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Mar 9, 2023
IRIS2 schedule begins to slip
The EU, in giving final confirmation of its intent to deploy the secure, multi-orbit satellite network IRIS2

Feb 25, 2023
Ocean-based launchpads, an old cure for a new problem?
Launching orbital rockets from a ship is a decades-old idea that keeps resurfacing in fits and starts.

Feb 24, 2023
ULA’s rapid ramp up plans for Vulcan
After nine years of development, ULA now has a launch date of May 4 for the first Vulcan mission.

Feb 24, 2023
Is DoD finally warming to satellite services?
For over a decade, the space industry hoped to win the U.S. military as a customer – and hopefully an anchor customer

Feb 21, 2023
Launcher abandons rocket plans in Vast acquisition
In the chronically overcrowded world of small launch vehicles, there is now one less. Space station startup Vast Space announced

Feb 14, 2023
Maxar and Umbra team up
Maxar has signed an agreement with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) startup Umbra to receive dedicated capacity on Umbra’s constellation

Feb 13, 2023
EU follows UK’s dubious pattern of scrutiny over Inmarsat-Viasat merger
EU antitrust regulators have reached the same conclusion as Britain’s top regulators in its review of Inmarsat’s proposed merger with Viasat

Feb 2, 2023
ILS CEO goes to Spaceflight
This is a big win for Spaceflight in getting a high-caliber industry executive to succeed Curt Blake, who had 10 years at the helm

Feb 1, 2023
EchoStar begins construction of new small satellite constellation
Though a few years late (three, to be exact), EchoStar finally pulled the trigger on an S-band smallsat constellation.

Feb 1, 2023
SDA begins Tranche 2 bidding process
The Space Development Agency released a solicitation for the first 72 communications satellites in Tranche 2

Feb 1, 2023
Astroforge seeks to revive asteroid mining, announces first two demo missions
Undeterred by the exits of Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources, Astroforge is the latest asteroid mining start-up

Jan 26, 2023
NATO’s space center for excellence moves forward
When NATO selected Toulouse, France’s aerospace mecca, as the site for its future space center of excellence in 2019

Jan 23, 2023
SDA hopes SABRE sensors can slash missile testing costs by ‘millions’
More clarity is emerging around what types of payloads the Space Development Agency (SDA) is considering for the handful of

Jan 17, 2023
Ariane 6 schedule holding
With Vega C offline, Soyuz gone and Ariane 5 imminently retiring, retaining the Ariane 6 schedule is now more important than ever.

Jan 15, 2023
Interstellar Technologies raises $29.6M
Interstellar Technologies has had little visible progress (at least in the West) for years, having launched a series of sounding rockets (on

Jan 14, 2023
A $316 million Falcon Heavy launch
We’re old enough to remember when SpaceX upbraided ULA for charging hundreds of millions of dollars for military launches.

Jan 6, 2023
Canon Electronics, IHI small launch venture still alive
It’s been over a year since we saw any real news about Space One, the Japanese consortium developing a small launcher (100kg to 500km).

Jan 6, 2023
Airbus Poland Satellite deal
Poland is poised to become one of the few countries with very high-resolution satellites.

Jan 5, 2023
Iridium Qualcomm partnership
Green bubble texters finally have their rival to Apple and Globalstar.

Jan 3, 2023
Six space tugs for Transporter-6
SpaceX kicked off the year with a truckload of satellites for numerous operators around the world.
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