Space Industry: Latest News and Analysis
Space is now an industry with launch cadences, order books and supply chains, and AirPro News covers it the way we cover aviation: from the announcement, with the numbers.
That means SpaceX, ULA, Rocket Lab, Arianespace, Blue Origin and the launch start-ups; NASA, ESA, JAXA, ISRO and the other agencies; satellite operators and manufacturers; and the growing in-space services, station and lunar economies. This page gathers every AirPro News story on space, newest first.
What we watch
- Launch. Starship’s test campaign and its path to operational missions; Falcon 9 cadence; Vulcan, Ariane 6, New Glenn and Neutron entering service; and the small-launch companies fighting for the remaining market.
- Agencies and exploration. NASA’s Artemis lunar programme and commercial crew and cargo contracts, ESA’s launcher and science missions, and the national programmes in Japan, India, China and the Gulf.
- Satellites. Constellation build-outs and their launch contracts, Earth-observation and communications operators, and the manufacturers and component suppliers behind them.
- Defence space. Space Force and allied military procurement, missile-warning and communications satellites, and the industrial contracts that follow.
- The in-space economy. Commercial stations, life-extension and servicing vehicles, lunar landers, in-space manufacturing, and the funding rounds that decide which of them get built.
Latest space coverage
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SpaceX Catches Starship From Orbit as Flight 15 Booster Is Lost
SpaceX caught Starship’s upper stage with its Starbase tower on November 14 after 14 orbits, but the Super Heavy booster was lost…
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NASA Opens Applications for Astronaut Candidate Class of 2027
NASA is taking astronaut applications until December 3, 2026, with a pilot route starting at 750 hours as pilot-in-command in jets.
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Office of Strategic Capital Offers Rocket Lab $150M Neutron Loan
The Office of Strategic Capital signed a $150 million conditional loan commitment with Rocket Lab for Neutron, after a $150 million Stoke…
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NASA Flies SPLICE Landing System on Alta-X Drone at Rogers Dry Lake
NASA’s SPLICE payload flew simulated lunar descents on an Alta-X drone, mapping terrain and diverting to safer landing sites.
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NASA Picks Eight Firms for $10 Billion CLPS 2 Moon Delivery Contract
NASA names eight CLPS 2 lunar lander companies, raises CLPS 1.0 to $4.2 billion and hires Blue Origin to deliver the PROMISE…
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Prometheus Engine Hot-Fires at P5 With Cold-Spray Combustion Chamber
Europe’s reusable Prometheus engine fired at DLR’s P5 bench on October 29, 2026, with a cold gas spray chamber and reignited without…
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Lockheed Martin Speeds Orion Production for Artemis III, IV and V
Lockheed Martin adds more than 100 Orion assembly jobs at Kennedy, runs three shifts and lifts Avcoat heat shield output at Michoud.
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SpaceX Secures $40 Billion GPU Lease With Apollo Global
SpaceX and Apollo Global Management agree to a $40 billion master finance lease for NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs.
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NASA Restructures Artemis Program, Targets 2028 Moon Landing
NASA redefines Artemis III as a 2027 LEO demo and targets 2028 for the first crewed lunar landing with SpaceX or Blue…
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BAE Systems Acquires Colorado Facility for Space Hardware
BAE Systems buys a 130,000-sq-ft facility in Weld County, Colorado, backed by nearly $20M in tax incentives for space hardware production.
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Firefly Aerospace Completes Elytra PDR for NASA MoonFall
Firefly Aerospace passed the Elytra spacecraft PDR less than four months after its $75M JPL subcontract for the 2028 MoonFall mission.
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Reflect Orbital Buys Two Skyroot Launches for Satellite Fleet
Reflect Orbital purchases two dedicated Skyroot Aerospace launches for its sunlight-reflecting satellite constellation, announced Oct. 14, 2026.
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