Update: ispace switches to Japan's H3 rocket for 2028 lunar lander mission
Upgrades the lead from Nikkei (mainstream) to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' own press release confirming the launch-services contract signing, and attaches Sp...
Upgrades the lead from Nikkei (mainstream) to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' own press release confirming the launch-services contract signing, and attaches Sp...
Upgrades the lead to CASC's own report of the Tianlian III-01 launch (first_party; matches the item's exact 7:50 p.m.
Upgrades the lead to the Federal Register's official publication of the proposed rule (Docket FAA-2026-8614, Notice No. 26-11), fetched via the Federal Regis...
Katalyst said the spacecraft had been in a multi-axis spin for 72 hours; NASA and Katalyst are attempting to use LINK's electric propulsion system to stop th...
True Anomaly said July 29 that after being tasked by Space Systems Command on July 14, its Jackal-0004 spacecraft carried out what the company called the fir...

A Falcon 9 carried the NRO's classified NROL-95 payload from Cape Canaveral, landing its booster back at the Cape.

A modified Long March-6 carried new communications test satellites into orbit from Taiyuan, per Xinhua and CASC.

K2 Space's new funding, led by Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ, more than doubles its valuation as it scales satellite production.

Rocket Lab will fly three more iQPS SAR satellites on Electron starting late 2027, its third contract with iQPS this year.

Scotland's government picked Planet, via reseller Computacenter, for a one-year, seven-figure satellite-monitoring deal.

ArianeGroup rehearsed a full cryogenic countdown for the Themis reusable-booster demonstrator, its first update in ten months.

Sophia Space and Caltech's new US patent covers a solar-powered, passively cooled modular tile design for space data centers.
LatConnect 60 unveiled a proprietary AI capability that fuses short-wave infrared satellite imagery with radar, signals intelligence, tracking data, and open...
Eutelsat detailed its MoU on July 28, per Via Satellite: the company will give Polish space companies access to its facilities to test and validate IRIS2 use...
Per SpaceNews, Northrop Grumman launched Katalyst Space Technologies' 425 kg Link spacecraft on a Pegasus XL rocket from Kwajalein Atoll on July 3, 2026, und...

ispace and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signed a launch contract putting ispace's next lunar lander on Japan's domestic H3 rocket in 2028.

A Long March-7A rocket carried China's Tianlian III-01 relay satellite into orbit from Wenchang, per Xinhua.

Kall Morris ran 172 capture trials of its REACCH gecko-gripper arms aboard the ISS across six sessions, per Payload.

Aalyria will build ESA's DTN network-operations center at Goonhilly, plugging deep-space links into LunaNet, per Payload.

Fortastra and Hadrian will jointly evaluate additive and precision manufacturing methods for Fortastra's satellite buses.

The Space Force ordered 18 Falcon 9 launches through 2027 for missile-tracking, targeting and comms satellites, worth $1.6B.

All Points Logistics will build a new satellite processing center at Vandenberg, the largest Space Force award of its kind to date.

MaiaSpace says ground testing made a suborbital hop unnecessary; Maia's debut now targets an orbital attempt in second-half 2027.

OHB Italia, Thales Alenia Space and Leonardo will build Italy's next hyperspectral satellite, tripling ground resolution to 10 meters.

SES will equip 60+ LATAM Airbus and Embraer aircraft with multi-orbit GEO/LEO inflight connectivity using a new low-profile antenna.
European Spaceflight reported July 27 that, asked why the award exceeds SMEX's roughly 50 million euro cost target, an ESA spokesperson said the MAGPIE contr...
On July 27, the FCC published the order setting gross incentive payments at approximately $5.6 billion for SES and $504 million for Eutelsat, per SatNews and...

The FAA formally published its proposal to waive 13 federal laws, including NEPA, for launch and reentry licensing.

Impulse Space detailed Electra, its first in-house electric propulsion system, built to complement its chemical thrusters.

Orbcomm's Skywave will embed Iridium's Short Burst Data satellite service into its heavy-equipment IoT terminals.

Outlier Space raised $7.35 million pre-seed to build a reusable microgravity return capsule, per Payload.

Synspective tasked StriX SAR satellites hours after Japan's July 28 Kumamoto quake, later measuring up to 1m of fault displacement.

EchoStar closed its $20.25 billion spectrum sale to AT&T, funding debt payoff across its satellite and wireless units.
On July 27, the FCC published the order setting gross incentive payments at approximately $5.6 billion for SES, $504 million for Eutelsat, and just under $20...
SpaceNews reports the Kodiak site will be Rocket Lab's fourth launch location alongside its existing pads in New Zealand and Virginia, supporting the Pentago...

Orbes unveiled its Exo-ORB inspection spacecraft and signed a letter of intent to fly it on Symphony Space's station.

Intel launched Starfire, a radiation-hardened system-on-chip built for onboard satellite AI and data processing.

SES Space & Defense will deliver always-on LEO Relay Services to Starlab's commercial space station via O3b mPOWER.

Sphinx Defense won a $287 million Space Force award for ESS mission planning software, per SpaceNews.

The FCC exempted SpaceX's Starlink routers from its foreign-router ban, granting conditional approval through February 2028.

ESA is soliciting feasibility studies to turn its Gateway-built Lunar Link payload into a standalone lunar comms satellite.
The Exploration Company closed a $450 million Series C, 50% above its $300 million July target, to fund Nyx and its Storm engine.
SpaceX flew Starship Flight 13 on July 24, after the July 16 T-0 abort and a further slip past the July 20 target, per SpaceNews and Spaceflight Now.
Eutelsat told Payload the filing is "part of our long-term planning for the evolution of our LEO constellation" and that its LEO investment needs are "fully...

ESA awarded ispace-Europe a 65 million euro Phase 2 contract to build and deliver its MAGPIE rover to the Moon's south pole.

Lockheed cut its Space profit outlook and backed a $500 million ULA loan as Vulcan's grounding drags on.

NASA and Blue Origin will hot-fire test New Glenn's second stage on the Apollo-era B-2 stand at Stennis starting this fall.

Lunar Outpost will fly an NVIDIA Jetson AI chip on its MAPP rover this year, with NVIDIA's Space-1 module on two later flights.

LatConnect 60 unveiled an AI system fusing its planned SWIR imagery with radar and other intelligence for defence buyers.

ATmoto's Gande-01, per Xinhua, is China's first commercial space debris monitoring satellite in a planned 120-satellite network.