Startup Inversion Space says its first flight of a reentry vehicle was “profoundly valuable” even though the vehicle did not reenter.

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Radian Aerospace, a company with long-term plans to develop a spaceplane, intends first to develop a reentry vehicle as both a technology demonstrator and for hypersonic test applications.

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German startup Atmos Space Cargo says it considers the first flight of its reentry vehicle a success despite limited data on how it performed during reentry.

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The military will seek environmental approval for two landing pads at Johnston Atoll

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European startup Atmos Space Cargo has received the regulatory approvals it needs for its first mission to demonstrate reentry technologies.

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The Air Force Research Laboratory will leverage Varda Space’s reentry capsules to test various payloads

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Inversion, a startup developing systems to return cargo from space to Earth, has received a license for its first mission launching in November.

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In an era of increasing global launch rates, heightened by the buckshot approach to tossing mega-satellite constellations into Earth orbit, there’s also escalating anxiety about the ramifications from reentry of […]

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The European Space Agency successfully deorbited the first of four Cluster space science satellites Sept. 8, performing a first-of-its-kind “targeted reentry” over the South Pacific.

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NASA released a request for information (International Space Station Deorbit Capability) from U.S. industry for capabilities to contribute to safely deorbiting the International Space Station as part of its planned […]

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