Update: SpaceX picks Qualcomm to build Starlink Mobile's nationwide 5G network
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon tells investors the SpaceX deal's revenue lands mostly in fiscal 2028, calling it the start of a relationship with "tremendous po...
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon tells investors the SpaceX deal's revenue lands mostly in fiscal 2028, calling it the start of a relationship with "tremendous po...
NASA confirms Swift reentered over Indonesia's North Sumatra region at 7:39 a.m.
ISRO confirms NVS-03 completed four orbit-raising maneuvers and reached its final geosynchronous slot in normal health.
Reuters reports a merger would give Musk voting control via SpaceX's existing supervoting shares without clearing any Tesla pay-plan milestone, and a far sma...
Blue Origin's own CEO tells staff New Glenn's return to flight has slipped from end-of-2026 into January 2027, per the FT and Reuters.

Redwire's $20 million DARPA Otter award funds a subscale SabreSat flight test ahead of a full air-breathing VLEO demo.
Per Eutelsat chair Sunil Mittal: countries can't rely on another nation for satellite connectivity, so need their own networks.
BlackSky's Q3 2026 revenue rose 118% year over year to a record $42.8 million, and the company swung to net income.

Hyderabad's Cosmoserve Space raised $6 million and opened Base 1, which it calls India's first private debris-removal facility.

Orca Aerospace will supply autonomous-navigation software for Orbital's satellite data-center fleet in a deal worth up to $20 million.

United will let passengers log into Spotify accounts and stream their own libraries on seatback screens aboard its Starlink-equipped planes.
Chinese startup Yilong Aerospace aims to fly its 20-tonne-to-LEO YL-1 kerolox rocket by end of 2027, per SpaceNews's Andrew Jones.
China launched three Yaogan 51 series reconnaissance satellites on a Long March 2C rocket from Xichang, per Launch Library tracking data.

Planet's new AI App lets users search a decade of its satellite archive in plain English, free at ai.planet.com.
Blue Origin adds a third stage and a new booster engine to push New Glenn payloads to GEO, cislunar space, and beyond.
A slower-than-planned pad rebuild pushes Blue Origin's next New Glenn launch about 10 days past its year-end target.
The Janus Henderson-led round funds CesiumAstro's 737-satellite Synchronicity network after a successful first demo satellite.
SES shares rose nearly 12% after Q3 revenue of €870 million topped estimates and total backlog hit a record €10 billion.
The FAA unveiled three proposed rules and a technical-corrections final rule aimed at speeding up commercial launch and reentry licensing.
A Ukrainian diplomat says Kyiv's Starshield deal with Washington expires by mid-2027 and talks on a replacement are just starting.

Per Höttges: SpaceX would need years and roughly $200 billion to build a US network able to compete with incumbent carriers.
PLD Space completes an explosive flight-termination-system test for Miura 5, a regulatory-approval milestone ahead of the rocket's planned first half of 2027...
T-Mobile's own SEC filing confirms it received $2.9 billion cash plus $690 million in spectrum for the Grain sale, is entitled to 50% of Grain's further gain...

SpaceX taps Qualcomm's Dragonwing radios to build Starlink Mobile's nationwide US 5G network, with rollout starting in 2027.

Orbital Matter and EnduroSat plan a 2028 mission to 3D-print support booms in orbit for a 5 kilowatt solar array.

Ubotica says its CogniSAT-6 satellite spotted a cruise ship, then scheduled its own follow-up image two days later with no ground input.

NASA picked three companies to develop commercial Ka-band relay concepts succeeding its aging TDRS fleet.

SES and partners sent video messages over an optical ground-to-space link using its meoSphere pathfinder payload.

ULA is taking over fairing production from longtime supplier Beyond Gravity to cut costs and vertically integrate.
Redwire's Q3 revenue rose 5.4% to $109 million as backlog grew nearly 75% year over year.

ESA tapped OHB to build two Sentinel-3 Next Generation Topography radar-altimetry satellites, with an option for a third.

The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital will match LeoLabs' own $150 million, funding $300 million in radar expansion.
KT SAT, ST Engineering iDirect, Waldo and Intellian will build a Ku- and Ka-band ground system for South Korea's maritime network.
United's Starlink fleet grows to 671 aircraft as the airline deploys defensive AI and works toward a cockpit interface, per its CISO.
Globalstar files its own FCC comment echoing SpaceX's and Ligado's concerns about the Rocket Lab-Iridium deal, while Rocket Lab and Iridium ask the FCC to di...

Sceye signed a five-year deal to fly a fleet of at least 40 stratospheric platforms for SoftBank over Japan.

Vienna-based Tumbleweed closed a €6.9 million seed round to build Oasis Beta, its own atmospheric reentry vehicle.

MDA Space picked Airbus's passive DETUMBLER device for its Aurora LEO constellation, the first large commercial passive-detumbling order.
NASA's JPL picked Intuitive Machines to build the spacecraft platform for FALCON-RADAR, a cloud-profiling radar mission targeted for 2029.
Verizon partner Connected Solutions Group can now sell and install Starlink for US businesses.

An ITU filing shows Russia quietly designing a Rassvet-4 satellite after early losses in its Rassvet broadband constellation.

Simera Sense and Spacemanic are combining a camera, a CubeSat bus and a deployer into one ready-to-fly dual-use imaging package.

EarthDaily and Panama's Geosolutions Consulting signed a deal to resell EarthDaily data across six Central American countries.

CAS Space's Lijian-2 rocket flew for the second time, delivering the 17th batch of Qianfan/Spacesail broadband satellites, per Xinhua.

EQT-backed SatPort buys Speedcast's teleport network of 12 sites in 11 countries, deal terms undisclosed.
Homeowners near Starbase oppose SpaceX's bid to drop noneconomic damages in a sonic-boom property suit.

A satellite bus fault knocked out Otter's radio a month after launch, cutting short a $15 million NASA satellite-inspection demo.
ISRO names a March-April 2027 target for Kulasekarapattinam's first rocket launch.
SpaceX is negotiating to buy or lease Boost Mobile's network from EchoStar for Starlink Mobile, per the Washington Post.

Northwood Space closed a $375M Series C less than nine months after its $100M Series B, valuing the ground-network startup at $2 billion.