Private Space Companies

Google shared more details on Android 15 during its I/O 2024 event’s developer-focused sessions, as per a report. One such detail was about the company’s efforts to improve the battery life of the devices — particularly the standby battery life. The tech giant reportedly revealed that it has reworked the Doze mode in the Android system to ens...

Android 15 Beta 2 is now available for Google Pixel phones and select other smartphones. At Google I/O 2024, the company showed off the latest Android 15 beta version with new powerful security and privacy features such as Private Space, anti-theft protections, and improved threat detection, that are available to beta testers on recent Pixel phones...

Zomato unveiled its crowd-supported real-time weather monitoring infrastructure on Wednesday. Dubbed Weather Union, the company said the system is first-of-its-kind in India and the largest private infrastructure in its space in the country. Announcing the platform, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal said that its API will be made free-to-access for all in...

Private players in space technology will certainly help speed up the research in the field, Indian Space Research Organisation chairman S Somanath has said while interacting with space enthusiasts, through the official Instagram page of ISRO.

An uncrewed American lander that became the first private spaceship on the Moon sent its final image Thursday before its power banks depleted, the company that built it said.

A company from Texas is poised to attempt a feat that until now has only been accomplished by a handful of national space agencies, but could soon become commonplace for the private sector: landing on the Moon.

A US-based company attempting to be the first private entity to land a spacecraft on the Moon recently shared stunning images of Earth from space.

A private Houston-based company is set this week to lead a mission to the Moon which, if successful, will mark America's first lunar landing since the end of the Apollo era five decades ago.

Google's Private Space feature is reportedly in development for Android smartphones, that will allow users to securely hide apps on their Android smartphones in the future. Samsung has offered a similar feature — Secure Folder — since 2017. The upcoming addition of Private Space on Android will allow other phone makers to offer the same feature...

A Mumbai-based private aerospace company has supplied critical components to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for its upcoming Chandrayaan-3 mission. Liquid propulsion engines such as Vikas, CE20, and satellite thrusters for the lunar mission have been manufactured by Godrej Aerospace in its facility at Vikhroli in suburban Mumbai, a ...

Encouraged by high-profile successes elsewhere, India wants its private space companies to increase their share of the global launch market by fivefold within the next decade — an effort boosted by the personal support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At the end of 2022, Skyroot Aerospace, whose investors include Sherpalo Ventures and Singapore's...

Since the 1970s the island of Sriharikota has served as the country's Cape Canaveral, with the national space agency launching scores of spacecraft headed as far as the moon and Mars. But in November a new tenant appeared.

Japanese startup ispace lost contact Wednesday with its Hakuto-R lunar lander, the company said, suggesting its bid to be the first private firm to place a spacecraft on the Moon had failed.

Blue Origin, the private space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was awarded its first interplanetary NASA contract on Thursday to launch a mission next year to study the magnetic field around Mars, the USspace agency and company said.

Vikram S, the country's first private developed rocket, is set to launch between November 12 and 16, space startup Skyroot Aerospace said on Tuesday. With this mission, the firm is set to become the first private space company in the country to launch a rocket into space, bringing in a new era for the space sector which was opened up in 2020 to fac...

Google shared more details on Android 15 during its I/O 2024 event’s developer-focused sessions, as per a report. One such detail was about the company’s efforts to improve the battery life of the devices — particularly the standby battery life. The tech giant reportedly revealed that it has reworked the Doze mode in the Android system to ens...

Android 15 Beta 2 is now available for Google Pixel phones and select other smartphones. At Google I/O 2024, the company showed off the latest Android 15 beta version with new powerful security and privacy features such as Private Space, anti-theft protections, and improved threat detection, that are available to beta testers on recent Pixel phones...

Zomato unveiled its crowd-supported real-time weather monitoring infrastructure on Wednesday. Dubbed Weather Union, the company said the system is first-of-its-kind in India and the largest private infrastructure in its space in the country. Announcing the platform, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal said that its API will be made free-to-access for all in...

Private players in space technology will certainly help speed up the research in the field, Indian Space Research Organisation chairman S Somanath has said while interacting with space enthusiasts, through the official Instagram page of ISRO.

An uncrewed American lander that became the first private spaceship on the Moon sent its final image Thursday before its power banks depleted, the company that built it said.

A company from Texas is poised to attempt a feat that until now has only been accomplished by a handful of national space agencies, but could soon become commonplace for the private sector: landing on the Moon.

A US-based company attempting to be the first private entity to land a spacecraft on the Moon recently shared stunning images of Earth from space.

A private Houston-based company is set this week to lead a mission to the Moon which, if successful, will mark America's first lunar landing since the end of the Apollo era five decades ago.

Google's Private Space feature is reportedly in development for Android smartphones, that will allow users to securely hide apps on their Android smartphones in the future. Samsung has offered a similar feature — Secure Folder — since 2017. The upcoming addition of Private Space on Android will allow other phone makers to offer the same feature...

A Mumbai-based private aerospace company has supplied critical components to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for its upcoming Chandrayaan-3 mission. Liquid propulsion engines such as Vikas, CE20, and satellite thrusters for the lunar mission have been manufactured by Godrej Aerospace in its facility at Vikhroli in suburban Mumbai, a ...

Encouraged by high-profile successes elsewhere, India wants its private space companies to increase their share of the global launch market by fivefold within the next decade — an effort boosted by the personal support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At the end of 2022, Skyroot Aerospace, whose investors include Sherpalo Ventures and Singapore's...

Since the 1970s the island of Sriharikota has served as the country's Cape Canaveral, with the national space agency launching scores of spacecraft headed as far as the moon and Mars. But in November a new tenant appeared.

Japanese startup ispace lost contact Wednesday with its Hakuto-R lunar lander, the company said, suggesting its bid to be the first private firm to place a spacecraft on the Moon had failed.

Blue Origin, the private space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was awarded its first interplanetary NASA contract on Thursday to launch a mission next year to study the magnetic field around Mars, the USspace agency and company said.

Vikram S, the country's first private developed rocket, is set to launch between November 12 and 16, space startup Skyroot Aerospace said on Tuesday. With this mission, the firm is set to become the first private space company in the country to launch a rocket into space, bringing in a new era for the space sector which was opened up in 2020 to fac...