LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) (“Virgin Orbit” or the “Company”), the responsive launch and space solutions company, today announced its financial results for the ...

Virgin Orbit and Arqit Quantum announce an extension to their collaboration that will accelerate space-based encryption services to private, defense, and intelligence customers globally. Arqit has ...

If you think manufacturing, assembling and servicing highly complex equipment on Earth is challenging, try doing it in space. On-orbit operations and servicing are vital emerging technologies, and you ...

On its third operational mission, Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne placed seven cubesats into a 500-kilometer orbit at an inclination of 45 degrees. Credit: Virgin Orbit WASHINGTON — Small launch vehicle ...

Louisville’s Sierra Space Corp., a division of Sierra Nevada Corp., and Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin are teaming up to build Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station ...

Astra Space reached orbit for the first time with rocket LV0007 on Saturday. "This is an incredibly hard thing to do," Astra CEO Chris Kemp said on the company's webcast. Astra joins SpaceX, Rocket ...

At this point, it's still a bit of a guessing game. Like its sister company Virgin Galactic, Virgin Orbit takes a hybrid approach to space launch, loading a two-stage LauncherOne rocket onto a ...

There’s another launch company newly able to count itself among the small (but growing) group that has reached orbit: Astra. The Alameda-based rocket startup notched that achievement late Friday night ...