On August 5, ICEYE said EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund, a fund established by the European Commission with European investors, co-led the round alongside General...
China's STAR.VISION launched Lampung-1 and Samarkand-2028, sovereign hyperspectral satellites built for Indonesia and Uzbekistan.
SpaceX launched three new Block 2 BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites for AST SpaceMobile from Cape Canaveral.
Portugal's Neuraspace secured an $18 million Series B and EU funding round for AI-driven space traffic management.
Per ESPI: Chinese orbital-computing ventures are moving to deployment while Europe still weighs the concept.
The NRO awarded Capella Space, ICEYE U.S. and Umbra new contracts to expand government use of commercial SAR imagery.
CEO Dave Limp says a main oxygen valve on one BE-4 engine caused the May 28 New Glenn pad explosion.
A fire in a TsNIIMash building basement, the facility that houses Russian ISS mission control, was extinguished with no injuries reported.
Redwire's Q2 2026 revenue rose 89.6% to a record $117.1 million as gross margin and backlog also hit highs.
Satellogic's Q2 2026 revenue rose 259% to $15.9 million, delivering its first positive operating income and adjusted EBITDA.
Synspective's ninth StriX satellite, launched in May, returned its first test radar image of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
CNES president François Jacq says a subscale ASTRE engine prototype will get its first hot-fire test in 2028.
The Chinese launch startup closed a pre-C funding round and began IPO coaching while pushing Gravity-2 toward a Q4 debut.
A spent Falcon 9 upper stage from a 2025 lunar-lander mission crashed into the Moon on August 5.
Payload's own Aug 4 write-up of the same FCC full-constellation broadcast authorization (Xona CEO Brian Manning quoted, additional technical detail: 350+ tra...
RussianSpaceWeb's updated tracking, citing U.S.
Kreios Space will fly its air-breathing electric propulsion system on a NanoAvionics satellite bus in 2027.
AE Industrial closed its $845 million majority buy of L3Harris's space propulsion unit, relaunched as Rocketdyne.
SpaceX will swap armored MRAPs for Tesla Cybertrucks as pad-emergency crew rescue vehicles, starting with Crew-13 in September.
Canada awarded Telesat a C$2.3 billion Arctic military satcom contract, expanding Lightspeed by 69 satellites to 225 total.
A new startup wants laser-linked MEO satellites to compete with subsea cables on long-haul data routes.
NOAA extended its evaluation of Spire's Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder data with a $3 million contract add-on.
Rocket Lab and STR split $615 million to build airborne-target-tracking satellites for the Space Force's SB-AMTI program.
Nine more GuoWang broadband satellites reached orbit on a Long March-8A, taking the constellation past 180 launched.
Germany's Space Agency at DLR funded LiveEO to study a foundation AI model spanning optical and radar Earth-observation imagery.
Viasat's Q1 FY2027 revenue held flat at $1.2 billion as both remaining ViaSat-3 satellites near service entry.
Northrop Grumman will convert HALO module technology into three Lunar Infrastructure Demo missions testing Moon Base survival systems.
On its first earnings call as a public company, SpaceX said it will use only Nvidia GPUs for its Starmind AI1 orbital compute satellites.
Royal Air Maroc and Starlink officially confirmed the deal: free Wi-Fi for loyalty members on 41 aircraft starting early 2027.
AST SpaceMobile began active satellite-to-phone service in Japan alongside Rakuten Mobile, its first commercial market outside the US.
Payload reports Jackal produced a validated mission plan within 30 minutes of tasking, then flew a 23-minute ingress and burn sequence to close to about 10 k...
ICEYE names a 15-year JPMorgan veteran to lead its UAE entity as it deepens government ties in the country.
The FCC authorized Xona to broadcast commercial navigation signals for its planned 250-satellite Pulsar constellation.
MaiaSpace posted a 37.5 million euro loss for 2025 that pushed shareholders' equity negative; ArianeGroup voted not to dissolve it.
SpaceX and Louisiana are close to a deal giving the company an 18-mile marshland stretch in Vermilion Parish for a new launch site.
ETL Systems buys Croatian software specialist Amphinicy to broaden its satellite ground-segment portfolio.
SpaceX dispatched a recovery team to retrieve the still-floating Ship 40 from the Indian Ocean, and mission data confirmed the splashdown was precise enough...
Rocket Factory Augsburg said July 28 that it found "an issue with the vehicle" during pressurization testing ahead of a planned hot-fire test at SaxaVord Spa...
EchoStar's satellite broadband unit files Chapter 11 after missing an August 1 debt deadline, without a pre-negotiated plan.
Hughes Network Systems, EchoStar's satellite broadband subsidiary, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 2 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, per Advanced Television. Hughes had $102 million in cash on hand against $1.5 billion in borrowings that matured August 1, and filed without a pre-negotiated restructuring plan. EchoStar's own SEC 8-K, filed the same day, discloses an Item 1.03 bankruptcy event.
SpaceNews identifies the pair as TJS-27A and TJS-27B, developed by CAST and SAST respectively; astronomer Jonathan McDowell notes their orbit is characterist...
The Space Force awarded K2 Space $22.9 million to build and test laser communications terminals on two satellites by 2028.
CSNO says a software-only in-orbit upgrade to BeiDou's 50 satellites improves positioning and timing accuracy.
K2 also says it has now surpassed $1 billion in signed commercial and government contracts, per Via Satellite.
Upgraded the lead to the Federal Register's official Report and Order text (FCC 26-46), published July 31 with the docket numbers and Sept 29, 2026 effective...
By July 30, a series of Hall-effect thruster burns had cut LINK's spin rate from about 9 degrees per second to about 4 degrees per second, per the company's...
Rocket Lab, Firefly, Redwire, Sierra Space, Viasat and York join legacy primes competing for NITE-STAR training-range task orders.
Spain's satellite operator signed the industrial contract for a replacement secure-comms satellite after SpainSat NG II's total loss.
A routine Starlink batch from Vandenberg reused a Falcon 9 booster for the 26th time.
The Air Force Research Laboratory added $11.7 million to Blue Origin's REGAL contract to study rocket-based cargo delivery.
NASA and SpaceX finished wind tunnel tests on a scale model of the Super Heavy V3 booster behind the Artemis III lander.