Chinese commercial rocket company Orienspace has raised tens of millions of dollars in Series B+ financing as it moves towards a key test flight.

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The White House has moved to eliminate employee unions at NASA, among other agencies, on national security grounds.

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President Trump’s recent executive order promoting commercial space competition highlights America’s unique advantage in the final frontier: our dynamic commercial space sector. American companies such as SpaceX, Planet Labs and Sierra Space are rewriting the rules of space access and operations. But as we celebrate these achievements, we must acknowledge a difficult truth: the United States lacks a coherent, […]

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Rocket Lab moved a step closer to the first launch of its Neutron rocket Aug. 28 with the formal opening of the vehicle’s launch site.

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SAN FRANCISCO – Viridian Space Corp. won a $1.25 million award from the U.S. Air Force for very low Earth orbit (VLEO) electric-propulsion technology. With funding from the Phase II award from Air Force technology innovation arm AFWERX, the Southern California startup will develop an air-fed cathode able to withstand erosion in the oxygen-rich VLEO environment. […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Nuview, a Florida startup building a constellation of lidar satellites, announced a $5 million award Aug. 28 from the Defense Department’s National Security Innovation Capital (NSIC) program. The funding will allow Orlando-based Nuview to rapidly prototype a lidar (light detection and ranging) payload for a constellation to provide “3D mapping of Earth […]

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China’s southern province of Guangdong is aiming to create a fully integrated commercial aerospace ecosystem with its latest policy moves. 

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For more than six decades, the United States has pursued the promise of nuclear power in space — a technology capable of delivering energy where sunlight can’t reach and enabling missions beyond the limits of chemical propulsion. Yet since a brief reactor flight in 1965, no fission reactor has operated in orbit.

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In this week’s episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Will Bruey, CEO and co-founder of Varda Space Industries — a company developing in-space pharmaceutical manufacturing.

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Space Systems Command: ‘This is a hosted payload program demonstrating how a commercial capability can provide flexible and adaptable space domain awareness’

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NASA is still working on a strategy to procure a Mars communications spacecraft funded in the budget reconciliation bill even as the agency moves towards a services approach to communications.

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The European Space Agency and European Commission have selected Avio and Isar Aerospace to launch the first missions of an initiative to support technology development and Europe’s launch industry.

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PHOENIX, Ariz. (August 27, 2025) – Spirit Electronics today announced a strategic distribution agreement with Kontron, a leading global provider of IoT and Embedded Computing Technology (ECT). Under the agreement, […]

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A startup developing software to turn satellites into virtual data centers is among four companies to win funding from San José’s first city-run artificial intelligence incentive program.

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East Aurora, NY — Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B), a worldwide designer, manufacturer and systems  integrator of high-performance precision motion and fluid controls and control systems, today proudly hosted  […]

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Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering: ‘How do we create an environment where new companies that have real solutions can come in?’

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Over the last decade, decreased costs of launch have unlocked new markets in space. The two largest are satellite communications and Earth observation in low Earth orbit (LEO). As these costs continue to fall with the advent of SpaceX’s Starship, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, Rocket Lab’s Neutron, Stoke Space’s Nova and others, the industry is […]

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a European reconnaissance satellite and several secondary payloads Aug. 26 in another example of the company’s rideshare launch services efforts.

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SpaceX completed a largely successful test flight of its Starship vehicle Aug. 26, putting the vehicle’s development program back on track after a series of failures earlier this year.

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Firefly Aerospace said its most recent Alpha launch four months ago was lost because of structural failure linked to higher-than-normal heating during the vehicle’s ascent.

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EchoStar’s proposed direct-to-device satellite network got a major boost Aug. 26 with plans to sell $23 billion of spectrum to AT&T, closing the book on its bid to operate as a traditional mobile carrier in the United States.

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XTAR’s new CEO Patrick Rayermann says two new satellites funded by Spain’s Hisdesat will give the company more tools to compete for DoD and allied government contracts

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Belgian satellite maker Aerospacelab has secured $110 million to expand manufacturing capacity and bolster its bid for a role in IRIS², Europe’s planned sovereign multi-orbit broadband constellation.

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The era of single-vector threats is behind us. That was Aerial Defense 1.0, when defenses were designed for ballistic missiles tracked by radar and defeated by linear kill webs. Threats came one at a time and could be countered in sequence. We are now entering Aerial Defense 2.0. The battlespace is fast, fused and multidomain. […]

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