PLD Space completes an explosive flight-termination-system test for Miura 5, a regulatory-approval milestone ahead of the rocket's planned first half of 2027...
ESA tapped OHB to build two Sentinel-3 Next Generation Topography radar-altimetry satellites, with an option for a third.
Vienna-based Tumbleweed closed a €6.9 million seed round to build Oasis Beta, its own atmospheric reentry vehicle.
MDA Space picked Airbus's passive DETUMBLER device for its Aurora LEO constellation, the first large commercial passive-detumbling order.
Simera Sense and Spacemanic are combining a camera, a CubeSat bus and a deployer into one ready-to-fly dual-use imaging package.
The Swiss startup, pivoting from rocket-engine tests, unveiled a high-delta-V orbital tug and a lunar lander on the same design.
ESA's BEST 2 call asks ArianeGroup, MaiaSpace and Isar Aerospace to fly reusable booster demonstrators.
Hydrosat's new Nyktòs MWIR line targets tactical ISR, paired with a planned European facility for sovereign customers.
ESA's Josef Aschbacher is in the UAE pursuing a framework space agreement as Europe looks to cut its reliance on the US.
Canada and the EU issued a joint statement the same day outlining plans to explore wider Canadian participation in IRIS2, per European Spaceflight.
Finnish satellite maker ReOrbit proposes building Australia a sovereign, government-owned Starlink rival.
MDA Space will supply digital antennas for 66 EU IRIS2 satellites in a deal worth over 100 million Canadian dollars.
Lithuanian prosecutors named the two suspects held in Germany, a Turkish-German and a Serbian-German man in their twenties, on terrorism charges carrying up...
Turkish police detained 85 people in raids on the Daltonlar criminal network linked to the Poland sabotage suspects, though Turkey's own statement does not t...
Eutelsat's backlog jumped to 12.1 billion euros as IRIS2 entered construction, adding 8.9 billion euros in backlog.
CNES began ground qualification testing for its Callisto reusable rocket demonstrator at French Guiana's former Diamant launch pad.
EIB and Deutsche Bank will channel €560M to European space firms, announced at ESA's Munich investor forum.
Thales Alenia Space and Airbus each win contracts for two more Galileo Second Generation satellites, growing the fleet to 16.
Astroscale says a protector spacecraft could launch within three years, pitching a pan-European orbital-defense fleet.
Indra Space signed two ESA contracts to build next-generation Galileo ground sensor and uplink stations.
ESA signed NAVISP contracts with three Norwegian firms to build tools for navigating when GNSS signals are jammed.
Flexell Space established a French subsidiary in Paris to support contract talks with European solar-cell customers, per SpaceNews.
Astroscale will build, launch and operate a spacecraft for the UK's Project LEDA to study orbital rendezvous threats.
OVHcloud's own release says the Digital EO platform can extend beyond its initial three countries to Canada, an ESA Council member.
European Spaceflight corrected its own report: the Vulcain Aft Bay redesign cut 880 kg, beating Airbus's 800 kg target, not falling short of it as first repo...
ESA says it isn't sure its Themis reusable-rocket demonstrator will complete its first hop test before the end of 2026.
Australia counter-proposed ESA's offer to fly astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg to the ISS on a chartered SpaceX Crew Dragon.
Scanway and Pixxel signed an MoU to co-develop optical payloads, targeting 50cm imaging from LEO by 2028.
ICEYE and Nokia signed a Letter of Intent with Ukraine's defence ministry to build sovereign satcom Kyiv would control.
The companies plan to pair EnduroSat's satellite manufacturing with Redwire's power systems for European VLEO, data center and PNT missions.
Corrected: the redesigned structure cut 880 kg, beating Airbus's 800 kg target; an earlier figure covered only the shipped hardware.
CGI will keep providing technical support for the UK MoD's PICASSO geospatial intelligence program under a new contract.
A parafoil failure destroyed ESA's full-scale Space Rider drop-test model, pushing first flight from Q1 to Q2 2028.
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone sign a letter of intent to jointly bid for European 2 GHz satellite spectrum.
PLD Space starts system-level tests on Miura 5's second stage and now targets a debut flight in the first half of 2027.
OHB will lead ESA studies for OASIS, a shared power, communications and data-storage platform for the lunar surface.
Lithuania foiled an overnight arson attempt on a Starlink equipment facility, the third such sabotage bid in Europe since September.
US ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder warns of "devastating" retaliation if Brussels reserves 2 GHz satellite spectrum for European firms.
German startup RATLOG built and hot-fired a 90%-fewer-parts rocket engine in four months, joining YC's fall batch.
UKSA plans to award a split, up to £30 million contract for a Southern-Hemisphere radar that tracks LEO debris, per European Spaceflight.
Per European Spaceflight: 71 French MPs added a symbolic €1 VORTEX line to France's 2027 budget to press the government for clarity.
ESA's MetOp-SG-B1 weather satellite reached French Guiana by ship on Oct. 16, ahead of a planned year-end Ariane 6 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.
The UK Space Agency picked ClearSpace over Astroscale and Starfish Space to build its first national debris removal mission.
Brussels is preparing speedy antitrust clearance for Project Bromo, an Airbus-Leonardo-Thales satellite venture meant to rival SpaceX.
ESA backed Intecs, Airbus and Creotech Geo to develop 5G-based rail positioning and optical-fibre aviation timing.
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 ESPI's Elisabeth Clemmons: reserving 2 GHz spectrum for EU firms isn't enough without a full European D2D supply chain.
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.
ESA selected Planet's Sinergise unit to build a 12-month pilot that automates satellite-based disaster monitoring for Slovenia.
Czech defense group CSG bought a 9.5% equity stake in MDA Space for about $434 million, its first move into the space sector.
A Polish deputy minister said US political and budgetary uncertainty complicates long-term Artemis commitments, per European Spaceflight.
Per Reuters: Maj. Gen. Michael Traut says Russia's shadowing of ICEYE's satellite shows tactics that could hit Starlink.
Two German teenagers are accused of torching Starlink antennas at a Bulgarian teleport near Sofia on Oct. 9.
Two weeks after launch, ESA's Sentinel-3C delivered its first ocean-colour and radar-altimeter data.
KLM says free, unlimited Starlink Wi-Fi will reach all cabins on intercontinental flights from mid-2027.
The EU awarded SuperSharp's THEOSCOPE consortium a €4 million Horizon grant for a thermal-imaging satellite.
The Estonian startup will use the seed round to scale production of its Ermes space laser terminal.
NASA awarded L3Harris a contract to build all-glass telescopes for ESA's LISA gravitational-wave observatory.
Astrolight established its first autonomous space-to-ground optical link, reaching 1 Gbps within a week of first light.
ASI is consulting industry and researchers on a proposed orbital platform that would generate controlled artificial gravity.
EU SST and the US TraCSS found their conjunction-warning feeds differ sharply in volume, per a joint study presented at AMOS 2026.
ESA selected Hungarian smallsat maker C3S to design a 50-150kg satellite platform built for constellations of more than 100 spacecraft.
The European Commission pushed the SALTO reusable-launcher project's deadline to Dec. 31, 2026, as Themis's first hop test slips again.
ESA signed an expanded memorandum with Vast at IAC 2026 to study European use of Vast's Haven station after the ISS retires.
Aschbacher proposed a 10-year, 10 billion euro plan for Europe to launch its own astronauts without relying on NASA or SpaceX.
Skyrora pushed back its first orbital launch target from Q4 2026 to 2030, citing limited pad access and still-developing UK spaceport rules.
Germany, France and five other EU states want military space capabilities kept under national, not EU, control.
Portugal's Omnidea bought Orbex's UK manufacturing assets and IP, planning to revive Orbex's Prime launcher as PrimeNEO.
Airbus finished the first batch of a 669-satellite OneWeb renewal at its new Toulouse line, Eutelsat said.
Sateliot deployed five more 5G NTN IoT satellites on a SpaceX rideshare, bringing its constellation to eleven.
London startup Foundational raised £8.2 million ($10.8M) pre-seed to automate satellite laser ranging at scale.
ICEYE and Nokia will jointly build sovereign LEO satellite-communications systems that let governments own and control their own network.
The final eight Eaglet II satellites reached orbit Oct. 1, completing Italy's 24-satellite IRIDE sub-constellation in under a year.
Rheinmetall and Argotec launched their first jointly built satellite, designed to detect ground-based signs of emerging airborne threats.
Creotech's final three MikroGlob satellites launched on Transporter-18, completing Poland's four-satellite military EO fleet.
Unseenlabs flew a Gen 1 and a Gen 2 RF-detection satellite together for the first time, bringing its constellation to 25 spacecraft.
Italian startup NaviGate ran its orbit-determination software directly on a D-Orbit satellite's onboard computer.
Norway plans to invest almost €60 million to build and own a second orbital launch pad at Andøya Spaceport, leasing it to Andøya Space.
Per Space Intel Report, the US ambassador to the EU warned EU Space Act rules could burden American providers but not Chinese rivals.
ArianeGroup and SSC Space ran a second cryogenic countdown rehearsal of Europe's Themis reusable-rocket demonstrator at Esrange.
ESA awarded OVHcloud and CGI a 30-month contract to build cloud infrastructure for Europe's Earth observation data, per Reuters.
The Council widened its Space Threat Response Architecture to cover threats against any member state's space assets.
EU states endorsed a joint space-defense project the Commission says could draw up to EUR24 billion by 2034.
Investigators later found a bottle of flammable liquid near the burned distribution cabinet, a discovery that may indicate a homemade incendiary device, per...
DLR finished testing Callisto's nose cone as the joint CNES-DLR-JAXA reusable-rocket demonstrator's first hop test slips to 2027.
ESA narrowed its 12th Earth Explorer science satellite mission down to three concepts advancing to the next development phase.
ICEYE CEO and co-founder Rafal Modrzewski said, per Via Satellite, "Europe cannot defend what it cannot see," calling the study "the first step toward a fede...
Poland says fire at Exatel-Starlink ground station was likely sabotage
GomSpace and partners will study a future Arctic satellite constellation for secure maritime communication under an ESA-funded contract.
SSC Space and Saab agreed to explore combining SSC's ground and launch infrastructure with Saab's defense systems for Sweden.
CNES wants three automated tracking turrets to replace aging optical systems watching Ariane and Vega launches from French Guiana.
ESA extended its Boost co-funding to RFA by 2.7 million euros to prepare SaxaVord test infrastructure ahead of RFA One's first launches.
Ramses asteroid mission's core module was switched on for the first time, starting integrated functional testing.
Eutelsat and Portuguese telecom MEO signed a deal to integrate Eutelsat's OneWeb LEO services into MEO's connectivity offering.
Belgium's Space Applications Services secured a ride for its LUVMI-M rover aboard a Blue Origin Blue Moon Mark 1 lander, on track for 2029.
EU commissioner Kubilius says government demand needs 14 Ariane 6 launches a year by 2031, above ArianeGroup's planned output.
SaxaVord scrapped its shared suborbital launch rail; HyImpulse will bring its own for its second SR75 flight, per European Spaceflight.
Planet opened its Berlin satellite factory, with Germany's economy minister attending; Pelican production starts this autumn.
ESA is funding the next phase of ClearSpace's Phoenix spacecraft, which would dock with aging GEO satellites and take over their propulsion.
LMT Group and Novaspace will develop a concept for a Latvian satellite-comms innovation hub, modeled on ESA's 5G/6G NTN Hub.
ESA has since confirmed it is aware of the delays: "ESA is aware of the delays," an agency spokesperson told European Spaceflight, though ESA declined to com...
SSC Space will provide tracking, data reception, and launch support for Airbus' higher-resolution Pléiades Neo Next satellites.
ESA awarded two contracts, one to a consortium led by ICEYE called ARISE (with Indra Space, Rheinmetall, HISDESAT, Starion, T-Systems, SafranAI, Rheinmetall...
ESA signed 18 consolidation contracts worth a combined €20 million, bringing together nearly 80 companies to study new secure and resilient connectivity serv...
A turbopump issue found in August will hold Arianespace to five or six Ariane 6 missions this year, short of its planned eight.
ESA's Investor Forum unveiled a Space Debt Catalogue and pointed to an EIB lending facility already financing Italy's space supply chain.
ESA awarded two parallel architecture-study contracts for the EU's future Earth Observation Governmental Service.
ESA signed 18 consolidation contracts worth €20 million, covering nearly 80 companies, to study IRIS2's low-LEO layer.
Planet says a new Berlin manufacturing facility opening this fall will double its capacity to build Pelican satellites.
Orange and Telesat commissioned the first European ground gateway for the Telesat Lightspeed constellation.
Simera Sense and IDOM partnered to build the optics for Simera Sense's next-generation MultiScape350 EO imager.
Estonia's CybExer will lead a 10-company consortium building a capability to test IRIS2's security against disruption and cyberattack.
SEOPS signs a multi-launch deal for five dedicated Spectrum flights between 2028 and 2030.
The Bulgarian satellite manufacturer's second major raise in under a year funds new US and European manufacturing capacity.
Five Galileo satellites broadcast an encrypted test signal that let a receiver compute a spoof-resistant position fix.
ESA recognized the three space companies at Industry Space Days 2026 for program delivery and innovation.
L3Harris has started building the first satellites for Xoople's AI-focused Earth-observation constellation, targeting first launch in 2028.
Vega-C's eighth flight carried Copernicus Sentinel-3C and the FLEX vegetation mission into orbit from French Guiana.
SES will use Elveo's D2D tech for European mobile roaming and the two will build LEO D2D satellites in Europe.
Planet's own release: Germany's BKG gets exclusive dedicated satellite tasking access under a deal worth up to €25 million over five years.
HawkEye 360 established its first European subsidiary in Luxembourg and signed a sovereign RF-intelligence MoU with Leonardo.
NASA's Isaacman says Italy committed over $5 billion to a lunar habitat, securing two Italian astronauts Moon-surface seats.
French launch startup Sirius Space Services hot-fired its fully integrated methalox STAR-1 engine for the first time.
PGZ and ICEYE signed a letter of intent for a Polish-built satellite system Prime Minister Tusk called a step toward "a Polish Starlink."
ESA confirmed a 760 million euro ALADDIN Phase 2 contract for Exploration Company's Nyx ISS cargo missions.
Per Reuters (FOIA): UK defence ministry has spent almost $40 million on SpaceX's Starlink and Starshield satellite services.
Per Tribune India: Safran Space signed a 5 million-euro-plus deal to supply India's 52-satellite SBS-III surveillance constellation.
Per European Spaceflight: Eutelsat awarded 5.4 billion euros in IRIS2 deals and separately ordered 229 more OneWeb refresh satellites.
France's U-Space and Japan's Tenchijin signed an MoU to build an infrared Earth observation system, per 01net.it.
Per Aviation Week: Finland's Stubb urged Musk at the Paris summit to loosen Starlink limits for Ukraine against Russia.
NASA is unlikely to deliver the VenSAR radar it committed to ESA's EnVision Venus orbiter, per Ars Technica; ESA says it's pressing ahead.
ESA signed on Greece's behalf for Vast to fly flight surgeon Adrianos Golemis to the ISS in 2027 as the country's first astronaut.
Avio finished integrating its FD1 methalox demonstrator ahead of ground testing for a future Sardinia test flight.
Eutelsat selected Arianespace for two dedicated Ariane 64 launches in 2027 and 2028 to renew and expand its OneWeb LEO constellation.
CNES selects Exotrail to prime a sovereign satellite-deorbiting demonstration with Astroscale France and Eutelsat, targeting 2029-2030.
Per Avio CEO Giulio Ranzo: SpaceX's rideshare pullback is sending smallsat customers to European providers.
ESA and ISRO renewed their cooperation agreement through 2032 and added space weather and human exploration to its scope.
European Spaceflight's own read of the strategy document, published September 9, said the UK is relying on "Germany and other allies" for responsive launch a...
Firefly's own release (first_party) confirms the companies signed a contract for two specific Alpha launches, upgrading the original June 30 SpaceNews trade...
Eutelsat will use Infinite Orbits' Endurance servicer to add roughly five years of life to an aging GEO satellite.
BlackSky Gen-3 satellites will image for a $1 billion, 50-satellite AI-enabled constellation unveiled at the Paris Space Summit.
ICEYE and Arianespace agreed to explore launching ICEYE's SAR satellites on Ariane 6 for European government missions.
Amazon Leo expanded its Arianespace launch order from 18 to 24 Ariane 64 missions running through 2031.
SpaceX and Blue Origin skipped the Paris space summit after the White House urged US firms to stay away, per Fortune.
iQPS booked MaiaSpace to launch a series of its QPS-SAR satellites from 2029, MaiaSpace's first long-term Asia-Pacific customer.
Eutelsat and Skynopy signed a partnership to open Eutelsat's ground stations to Earth observation and orbital data center customers.
The $300M-target 'in talks' round (July 26) closed at $450M, 50% above target, with a named investor syndicate and a CEO quote; upgrading the lead from infor...
The UK government pledged £30 million toward SaxaVord's launchpad buildout, part of a £60 million public-private package.
ESA opened a tender for a pilot plant to produce Europe's own americium-241 spacecraft heaters, ending reliance on outside suppliers.
Isar's chief commercial officer Stella Guillen told CNBC on September 7 that the company's order pipeline is now worth more than 10 billion euros, though the...
Eutelsat and Tusass launched an EU- and Denmark-funded project extending OneWeb LEO connectivity to remote Greenland communities.
Isar says it already has five more rockets in production, is targeting roughly 40 launches a year long-term, and plans a second Spectrum launch site in Nova...
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit from Norway, the first orbital-class launch from Western Europe.
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket lifted off from Andoya Spaceport in Norway on its second flight, carrying five cubesats and one ESA-sponsored experiment, and reached orbit roughly seven minutes after liftoff, per NRK and Aftenposten. The rocket's March 2025 debut failed 30 seconds after launch, and five subsequent launch attempts this year were scrubbed for technical and weather reasons before Saturday's flight. Isar Aerospace itself reported the second stage achieved a preliminary 180 x 500 km orbit, per SpaceNews reporter Jeff Foust. Isar's chief commercial officer Stella Guillen told CNBC on September 7 that the company's order pipeline is now worth more than 10 billion euros, though the company has not said how much of that is signed.
Per ASD Eurospace President Marco Fuchs: Europe needs "strong and determined institutional customers" to anchor a stable space market.
Sparkle and Hellas Sat extended quantum-safe encryption over a live satellite link connecting their Athens and Cyprus infrastructure.
Via Satellite reported separately that Deutsche Telekom is the first operator to sign for Starlink Mobile V2, which SpaceX plans to deploy across 10 European...
Via Satellite's own Sept 3 writeup independently covers the Sept 1 Axelspace/Airbus GRUS imagery partnership with distinct wording and a CEO quote, giving ge...
Planet signed a one-year agreement to supply Planet Mosaics and support services to an unnamed European defense and intelligence customer.
ESA's own Sept. 2 page confirms the MAGPIE contract's formal implementation signing ceremony (Space for Inspiration event, Copenhagen) and adds first-party m...
The German launch company adds 50 million euros to its Series A, taking total funding past 125 million euros.
4iG and SpaceX signed Europe's first Starlink Mobile and Sovereign Solutions agreements, launching in Hungary and Albania.
Open Cosmos becomes an approved provider on the UK's £8 billion TacSys defence-communications framework.
Project-S emerged from stealth with a multi-million-euro seed round to build a radar-based system for tracking orbital debris.
Mitsubishi Electric leads a fresh €108M tranche, bringing PLD Space's Series C round to €288M total.
Axelspace and Airbus Defence and Space will jointly distribute GRUS satellite imagery to a broader customer base.
OHB will build all 18 IRIS2 medium Earth orbit satellite platforms under a contract worth almost €1 billion from SES.
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...
Swedish satellite operator Ovzon signed its first German partnerships to test its satcom platform with a government customer.
ESA awarded Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and PLD Space a combined €543.6 million to fly alternatives to Ariane 6.
ESA's Draco satellite, built to record its own atmospheric breakup, passed its Critical Design Review ahead of a 2027 launch.
ICEYE opens a Dutch subsidiary and R&D hub tied to its existing SAR intelligence work for the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force.
Scotland's HIE bought the liquidated Sutherland Spaceport's assets, keeping the UK launch site's future open after Orbex's collapse.
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...
Kongsberg will double its N3X dark-vessel-tracking constellation to six satellites in early 2027 for the Norwegian Armed Forces.
MaiaSpace's fifth commercial contract lets French broker Ride sell auxiliary payload space on future Maia launches from 2028.
ESA told European Spaceflight it is no longer considering the Ariane 6 Block 3 upgrade and its lightweight carbon-composite upper stage.
CNES issued an RFI for a compact, diamond-machined optical telescope meant to scale past 1,000 units for constellations.
SpaceX reversed the roaming exclusion after Polish government pressure; updated headline and copy to reflect the resolution and attached two new corroboratin...
Synspective opened Synspective Europe GmbH in Munich, Germany, to serve as its EMEA hub for SAR satellite data and partnerships.
SpaceX reversed Starlink's Poland roaming exclusion days before it was due to take effect, after Polish officials protested.
Marlink agreed to buy Global RadioData Communications, a UK satellite and RF comms specialist serving the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO.
OHB CEO Marco Fuchs, whose company is RFA's majority owner, said on OHB's August 6 earnings call that engineers took the rocket back into the hangar and open...
Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said the deal will "boost secure governmental capacity by more than 60% within the Union." Payload reported the division of lab...
The companies signed an MOU to demonstrate a 2.5 Gbps optical link between a reentry capsule and an orbiting satellite in 2027.
Rocket Lab launched a Munich-based German subsidiary to build a regional hub for satellite manufacturing and European launch sales.
ESA's Aschbacher tells the Financial Times Europe's launch capacity won't meet demand by 2030, and wants developers to price expansion.
Space.com's Aug 9 writeup independently covers the same Aug 4 Kreios/NanoAvionics VLEO propulsion demo announcement already led by SpaceNews (trade) and corr...
Eutelsat's full-year results show LEO connectivity revenue up 69.5% to EUR297 million, now a quarter of total revenue.
SES cleared a key IRIS² milestone and confirmed up to €1.35 billion to build 18 medium-orbit satellites for the EU program.
RFA de-stacked its rocket to investigate an issue, forcing SaxaVord to cancel its planned launch-window traffic orders.
The European Commission and SpaceRISE concluded a deal adding 66 satellites to IRIS2, taking the program to EUR15.6 billion.
Bulgaria's government signed an MOU with EnduroSat to turn a former air base into a European satellite production hub.
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...
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.
CNES president François Jacq says a subscale ASTRE engine prototype will get its first hot-fire test in 2028.
Kreios Space will fly its air-breathing electric propulsion system on a NanoAvionics satellite bus in 2027.
Germany's Space Agency at DLR funded LiveEO to study a foundation AI model spanning optical and radar Earth-observation imagery.
MaiaSpace posted a 37.5 million euro loss for 2025 that pushed shareholders' equity negative; ArianeGroup voted not to dissolve it.
ETL Systems buys Croatian software specialist Amphinicy to broaden its satellite ground-segment portfolio.
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...
Spain's satellite operator signed the industrial contract for a replacement secure-comms satellite after SpainSat NG II's total loss.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
A defunct SpaceX Starlink satellite burned up over the Netherlands on July 24, producing a widely observed fireball, per Dutch outlets.
Free corroboration found this sweep: Tech.eu independently covered the same ORiS pre-seed round with matching figures, a distinct outlet from the SpaceNews l...
Spire and SATE will spend 18 months building an ESA-funded AI system, called STRAIDE, for real-time satellite health monitoring.
German Defence Minister Pistorius said the Bundeswehr is weighing its own launch site to avoid commercial launch queues.
Belgium's AMOS will build PROVIDENCE, a 2.5-metre telescope giving France's Air and Space Force LEO object-tracking down to 10 cm.
Per SpaceNews: the Turin startup raised 5 million euros to develop laser-based wireless power beaming for satellites.
Poland more than doubled its IRIS2 contribution to 656.3 million euros; Eutelsat has now detailed its side of the MoU.
The UK government and Space Florida each pledged $200,000 to launch a new joint aerospace innovation fund.
MDA Space UK will supply LEIA LiDAR sensors for the hazard-detection system on ESA's Argonaut lunar lander, per an interim OHB contract.
The UK government opened GBP62 million in space-sector funding, including a third C-LEO satcom technology round.
Ariane 6 successfully launched EUMETSAT's MTG-I2 weather satellite on its first flight to geostationary transfer orbit.
Per Hartpunkt: David Cavaillolès says a 10-20-launch block order would 'completely change' Ariane 6's supply chain planning.
Swissto12 raised a $70 million Series C to scale up HummingSat small-GEO satellite manufacturing.
Belgium's defence ministry will spend over 200 million euros on its own low-Earth-orbit imaging constellation.
ESA signed a launch contract flying its Henon CubeSat as a secondary payload on Ariane 6 alongside the Plato telescope.
UK Space Agency director Rebecca Evernden says a new national space strategy is coming 'in the coming weeks.'
The Spanish propulsion maker opened a 1,000-square-metre plant near Barcelona, its first shift to serial production.
The UK Space Agency missed its deadline to award a GBP75.6 million debris-removal contract to Astroscale or ClearSpace.
Spire and Italy's SATE will spend 18 months building AI to diagnose satellite health and failures, under an ESA-backed program.
The EU Council ordered a 24-hour delay releasing Sentinel imagery of part of the Gulf of Oman after a US security request.
ESA's 2026 report found European space budgets grew 12% to €13.5 billion in 2025, the fastest rise in five years.
Poland will host ESA's first center in an eastern-flank member state and is raising its ESA funding roughly tenfold for 2026-2028.
Lead upgraded to NATO's own 7 July announcement after Florian approved a NATO registry institution profile (2026-07-12), which makes nato.int a first-party d...
Payload's July 10 follow-up reports commercial suppliers behind several national programs feeding into HALO: ICEYE is providing SAR satellites to Finland and...
ICEYE established ICEYE Portugal and a Lisbon R&D center of excellence, naming Rui Costa as country CEO.
The Exploration Company set up a Houston-based US entity, TEC Federal, to compete for US government contracts.
Ovzon tested its GEO satellite and mobile terminals nearly 1,300 km inside the Arctic Circle with NATO country observers.
Isar Aerospace signs launch site deal with Maritime Launch Services
Corroboration correction and source upgrade (found_none was wrong): Isar's own press release confirms the deal first-party, with European Spaceflight and The...
Simera Sense to supply imagers for Canary Islands EO constellation
Austria selects R-Space to build second military satellite
Sybilla Technologies raises $10 million to expand SSA network
Latitude signs LOI for first orbital launch from Oman
Firefly and SSC Space target 2028 for first Esrange launch
MaiaSpace weighs fourth engine for Maia rocket
NASA adds three European firms to CSDA data program
OHB raises 510 million euros for manufacturing
ICEYE formally established a German entity in Berlin and Munich, naming Philipp Herkelmann CEO of ICEYE Germany.
Per Andrew Parsonson on Bluesky, Loft Orbital signed MaiaSpace for multiple launches starting 2028.
MDA Space is acquiring a 70% stake in French EO data analytics firm CLS for 567 million euros, per SpaceNews.
Beyond Gravity will supply 27 payload fairings for Ariane 6 flights 16 through 42, its largest Swiss launch-vehicle contract yet.
Per Aviation Week's Vivienne Machi: NATO signaled the SDA concept "may be evolving into a blueprint for organizing allied space."
Intesa Sanpaolo, the EIB and ESA launched a EUR 300 million financing facility for Italy's aerospace supply-chain SMEs.
Isar Aerospace will pay Maritime Launch Services for a dedicated Spectrum launch complex at Spaceport Nova Scotia in Canada.
ICEYE says its SAR constellation now stands at 76 satellites after a four-satellite Transporter-17 launch.
Per SpaceNews, Simera Sense won a deal to supply eight multispectral imagers for a new regional EO constellation.
Rocket Factory Augsburg found an issue during pressure testing and de-stacked RFA ONE, casting doubt on the planned August 10 launch window.
Per SpaceNews, Arianespace and Infinite Orbits will explore direct-to-GEO rideshare services on Ariane 6 from 2029.
Unseenlabs says it launched BRO-31, the first satellite of a heavier, more capable second-generation RF-detection fleet.
Open Cosmos launched Posidonia, the Balearic Islands' first satellite, and Hyperion GR-1, the first of a planned Greek EO constellation.
Eight NATO members will network their sovereign military satellites into a shared hybrid constellation.
Eurospace's 2025 report shows European space industry sales up 23% to EUR10.9 billion, with EO overtaking telecom as the top segment.
Isar Aerospace's own newsroom published the July 2 press release for this exact deal (same Polak quote, 12-month target, and additional-satellite provision a...
Isar Aerospace to launch Planet's first German-built satellite mission
European Spaceflight independently covered the same July 1 Latitude/Etlaq Spaceport Oman LOI; attached as a second distinct trade source.
Former German Chancellery chief Wolfgang Schmidt joins Planet's European Advisory Board.
Eutelsat asked the FCC for US market access for a planned 528-satellite Next constellation alongside its existing OneWeb fleet.
Isar's Spectrum rocket will carry a Planet Labs Germany Pelican Earth-observation satellite within about a year of the deal.
Austria's Ministry of Defence picked R-Space to build Aurora, a laser-comms and quantum-encryption demonstration satellite due in 2027.
Poland's Sybilla Technologies raised about $10 million to grow its optical sensor network and enter the US market.
ESA contracted Spain's EMXYS to build Don Quijote, the first CubeSat designed to land on an asteroid, for its Ramses mission.
ESA and EUMETSAT contract Airbus to build a successor to the Aeolus wind-lidar satellite as an operational service.
French launch startup Latitude wants to fly its small launcher from a new Omani spaceport as soon as late 2027.
Italy's IRIDE Earth observation marketplace went live July 1 for government users, with commercial access planned later.
Firefly and SSC Space signed a contract for two Alpha rocket launches from Esrange, Sweden, targeted no earlier than 2028.
ArianeGroup subsidiary MaiaSpace is considering a fourth Prometheus engine that would double Maia's payload across all variants.
Iberdrola picked ICEYE for a 12-month satellite grid-monitoring pilot.
MaiaSpace's 2025 loss pushed shareholders' equity to -€823,375; ArianeGroup voted against dissolving the launch startup.
Per SpaceNews, NASA added three European Earth-observation firms to its CSDA commercial-data contract.
OHB is issuing new shares worth roughly 510 million euros to fund manufacturing capacity and its RFA launch subsidiary.
The Vienna TU Wien spinout gets grants and equity to industrialise its chemical Jetpack thrusters, per SpaceNews.
ICEYE will provide always-on SAR flood tracking across mainland Norway and Svalbard under a one-year government contract.
Portugal is expanding its sovereign SAR constellation from one satellite to four, all built by ICEYE.
ESA says the upgraded boosters made this the heaviest payload ever launched by a European rocket, beating Ariane 5's ATV.
The Belgian firm calls it the first made-in-Belgium commercial satellite; RTBF reports a hyperspectral instrument aboard.
SES and Airbus signed a lease in Noordwijk, Netherlands for Eagle-1's optical ground station, per European Spaceflight.
The Israeli defence company and German manufacturer co-fund a very-high-resolution, high-revisit satellite line, per their release.
Spire and the German defence integrator will explore satellite-based early warning against ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
An ISOS joint declaration at ILA Berlin, plus six Horizon Europe projects launched, led by a EUR 12M servicing-spacecraft award.
Thales Alenia Space will build two next-generation Sentinel-1 radar satellites, with Airbus supplying the SAR instruments.
ICEYE's primary Series F values the SAR operator above EUR 10B; the full round tops EUR 1B with a secondary placement.
Bresnik commands, Parmitano pilots; the reprofiled mission will demo docking with Blue Origin and SpaceX lander test versions.
The UK startup targets 200-300 km very low Earth orbit with air-breathing ion propulsion; first flight planned for 2028.
ESA signed a deal for Vast to fly Czech astronaut Ales Svoboda to the ISS in 2027 under a NASA-awarded mission.
Orbex filed for UK administration in February after Series D funding talks and an acquisition by The Exploration Company both fell through.
Orbex, developer of the UK's Prime small launch vehicle, filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators on February 11, 2026, after failing to close a Series D funding round or complete a previously announced acquisition by French company The Exploration Company, per SpaceNews, Via Satellite, and European Spaceflight. Orbex, a winner of ESA's European Launcher Challenge that had received EUR34.9 million ($41.5 million) from the program, had already shut down its Danish rocket-engine subsidiary and laid off about 90 employees in January; administration puts roughly 150 further UK jobs at risk. CEO Phil Chambers said: "Disappointing doesn't come close to describing how we feel about this moment."
A space particle strike during orbit-raising destroyed Spain's new secure military comms satellite before it entered service.
OHB CEO Marco Fuchs said OHB will raise formal concerns during the EU's antitrust review of the Airbus-Leonardo-Thales space merger.
Airbus, Leonardo and Thales signed an MOU to combine space units into one company with 25,000 staff and EUR 6.5bn revenue.
Airbus, Leonardo and Thales signed a memorandum of understanding on October 23, 2025 to combine their space businesses into a new, jointly controlled company, per Via Satellite. Airbus will hold 35% of the new venture and Leonardo and Thales 32.5% each; the combination pools Airbus's Space Systems and Space Digital units, Leonardo's Space Division including its stakes in Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space, and Thales's own shares in Thales Alenia Space, Telespazio and Thales SESO (launchers are excluded). The companies project the venture will have about 25,000 employees across Europe, roughly EUR 6.5 billion in pro-forma 2024 revenue, and a backlog covering more than three years of sales, with operations expected to start in 2027 subject to regulatory approvals.