Update: SpaceX launches 21 Northrop Grumman satellites for SDA's Tranche 1 network
Aviation Week reports the Transport Layer has reached 84 satellites but integration is lagging: only 4 of 21 Lockheed Martin satellites had been handed to go...
Aviation Week reports the Transport Layer has reached 84 satellites but integration is lagging: only 4 of 21 Lockheed Martin satellites had been handed to go...
KASA and KAIST confirm the five NEONSAT satellites transmitted their first Earth-observation images within a day of launch.
Arianespace sets Nov. 23 as Ariane 6's return-to-flight target, carrying 36 Amazon Leo satellites, after a reported fix to the turbopump anomaly.

Solafune and Tohoku University opened a joint research center to build an Earth observation satellite that analyzes imagery onboard.

The UK Space Agency picked ClearSpace over Astroscale and Starfish Space to build its first national debris removal mission.

JAXA tapped the Japanese startup to study a lunar rover navigation receiver and build a lunar-satellite signal-reception demo.
BlackSky and HEO extended their space-domain-awareness partnership into a seven-figure annual contract adding Gen-3 imagery.

Alaska Communications will resell Starlink to business customers across Alaska as a high-speed or backup internet option.
United has Starlink on over 635 aircraft, covering nearly half its daily flights, and launched a tool to check which ones.

India's defence ministry contracted NewSpace India Limited to build GSAT-7C, the air force's first dedicated comms satellite.

Oman's Durri Space ordered three Cailabs TILBA-OGS laser ground stations to build an optical downlink network by 2028.
Brussels is preparing speedy antitrust clearance for Project Bromo, an Airbus-Leonardo-Thales satellite venture meant to rival SpaceX.

Falcon 9 carried a classified Space Force payload to a polar orbit from Vandenberg on booster B1081's 28th flight.

ESA backed Intecs, Airbus and Creotech Geo to develop 5G-based rail positioning and optical-fibre aviation timing.

Engineers counted nine char-loss spots on Artemis II's heat shield, a tenfold drop from 103 on Artemis I, after a shorter reentry.
Rocket Lab's own SEC filing firms up the August 'may slip' guidance into a confirmed 2027 debut and names a propellant-dome manufacturing defect as the cause.
Ship 40 reached Starbase Oct. 7 after its 75-day recovery voyage and was rolled into a Megabay, where SpaceX says it will pull first-of-its-kind data from a...

Ukraine's defense ministry says Starlink/Starshield speeds exceed 400 km/h again after a week of throttling, crediting direct US talks.

Reflect Orbital bought two Skyroot Aerospace launches, one on Vikram-1 and one on the upgraded Vikram-1U, as rideshare capacity tightens.

In Orbit Aerospace swapped reentry vehicles for onboard autonomy software, with NASA and Space Force funding the shift.

Bengaluru's OXG Space raised Rs 17 crore led by Aum Ventures to build in-orbit edge computing for Earth-observation data.

Kerala's Genrobotics won an ISRO contract to build a high-precision boom arm for deploying and pointing satellite reflectors.
Seraphim says space startups raised a record $20.8 billion across 216 deals in Q3, led by launch and infrastructure bets.

Per Deutsche Telekom CEO Hottges: Musk 'has to build' 85,000 antennas like T-Mobile's before Starlink Mobile seriously competes.

LandSpace's Zhuque-2E rocket delivered eight more computing satellites for ADA Space's Three-Body constellation, taking it to 20.

Spain advanced €65.8 million in PAZ 2 radar-satellite financing to Hisdesat, lifting 2026's allocation to €245.6 million.
The Commission says Ukraine-GOVSATCOM talks are underway, with commercial capacity to bridge the gap until IRIS2 arrives in 2029.

Per Barclays: Tesla and SpaceX could merge before Tesla's Dec. 6 meeting, in an all-stock deal led by SpaceX.

Conibio Global collected 200+ suspected SpaceX Starship fragments on a Tamaulipas beach and handed them to Mexico's environmental agency.
Ars Technica traces the 11-foot cornfield object to the upper stage of a LandSpace Zhuque-2E rocket that reentered Sept. 15.
Per ESPI's Elisabeth Clemmons: reserving 2 GHz spectrum for EU firms isn't enough without a full European D2D supply chain.
Swadeshi Jagran Manch, the RSS's economic wing and ideologically aligned with Modi's BJP, urges the government to block Starlink outright on national-securit...
Varda confirms its W-8/W-9 capsules reached orbit on Transporter-18 and lays out a seven-mission 2027 cadence plan.
European Spaceflight reports the 2027 funding's ministry-by-ministry breakdown and a 2028 completion target for the pad.
Poland says German police detained two Turkish nationals at its request over the arson, and its special services minister said there is "no doubt" Russian in...
Germany has detained two more suspects, bringing the total to four, per RMF FM reporting cited by the Moscow Times.
UNN, citing RussianSpaceWeb tracking data, names two specific second-batch satellites forecast to reenter around Oct. 29 and Nov. 1.

SpaceX launched 27 more Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, with booster B1088 flying and landing for a 20th time.
ESA selected Planet's Sinergise unit to build a 12-month pilot that automates satellite-based disaster monitoring for Slovenia.
Amazon's Leo Pro terminal hit over 400 Mbps in an Army field test, the next step toward tactical soldier connectivity.

NASA's CRS-35 Dragon carried the final pair of Redwire's ISS solar arrays, completing the station's power upgrade.
The FAA will study SpaceX's plan to ramp up to 456 Starship launches and 912 landings a year at its Texas Starbase site.

Duncan Aviation placed a prepaid order for 40 Gogo Galileo HDX systems, Gogo's largest single MRO order this year.
Lyntris will build the RF payload for SES's share of the Space Force's anti-jam PTS-G satellite program.

Viasat ordered multiple All.Space Hydra Max multi-orbit satcom terminals, now certified on its global Ka-band network.

Czech defense group CSG bought a 9.5% equity stake in MDA Space for about $434 million, its first move into the space sector.

NASA finished stacking Artemis III's twin SLS boosters, the next step before a pad tanking test ahead of a June 2027 target.
A Polish deputy minister said US political and budgetary uncertainty complicates long-term Artemis commitments, per European Spaceflight.
Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu and former ISRO chairman G.

Planet, Microsoft's AI for Good Lab, and IHME built Populace, a continuously updated 40-meter global population density map.