Astroscale’s UK branch announced it had won a contract on Wednesday to continue working on an active debris removal mission that will take two defunct British sats out of orbit. The £1.95M ($2.5M) contract from the UK Space Agency will fund development of the Cleaning Outer Space Mission through Innovative Captures, or COSMIC, spacecraft. COSMIC: […] The post Astroscale Wins Next Phase of UK’s COSMIC Mission appeared first on Payload.

Four top lawmakers sent a letter to NASA late Friday casting much doubt on the agency’s decision to halt its VIPER mission after already sinking $450M into the spacecraft, which was fully assembled and awaiting testing. The post Congress on VIPER Cancellation: Not So Fast appeared first on Payload.

Quantum entanglement swapping has been demonstrated in the lab, but never before in space. The post Boeing To Launch Groundbreaking Orbital Quantum Experiment appeared first on Payload.

The TX-based native-American owned space manufacturing and services company has spent over a decade slowly building its space expertise, and now it’s paying off in a big way. The post The Steady Rise of Arrow Science and Technology appeared first on Payload.

The second stage of a ULA rocket that sent a NOAA weather satellite to orbit in 2018 broke apart dramatically in orbit last week, generating a debris cloud first tracked by Slingshot Aerospace. The post Slingshot Tracks Centaur Break-Up in HEO appeared first on Payload.

This year’s cohort is Techstars most international group yet, with five of the startups headquartered outside the US. The post Meet the Techstars Fall Class of 2024 appeared first on Payload.

Blue has yet to test fire New Glenn’s second stage or perform an integrated first stage engine test firing. The post New Glenn Debut Delayed Along With EscaPADE Mars Mission appeared first on Payload.

If the space economy is young, then the space insurance market is infantile. While Relm has been insuring space companies since 2023, they’re looking to grow their involvement in the industry. The post Relm Insurance’s New Policies for New Space appeared first on Payload.

Chinese rocket startup iSpace announced yesterday that it secured $99M in Series C and C+ funding to help accelerate the development of its first-stage reusable launch vehicle, Hyperbola-3.  The post Chinese Launch Startup i-Space Raises $99M Series C appeared first on Payload.

“Literally everything we put into space will eventually have one of these things.” The post Quantum Timekeepers Raise $3.7M For A Precise Clock appeared first on Payload.

“If we have a sustained supply base of people constantly innovating on material systems manufacturing processes, a future capsule maybe costs half as much." The post Air Force Invests in Canopy’s Thermal Protection Tech appeared first on Payload.

Since GPS became operational in 1993, the US has been far and away the leader in satellite navigation technology. But the landscape is rapidly changing, and international alternatives are catching up.  The post GPS Faces Growing Competition from China’s BeiDou  appeared first on Payload.