An Orbital Sciences Antares rocket lifting off from Wallops, Va., to resupply the International Space Station exploded on liftoff a short time ago. The payload included the Arkyd 3, the first test ...

Workers prepare Planetary Resources’ Arkyd-6 technology demonstrator satellite for shipment at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (Planetary Resources via YouTube) Planetary Resources has ...

The explosion of a rocket with a Redmond company's satellite attached from NASA's live feed at the Wallops Island, Va., launch on Tuesday evening. Planetary Resource's first satellite was attached to ...

Despite half a century of rushing about the Solar System, the Space Age has been a spectator sport for most of humanity. On Wednesday, at a press conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, ...

A tweet from Redmond’s Planetary Resources rolled out late Tuesday evening: “A3 was just a robot! We are making more.” Earlier that day, an unmanned Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A private spaceflight company took one small step for asteroid mining this week with the launch ...

Some of Planetary Resources' asteroid-mining tech just passed a major space test. The Washington-based company's tiny Arkyd-6 satellite has completed all its mission goals in Earth orbit, just three ...

Planetary Resources just took another big step toward its asteroid-mining goal. The company's Arkyd-6 satellite rode to space last night (Jan. 11) atop an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planet, a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, in an effort to advance scientific research, development, and discovery from the NICFI Satellite Data ...