The 800-pound, cube-shape Space Drone is essentially an orbital tugboat. The spacecraft features a docking system and a small motor.

The idea of a space tug is not new. A European company tried to build a case for its "orbital life extension vehicle" during the early 2000s. Orbital Recovery planned to add life to satellites ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The world's first space tugboat–the “Jules Verne” Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)–is scheduled for launch next month aboard the Ariane 5 launch vehicle at the European Space Agency ...

Designed to be a space “tugboat” for interplanetary payloads, the company states that it could chop travel time between planets by more than half.

Designed to be a space “tugboat” for interplanetary payloads, the company states that it could chop travel time between planets by more than half.

Northrop Grumman has a space tug. So do Rocket Lab and Firefly Aerospace. Soon, Blue Origin will have one, too. All of a sudden, a lot of space companies are finding the market for in-orbit ...

Impulse Space, a space technology startup developing orbital transfer vehicles commonly known as "space tugs," has raised $300 million in a late-stage funding round led by Linse Capital, bringing ...