market deep into the red, pushing up
By Katyanna Quach, Published by The Register, 6 October 2023 The European Space Agency has funded a mission to launch a fleet of satellites that will help scientists study space weather and how it can increase debris orbiting our home world. The project, dubbed ROARS - Revealing the Orbital and
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off carrying Amazon's two satellites for its space-based internet service on Friday. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) By Christian Davenport, Published by The Washington Post, 6 October 2023 Amazon stretched its reach to space on Friday, sending its first two internet satellites to orbit, a
Rocket Lab will use the former headquarters of Virgin Orbit for producing Rutherford and Archimedes engines. Credit: Rocket Lab/Austin Adams By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 5 October 2023 LONG BEACH, Calif. — Rocket Lab has opened a new engine development center in a building that, six months earlier, was
