SAN FRANCISCO – Spacedock, a Silicon Valley startup formerly known as Orbital Outpost X, announced plans Aug. 20 for a 2026 in-space demonstration of a universal connector for space systems. Working with launch integrator Oligo Space and radiation-shielding specialist Melagen Labs, Spacedock is preparing to fly its berthing and docking connector, also called Spacedock, in […]

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Last February, I wrote that the merger of the satellite and terrestrial cellular industry was not yet a marriage made in heaven. However, at the Mobile World Congress , held last March in Barcelona, I noticed that Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) and direct-to-device (D2D) services received an exceptional amount of attention from the cellular industry. In […]

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A lunar rover makes its way across rough terrain in August, navigating past rocky outcrops and around, or sometimes over, small craters. The topography in this case, is not the moon but instead in Colorado, at a site selected by Lunar Outpost to test the rovers it is developing for NASA and others. In many […]

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General Atomics and Kepler Communications demonstrate interoperability for Space Force’s future military constellation

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Turku, Finland — 29 August 2025 — ASRO – Aboa Space Research Oy and Ethereal Space, Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership to develop and deploy advanced space weather instruments designed to monitor energetic […]

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The headquarters of U.S. Space Command will be relocated from Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama

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The recent passing of retired Navy Capt. Jim Lovell, an astronaut and one of our great American heroes, propelled many of us back to the iconic scenes from the superb […]

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Sarah Walter was most recently vice president of engineering at satellite manufacturer York Space Systems

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NASA is moving ahead with plans to support development of a lunar nuclear power system with an emphasis on commercialization.

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SAN FRANCISCO — South Korea’s SI Imaging Services announced a contract Sept. 2 to lease the capacity of Earth-observation satellite SpaceEye-T to a European customer. SpaceEye-T, an optical satellite offering native resolution of 25 centimeters per pixel, reached orbit in March on a SpaceX Transporter-13 rideshare. Satrec Initiative, SI Imaging Services’ parent company, developed and […]

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President Trump should invite NATO allies to join the Golden Dome Initiative, transforming the proposed Golden Dome for America into a Golden Dome for NATO. Such a shift would better match today’s security realities and send the clear message to potential adversaries that we are united in deterring and defending against nuclear and conventional ballistic, […]

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SpaceNews interviewed Muon Space President Gregory Smirin as the company races to expand production capabilities following a $90 million funding boost.

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The service is rolling out initiatives, including a series of “AI Challenges” — hackathon-style competitions

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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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