MTG-I2 launched successfully Aug. 27 as scheduled; upgraded lead to ESA's own first-party report of the completed launch (previously Via Satellite reporting...
SpaceX urged the FCC to examine Iridium's history of anticompetitive filings as regulators review Rocket Lab's proposed Iridium acquisition.
The Indian in-space servicing startup raised a pre-Series A round to fund four planned in-orbit demonstration missions.
Swedish satellite operator Ovzon signed its first German partnerships to test its satcom platform with a government customer.
The UAE's TDRA granted Starlink Satellite Communications a 10-year license to provide satellite broadband nationwide.
Ukraine asked the ITU to bar Russia's Rassvet satellites from covering its territory in any frequency band.
ESA awarded Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and PLD Space a combined €543.6 million to fly alternatives to Ariane 6.
ICEYE is folding The Water Institute's FloodID predictive-flood platform and development team into its own products.
Astrum Space is merging with SPAC Black Spade Acquisition III at a roughly $1 billion valuation.
Kepler Communications will host NorthStar's optical space-domain-awareness sensors on its data-relay satellites.
A Long March 6C upper stage fragmented in orbit two days after launch, adding tens to hundreds of debris pieces to a low orbital shell.
AeroVironment will co-design and build three autonomous helicopters for NASA's SkyFall mission to Mars, targeting a November 2028 launch.
SpaceX is halving Starlink residential prices for people living near its new Starbase Louisiana spaceport site.
Per Payload, the site will include five launch complexes, each with two launch pads and a propellant farm, and is designed to self-sustain with propellant pr...
For national-security "space superiority" missions, the policy also requires the ability to launch within 48 hours and directs the Department of Transportati...
ICEYE opened ICEYE Korea under Eric Rhee and signed an MOU with Seoul National University on SAR research.
Zelensky awarded Elon Musk Ukraine's Order of Freedom for Starlink's role while pressing him to allow wider use over Russia.
Hughes Satellite Systems bondholders allege EchoStar stripped over $1.5 billion from the subsidiary before its Chapter 11 filing.
EarthDaily's wildfire AI model will support underwriting for an unnamed North American insurer's western US book.
City Labs, fresh off its first nuclear-powered satellite demo, plans a second flight testing a tritium heat source for lunar night survival.
NOAA's TMATE program awarded Spire, Muon Space, and Weather Stream a combined $46.5 million to build new microwave sounding instruments.
LeoLabs will deliver a modified Scout-S radar system for the Space Force under a $20.68 million prototype award.
OSC's acting TraCSS program manager says the space-traffic system remains in pilot mode and commercial SSA data purchases stay on hold.
RussianSpaceWeb's Anatoly Zak reported August 24 that three of the second batch's satellites have since abandoned their climb attempts, with orbits decaying...
Sandhoo said August 24 at the Small Satellite Conference that on-orbit checkouts for this second York-built plane are progressing two to three times faster t...
Elon Musk said August 22 on X that once Starship is flying reliably several times a week, "it makes sense to shift super scarce SpaceX engineering and produc...
OrbitAID plans a chaser-and-target mission in Q1 2027 to prove its full in-space refueling sequence, per Payload.
SpaceX confirms $100 billion Starbase Louisiana spaceport
Lonestar hired Polish startup Ares Shield to defend its orbital data-center satellites, in a deal worth up to $6 million.
Australian startup Neumann Space plans to license The Aerospace Corporation's box-less Disksat satellite architecture.
Redwire is investing in next-generation phased array antennas for LEO/MEO/GEO communications, aimed at military connectivity.
EUMETSAT renewed and expanded its Spire Global radio-occultation weather-data contract to 4 million euros for one year.
ESA's Draco satellite, built to record its own atmospheric breakup, passed its Critical Design Review ahead of a 2027 launch.
The booster's 100th Falcon 9 launch of 2026 was also the last planned Falcon 9 Starlink mission from Florida, per SpaceX.
Redwire will build Edge Aerospace's space-qualified data processing units in Massachusetts under a new US manufacturing license.
CesiumAstro's third defense acquisition of 2026 adds 1Aardvark's mission software for contested, disconnected environments.
TrustPoint and Hexagon's NovAtel showed C-band positioning signals working through jamming under a Navy SBIR contract.
Impulse Space says demand for its Caravan GEO rideshare missions has booked out through 2028.
ICEYE opens a Dutch subsidiary and R&D hub tied to its existing SAR intelligence work for the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force.
GalaxySpace built, launched, and delivered a full satellite package to Thailand's GISTDA, a first for a Chinese commercial space firm.
Scotland's HIE bought the liquidated Sutherland Spaceport's assets, keeping the UK launch site's future open after Orbex's collapse.
SpaceX's FAA comment says it alone expects 10,000 launches a year, with outdated air traffic control the real bottleneck.
French startup ArcSpace closed a 2 million euro seed round to fund a 2027 in-orbit welding demonstration.
In a follow-up Aug. 24, an ESA spokesperson told European Spaceflight that Ariane 64 Block 2, featuring the P160C boosters and Vulcain Aft Bay evolution, is...
LandSpace was targeting a reflight of the recovered booster within six months, a company representative told SpaceNews.
On Aug. 24, the semi-submersible heavy-lift carrier Forte docked at Christmas Island's Flying Fish Cove and began loading Ship 40 directly from the water for...
SpaceX disclosed in a June 16 SEC 8-K that it agreed to acquire Anysphere, the developer of the AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock merger implying a $60....
Kongsberg will double its N3X dark-vessel-tracking constellation to six satellites in early 2027 for the Norwegian Armed Forces.
Iranian police say they arrested 163 people and seized 997 unauthorized Starlink terminals between March and July 2026.
Brooklyn startup Beyond Reach Labs unveiled Flarewing, a three-size deployable solar array system it plans to start qualifying by year end.