Space travel is complex, expensive, and risky. Great sums and valuable payloads are on the line every time one spacecraft docks with another. One slip and a billion-dollar mission could be lost. Aerospace engineers believe that autonomous control, like the ...

Starfish Space’s ambitious first mission to demonstrate on-orbit rendezvous and docking tech has officially come to a close, with the startup managing to complete some of the objectives thanks to a little help from an unexpected partner: space logistics ...

Momentus' Vigoride space tug can host experimental payloads. Credit: Momentus Momentus is to demonstrate multiple “low-cost” sensors for in-space rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) during a mission in early 2026. The company develops and ...

A new collaboration between Starfish Space and Impulse Space has made waves in the space exploration community with the successful Remora mission. Recently revealed, this mission involved two private spacecraft conducting a surprise rendezvous in Earth’s ...

Defense-focused space technology startup True Anomaly has received key permits from regulators that will allow it to demonstrate imaging and rendezvous capabilities on-orbit for the first time. The two authorizations — from the National Oceanic and ...