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The 2023 SpaceNews Icon Awards: Winners

SpaceNews established the awards in 2017 to recognize and celebrate the people, programs and institutions shaping a rapidly evolving global space economy. Chosen by...

NASA updating policy for rideshare missions

WASHINGTON — NASA is developing an updated rideshare policy for science missions that reflects both new launch opportunities as well as challenges faced in...

Amazon adds Falcon 9 to multi-billion-dollar Project Kuiper launch campaign

TAMPA, Fla. — Amazon has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch an unspecified number of satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband constellation on...

Amazon buys three launches from SpaceX for rival internet constellation

Tech giant Amazon is adding a fifth rocket to launch its satellite internet constellation. In a surprise move on Friday afternoon, the company announced...

NASA acknowledges possibility of short-term post-ISS gap

WASHINGTON — While NASA seeks to maintain an uninterrupted human presence in low Earth orbit, an agency official said a short-term gap between the...

NASA Mars smallsat mission to be on first New Glenn launch

WASHINGTON — NASA expects that a Mars smallsat mission will be on the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch vehicle within a...

Capitol Hill budget battle may limit initial funding of some National Security Space Launch missions

The U.S. Space Systems Command revealed the details of its latest batch of launch contracts for national security missions shared between United Launch Alliance...

Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander arrives in Florida ahead of Christmas Eve Moon-bound launch

The first payload teed up for NASA’s industry-led missions to the Moon has arrived in Florida. Astrobotic announced on Halloween that its Peregrine lunar...

Blue Origin reveals mockup of Blue Moon lunar lander prototype

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin has unveiled a full-sized mockup of an uncrewed version of its Blue Moon lunar lander that will test technologies intended...

On-time Artemis landings by SpaceX, Blue Origin possible, but face “great challenges”

After a successful mission with Artemis 1 in November, 2022, and with the pieces of the Artemis 2 architecture coming together for a launch...

Commercial space companies say cut red tape or U.S. will lose its lead in spaceflight

The three companies who have flown people to space and back, Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, joined two experts at a Congressional hearing...

SpaceX battles regulatory process that could hold up Starship test flight for months

Update Oct. 18: Added date that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received the final biological assessment from the Federal Aviation Administration. SpaceX leadership is heading...

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