NASA, Axiom Space sign order for first private astronaut mission to ISS
Axiom’s astronauts will stay for eight days in the orbiting laboratory as part of the mission
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SpaceX to launch DOGE-1 lunar mission in Q1 2022
10 May 21The space company will collaborate with Geometric Space on the mission to be paid entirely with Dogecoin
France’s Eutelsat to acquire stake in OneWeb for $550m
29 Apr 21The transaction will take the total funding raised by the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite company to $1.9bn
Blue Origin protests NASA’s $2.9bn lander contract to SpaceX
27 Apr 21The Jeff Bezos-owned company has filed a protest with the US GAO, on the grounds that the award…
NASA awards $2.9bn contract to SpaceX for human landing system
19 Apr 21The Starship HLS developed by SpaceX will land two US astronauts on Moon
Elon Musk’s SpaceX secures $1.16bn in recent equity financing
15 Apr 21The private space company had raised nearly $850m in February to take its valuation to $74bn
Lockheed Martin, Omnispace partner on space-based 5G global network
24 Mar 21The partners expect the proposed 5G satellite hybrid connectivity to enhance terrestrial mobility
NASA, SpaceX partner to share information for spaceflight safety
19 Mar 21The partnership will focus on preventing conjunction between NASA spacecraft and SpaceX Starlink satellites
Space company Rocket Lab to merge with Vector Acquisition in $4.1bn deal
02 Mar 21The deal enables the small satellite technology provider to become a publicly traded company
Delta Air Lines signs deal with IBM for cloud migration
19 Feb 21The partnership will enable the transformation of the airline's computing environment to run on a hybrid cloud architecture…