Los Angeles-based X PRIZE Foundation, the organization behind the X PRIZE spaceship cup, said Wednesday that it will offer tickets for sale to the public for the upcoming $2 million Lunar Lander Challenge. The Lunar Lander Challenge is designed to encoura

Santa Ana-based Irvine Aerospace is reporting today that it is teaming up with Rocketplane Kistler, one of the recipients of NASA's recent $500M project to commercialize spaceflight deliveries to the ISS. Irvin Aerospace said it will provide joint develop

Anousheh Ansari, co-founder of the X Prize Foundation and the Ansari X Prize, is headed to space on the upcoming Russian mission to the International Space Station, after a Japanese tourist was found to be medically unfit. Ansari, along with brother Amir

Long Beach-based Sea Launch, which is developing a mobile, sea-platform for the launch of rockets, said today that it has successfully delivered a communications satellite to geosynchronous orbit. The firm, which is a joint venture of Boeing, and a number

NASA said Friday that it is investing $500M in two commercial firms to develop commercial space vehicles. The agency said that it is investing in El Segundo, California-based SpaceX, and Oklahoma-based Rocketplane-Kistler to develop and demonstrate vehicl

San Diego-based LightPointe Communications has shut its doors, according to sources close to the company. LightPointe was developing free space optic systems for connecting campuses and last-mile connections, and had received over 4 rounds of funding from

San Diego-based LightPointe, a developer of free space optics systems, has rolled out a new system that supports high bandwidth HDTV transmissions. The firm said today its new FlightStrata HD wireless solutions meets the requirements for sending High-Defi