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    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      Virgin Galactic
      Virgin Galactic set to start commercial space flights this month

      Richard Branson’s company has endured numerous delays on the path to getting operations under way

      Richard Branson
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
      The coming of age of the global space economy

      Consolidation of the sector looms amid greater competitive pressure

      An Inmarsat GX1-4 satellite in space
    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      Slaying space zombies

      The facts and fiction of final-frontier finance

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      European Space Agency
      European agency aims to develop spacecraft to take astronauts to Moon

      ESA director-general outlines plan to develop independent human launch capability within a decade

      An artist’s image of the European Space Agency’s new-generation rocket launcher, the Ariane 6
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Virgin Orbit
      Branson and creditors of Virgin Orbit raise $36mn from fire sale

      Rivals Rocket Lab and Stratolaunch acquire assets of failed rocket company

      Virgin Orbit’s ‘Cosmic Girl’ prepares for take-off from Cornwall with its underwing rocket payload
    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
      Starship enterprise: the economics of Elon Musk’s bold bet

      Does the satellite industry actually need the enormous capacity that SpaceX has to offer?

      SpaceX’s Starship lifts off from a launchpad near Brownsville, Texas
    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Japanese bid to make first commercial Moon landing ends in failure

      Start-up behind attempt says communication with craft was lost metres from surface

      Takeshi Hakamada, founder of ispace, bows after explaining that communication with its Moon lander had been cut off on Wednesday
    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      Space Exploration Technologies Corp
      SpaceX rocket explodes before reaching orbit

      Failure to separate from booster leads to setback for Elon Musk-led company building spacecraft capable of flying to Mars

      A picture showing SpaceX’s Starship exploding and breaking into pieces minutes after take off
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Space Exploration Technologies Corp
      Elon Musk’s SpaceX calls off first attempt at Starship launch

      Mission represents important step in billionaire’s quest to take humans to Mars

      SpaceX’s Starship on its launch pad near Brownsville, Texas
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Space exploration
      Juice spacecraft begins eight-year voyage to Jupiter after successful launch

      Complex mission will search for signs of ocean life on icy moons close to solar system’s biggest planet

      An Ariane-5 rocket lifts off from its launchpad at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana
    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Europe’s cosmic dreams have a billionaire problem

      Old world, meet final frontier

    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
      Lex
      OneWeb/Eutelsat: sky-high terminal cost brings valuation down to earth Premium content

      The need for scale is why OneWeb is combining with French group Eutelsat and seeking a London listing

      A rocket carrying satellites of UK company OneWeb blasts off from a launchpad in the Amur region of Russia
    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Virgin Orbit
      Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy protection in US

      Richard Branson’s rocket launch spin-off has already ceased operations and cut 85% of workforce

      A Virgin Orbit Boeing 747-400 aircraft named Cosmic Girl
    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Satellites
      Mis-steps that brought Virgin Orbit crashing back to earth

      Branson vehicle teeters after series of flawed decisions and a failed launch lead to painful denouement

      A model of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket
    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Virgin Orbit
      Virgin Orbit shares plunge after announcing ‘ceased operations’

      Richard Branson’s rocket company to axe 85% of staff as it struggles to secure rescue funding

      A replica of Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket  at Newquay Airport
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Isar defies space tech downturn to raise $165mn in countdown to launch

      Rival groups such as Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit have struggled to find investors

      Animated image of Isar Aerospace’s first generation Spectrum rocket taking off from an imaginary launch pad
    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Satellites
      Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit in talks about potential buyout

      Shares hit after company announces ‘operational pause’ and puts staff on unpaid furlough

      Employees prepare for the launch of the LauncherOne rocket, operated by Virgin Orbit
    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      FT SeriesThe Henry Mance Interview
      Tim Peake: ‘I do not see us having a problem getting to Mars’

      The Henry Mance Interview | The British astronaut is convinced that humans will live on the Red Planet

      Tim Peake
    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Space exploration
      Europe’s boldest space mission to search for life in outer solar system

      Juice spacecraft’s ambitious 12-year voyage will observe Jupiter and three of its moons

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Airbus SE
      Airbus to spin out pioneering solar-powered drone programme

      The Zephyr has a wingspan of 25m but weighs just 75kg and uses solar panels to fly and recharge its batteries

      The Zephyr HAPS aircraft being hand-launched
    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Space funding plunges 58% from record year as investors shun risk

      Many put off by ‘disappointing’ performance of companies that were highly valued during 2021 space boom

      A SpaceX rocket is launched
    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
      Moscow’s military reshuffle

      EU draws up plans to stockpile scarce medicines

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Sinead O'Sullivan
      Europe’s space ambitions are hobbled by funding structures

      It’s no use looking to the success of Nasa when investors on the continent are leery of taking risky bets

      A rocket launch from the Esrange space centre in north Sweden
    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      Virgin Orbit scrambles to establish why first UK satellite launch failed

      Very public blow to British ambitions to be player in Europe’s ‘space race’

      Virgin Orbit’s chief executive, Dan Hart
    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      Virgin Orbit
      Virgin Orbit shares sink after rocket ‘anomaly’

      Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne prevented from gaining orbit in blow to British space ambitions

      Cosmic Girl, a repurposed Boeing 747 aircraft carrying the LauncherOne rocket under its left wing, prepares for take-off on Monday
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