Kazakhstan plans nine-satellite international EO constellation by 2030
Kazakhstan plans a nine-satellite EO constellation with Mongolia, Congo and Nigeria by 2030, expandable to 14 satellites.
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Boeing delivers final three O3b mPower satellites to SES
Boeing has delivered the last three satellites needed to complete SES's 13-satellite O3b mPower constellation.
Chang Guang completes 19-satellite 3D mapping constellation
Chang Guang Satellite says its new 19-satellite fleet is the world's largest dedicated 3D-mapping constellation.
Bureau 1440 launches second batch of Rassvet broadband satellites
Per RussianSpaceWeb: Bureau 1440 launched a second 16-satellite Rassvet batch; only 9 of the 16 have begun raising orbit as of early August.
Kongsberg to double N3X maritime surveillance constellation in 2027
Kongsberg will double its N3X dark-vessel-tracking constellation to six satellites in early 2027 for the Norwegian Armed Forces.
Kepler reaches commercial operations with optical data relay network
Kepler says its 33-satellite optical relay constellation is now delivering commercial services worldwide, per a company release.
Airtel launches Africa's first commercial Starlink satellite-to-mobile service
Airtel Africa commercially deployed Starlink's satellite-to-mobile service in the DRC, the first such commercial launch on the continent.
Korea clears first mass-produced satellite cluster for October launch
KASA completed a pre-shipment review of the first five NEONSAT satellites, Korea's first mass-produced Earth observation constellation.
Orbitworks ships Altair-1, UAE's first AI-enabled EO satellite, for October launch
Orbitworks' first Altair satellite left Dubai for the US ahead of an October launch, the start of a planned 10-satellite constellation.
Pixxel-led Allied Orbits wins deal to build India's private EO constellation
Pixxel-led Allied Orbits will build India's first fully privately owned national EO constellation, per a government Lok Sabha reply.
SES commits up to €1.35 billion to build IRIS2 MEO satellites
SES cleared a key IRIS² milestone and confirmed up to €1.35 billion to build 18 medium-orbit satellites for the EU program.
STAR.VISION launches hyperspectral satellites for Indonesia and Uzbekistan
China's STAR.VISION launched Lampung-1 and Samarkand-2028, sovereign hyperspectral satellites built for Indonesia and Uzbekistan.
AST SpaceMobile launches BlueBird 11-13 on Falcon 9 for direct-to-cell network
SpaceX launched three new Block 2 BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites for AST SpaceMobile from Cape Canaveral.
China completes in-orbit upgrade of BeiDou navigation satellites
CSNO says a software-only in-orbit upgrade to BeiDou's 50 satellites improves positioning and timing accuracy.
Poland boosts IRIS2 satellite contribution to 656 million euros
Poland more than doubled its IRIS2 contribution to 656.3 million euros; Eutelsat has now detailed its side of the MoU.
ATmoto launches first satellite of China's Gande debris-tracking constellation
ATmoto's Gande-01, per Xinhua, is China's first commercial space debris monitoring satellite in a planned 120-satellite network.
Belgium to build Galo military satellite constellation by 2030
Belgium's defence ministry will spend over 200 million euros on its own low-Earth-orbit imaging constellation.
BRIN targets January 2027 launch for Indonesia's first sovereign EO satellite
Indonesia's BRIN said its domestically built NEO-1 Earth observation satellite is targeted to launch in January 2027.
ICEYE launches four satellites on Transporter-17, debuts Gen4 SAR model
ICEYE says its SAR constellation now stands at 76 satellites after a four-satellite Transporter-17 launch.
Apolink makes first contact with its relay demo satellite
Per SpaceNews, Apolink's IPoS-TDsM cubesat launched on Transporter-17 and is now relaying signals on an experimental FCC S-band license.
Muon Space deploys first operational FireSat wildfire-detection satellites
Muon Space says it deployed the first three operational FireSat satellites for the Earth Fire Alliance's wildfire-detection constellation.
Unseenlabs launches first satellite of its second-generation RF fleet
Unseenlabs says it launched BRO-31, the first satellite of a heavier, more capable second-generation RF-detection fleet.
Open Cosmos launches first satellites for Balearic Islands, Greece
Open Cosmos launched Posidonia, the Balearic Islands' first satellite, and Hyperion GR-1, the first of a planned Greek EO constellation.
Axelspace launches seven GRUS-3 Earth observation satellites
Axelspace's seven next-generation GRUS-3 microsatellites reached orbit and returned first signals on Transporter-17.
KAI launches CAS500-4, South Korea's first agriculture and forestry satellite
KAI launched CAS500-4, South Korea's first satellite dedicated to agriculture and forestry monitoring.
Italy brings IRIDE Earth observation service online
Italy's IRIDE Earth observation marketplace went live July 1 for government users, with commercial access planned later.
SpaceX names its orbital AI compute megaconstellation Starmind
Per Space.com: the planned AI satellite network gets a name, at a scale about 100 times today's Starlink.
Reliance Jio says it is evaluating a sovereign LEO broadband constellation
The RIL AGM statement commits to evaluating sovereign LEO capability; reported figures of ~1,600 satellites are unconfirmed.
AST SpaceMobile puts BlueBirds 8, 9 and 10 in orbit on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral
Three Block 2 direct-to-cell satellites launched successfully, per AST's release; the prior BlueBird 7 was lost in May.
Space42 brings Foresight-3, -4 and -5 into full operation, growing its SAR fleet to five
The UAE operator says three more ICEYE-built SAR satellites are fully operational, taking the Foresight constellation to five.