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Semiconductor manufacturing in India gets a boost with ISMC’s proposed $3 billion plant in Karnataka
India set out a $10 billion push to bring semiconductor chipset manufacturing in the country back i…
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From launch vehicles to space tourism, Indian space start-ups aim high
The Vikram-S rocket, developed over the past two years and built using 3-D printing technology, rea…
PTI
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NASA's Artemis I Orion spaceship enters lunar orbit — a critical step toward sending astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972
NASA is hinging its ambitions to send astronauts to the moon and Mars — along with $50 billion spen…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Asteroid mining startup founded by ex-SpaceX and Virgin Orbit engineers books first test mission with SpaceX
AstroForge is scheduled to test its technology next year, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to get int…
Tasmin Lockwood
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A sun-skimming spacecraft captured video of a massive plasma eruption on the solar surface for the first time
The sun's outbursts can send plasma and electrically charged particles careening toward Earth. This…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has spent $1 billion trying to reach to space — while a small New Zealand startup got to orbit for a fraction of that
CEO Peter Beck says Rocket Lab has spent about $180 million to develop the Electron launch vehicle,…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX has launched a billionaire-funded crew of space tourists into orbit - the first civilian mission of its kind
SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission has carried a group of four amateur space travelers to Earth's orbit,…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elon Musk's SpaceX teases next-gen satellites, reveals company on track meet goal of 52-60 launches this year
According to Musk's slide deck, SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet constellation has secured c…
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Blue Origin's next spaceflight will include a former NASA engineer and a healthcare entrepreneur
Blue Origin is flying a group of paying tourists to the edge of space on October 12 following Jeff …
Tim Levin
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Amazon is launching its first internet satellites next year. It'll be around 2,000 satellites behind SpaceX.
Amazon's Project Kuiper is building a satellite internet service to rival SpaceX's Starlink. The fi…
Tim Levin
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A Las Vegas hotel mogul plans to send an inflatable space hotel into orbit around the moon by 2022
The company's 'Bigelow Expandable Activity Module,' or BEAM, was attached to the Internat…
Hilary Brueck
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A Russian billionaire has launched the smallest-ever spacecraft into orbit - a key step to reaching a nearby star system
"The lifetime of Proxima is several trillion years, almost a thousand times longer than the remaini…
Dave Mosher
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The next unicorn may not come from Silicon Valley
Once known as the "Paris of the Midwest" - Detroit is intent on regaining its former glory with a h…
Tory Green, Tiller Partners
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For the next 9 months, the brightest object in the night sky will be a tiny, disco-ball-like satellite
The sparkly new addition to the night sky will also draw attention to Rocket Lab, a company that's …
Erin Brodwin
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The billionaire CEO who made history with SpaceX describes facing the 'vacuum of death' in only a spacesuit
SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman said frequent space travel is "around the corner." How humans will …
Ana Altchek
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5 careers in the space industry that new grads should focus on, according to a VC
Various career paths can lead new grads to working in the space industry. Jobs on the rise include …
Robin Madell
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SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew returns to Earth victorious, making huge gains in Elon Musk's plans to send humans to Mars
The Polaris missions are helping fast-track Elon Musk's Mars city, from testing spacesuits and a sp…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Aereo, India's leading commercial drone solutions startup, secures USD 15 million in Series B funding round
The round saw participation from long-standing investors StartupXseed Ventures and Navam Capital.
ANI
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin passes 4 key milestones for its $172 million NASA contract to build a new space station
NASA awarded Blue Origin $130 million to build the Orbital Reef space station that will be a destin…
Ellyn Lapointe,Jessica Orwig,…
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Elon Musk made another big promise he may not be able to keep
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said this week he plans to make his supercomputer Dojo compete with Nvidia. It'…