Launch companies are reiterating plans to sharply increase flight rates to meet growing government and commercial demand, even as some fall short of earlier projections.

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EchoStar is looking for ways to expand its communications business as an “asset-light growth company,” CEO Hamid Akhavan said Sept. 15.

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The United States space enterprise is undergoing a sweeping transformation: commercial innovation is progressing at an incredible pace, with profound implications for national defense, economic competitiveness and industrial resilience. The shift represents unprecedented urgency across all levels of government to drive greater commercial space integration. At our annual 2025 State of the Space Industrial Base […]

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PARIS – Expanding defense budgets and the direct-to-device race are driving growth in the global space economy, Novaspace CEO Pacôme Révillon, said at the outset of the World Space Business Week conference here. At the same time, the space sector is experiencing significant consolidation, with an average of more than 50 annual mergers and acquisitions completed […]

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Earth observation is no longer just about capturing images from orbit — it is about delivering insights that shape how societies respond to global challenges. CSO Co., Ltd., a subsidiary […]

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A Falcon 9 launched an upgraded version of a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station Sept. 14.

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WASHINGTON — The chief executive of commercial space station developer Vast says he supports NASA’s revised approach to supporting development of such stations, calling it the best way to avoid a gap in U.S. human presence in orbit. Speaking Sept. 11 at the Global Aerospace Summit, Max Haot endorsed NASA’s new strategy, announced more than […]

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NASA has restored contact with one of a pair of space science satellites that ran into problems shortly after its July launch.

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A new report by Todd Harrison of the American Enterprise Institute estimates Golden Dome could cost from $252 billion to $3.6 trillion over 20 years, based on scope and capabilities

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Maxar executive Susanne Hake pressed the case that commercial firms can deliver faster and for less cost than bespoke government satellites, but need predictable funding and contracts to keep investing

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China conducted a rocket stage hot fire test Friday in the latest step in the country’s plans to land astronauts on the moon.

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The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 and 2000. Many were the product of NASA and industry study teams, while others were the work of committed individuals or […]

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Satellite manufacturer Apex has raised $200 million in a new funding round that values the company at more than $1 billion.

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Cailabs, a French company that manufactures optical ground stations for satellite communications, has raised 57 million euros ($67 million) to scale up production.

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CEO Jason Kim said the company’s Alpha vehicle could launch test targets while the Elytra platform could host interceptors for the Golden Dome missile-defense shield

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PARIS – Mobile edge computing specialist Armada and Sophia Space are working together to establish integrated, scalable compute infrastructure extending from Earth to space. By connecting terrestrial and orbital edge processors, the partners intend to “create a seamless edge-computing network that connects remote locations on Earth with computing resources in space,” according to the Sept. […]

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In this week’s episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss is joined by SpaceNews senior writer Jeff Foust to break down the surprising appointment of Sean Duffy as NASA’s Acting Administrator.

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House appropriators offered support, but no specific funding, for several NASA missions slated for cancellation in the administration’s 2026 budget proposal.

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Eutelsat has teamed up with French satellite connectivity startup Skynopy to explore offering Earth observation operators spare capacity on the ground stations used for OneWeb, its LEO broadband service.

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Scientists have found potential evidence of past life on Mars in a rock sample collected by a NASA rover, even as a proposed budget cancels plans to return those samples.

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The first 3D-printed arrays will be deployed on small satellites built by Millennium Space

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A startup has raised an initial round of funding to commercialize a technology that could create large structures in orbit.

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The satellites, made by York Space Systems, make up the first plane of a mesh network projected to have 126 spacecraft

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“The Space Force we have is not the Space Force we need” —Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations The United States and our allies have never been more dependent on space-based capabilities. Every other military service depends on capabilities from space to do their jobs. A loss of space capability would have a […]

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