SpaceX's SN10 Starship prototype reached an altitude of about 6 miles and landed back upright for the first time, but then exploded 8 minutes after the touchdown in their latest test flight on Wednesday. Two previous Starship prototypes, the SN8 and SN9, exploded during their landing attempts following high-altitude flight...
Virgin Group's US-based spaceflight company, Virgin Galactic, has announced that it delayed its space tourism flights that were expected to happen this year to early 2022. After the announcement, the company shares ($SPCE) fell 11.9% in trading. CEO Michael Colglazier said that Virgin Galactic’s next rocket-powered test flight...
NASA has awarded SpaceX a $331.8 million contract to take the first two parts of its Gateway space station to space, which will be orbiting the moon as part of the Artemis program that aims to establish a permanent human presence in space. NASA plans to send a man...
California-based rocket launch startup Astra [https://astra.com/] will go public via a SPAC by merging with Holicity at a $2.1 billion valuation. The deal is expected to generate $500 million for Astra. It has raised $100M since its inception in 2016 from investors such as Salesforce CEO Marc...
