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 ...

A tugboat towing a barge was at least partially to blame for the Sunday night scrub of a planned Falcon 9 rocket launch. ... the 45th Space Wing monitors the area with sea surveillance radar.

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

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 ...

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 ...