Military space assets need the same logistics backbone as terrestrial forces, argues Gen. Whiting

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Strong government demand helped send Eutelsat’s LEO revenues soaring 84% over the past 12 months, although the French operator expects its legacy geostationary business to continue weighing on profits in the year ahead.

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Interlune, a startup with plans to harvest helium-3 from the moon, will fly an instrument on the first lunar rover from fellow startup Astrolab.

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Big systems projects are nothing novel in defense acquisition. However, a big systems project delivered fast and at an affordable cost is more uncommon. The Trump administration’s transformational vision for continental missile defense, called Golden Dome, has the opportunity to be notable not only for its innovative approach to defending the United States, but for […]

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A Rocket Lab Electron launched the latest in a series of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellites for a Japanese company Aug. 5.

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The company is positioning its existing missile defense portfolio as foundation for homeland shield

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Skyrora has become the first British company to secure a launch license from the U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority, though a lack of available launch pads could push its first suborbital flight from SaxaVord Spaceport into 2026.

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NASA has formally ended a lunar orbiter smallsat mission more than five months after losing contact with it, another blow to the agency’s efforts at low-cost planetary missions.

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Rochester, N.Y./Ontario, N.Y. — Eoptic Inc. and Starris: Optimax Space Systems announce a partnering agreement to build end-to-end satellite imaging payloads that leverage the knowledge and space heritage of both […]

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Manchester — Military space operators worldwide need to more quickly identify aggressive actions on orbit and be more closely integrated with their counterparts in the air, land and sea domains if they hope to deter threats in the near future, a panel of space leaders said.  The 1942 book “Victory Through Air Power” changed modern […]

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China completed a third launch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites in eight days Monday, marking the first such mission to involve a commercial satellite manufacturer.

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We should rethink how to send humans to Mars — a goal now getting much discussion. With proposed budgets and current technical difficulties in human spaceflight development making such a goal unrealistic, it may be time to change the focus from humans getting to Mars to sustainable exploration of Mars by humans. To that end, […]

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For decades, metal additive manufacturing (AM) has promised to revolutionize aerospace by offering lighter, more complex, and faster-to-produce components. But for much of its history, AM in the space sector […]

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Three European companies that have proposed combining their space businesses say they are still in discussions after missing a July deadline for a “go/no-go” decision on the merger.

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Blue Origin conducted its third crewed New Shepard flight in just over two months Aug. 3, sending six people to space.

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Executives highlight the role of AI and data integration as essential to the success of Golden Dome

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The Russian space agency Roscosmos has hailed the first face-to-face meeting between its leader and the head of NASA in almost seven years while NASA largely ignored the event.

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EchoStar has placed a $1.3 billion order with MDA Space for the first 100 satellites of a $5 billion direct-to-device connectivity constellation, even as regulatory scrutiny of the company’s spectrum licenses threatens to push it into bankruptcy.

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As global energy demands grow space-based solar power (SBSP) may offer a compelling long-term solution. A comprehensive international assessment completed under the International Academy of Astronautics concluded that solar power […]

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A Crew Dragon spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with a new crew, but how long they will stay at the station remains unclear.

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Several senators are demanding details from NASA on claims that the agency is withholding current funding and planning to enact proposed cuts.

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As space operations grow in the United States, we face a bottleneck: the limited capacity of coastal spaceports. While Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg remain effective for the nation, these launch sites are becoming congested, and their federally funded infrastructure has struggled to keep pace. Nearby communities face noise, sonic booms, environmental effects and concerns over […]

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SAN FRANCISCO – Earth-observation startup Albedo won a National Reconnaissance Office Stage 2 contract, clearing the way for the intelligence agency to begin purchasing imagery. “This award gives us a critical opportunity to demonstrate what [Very Low Earth Orbit] VLEO can offer in terms of performance, revisit, and resilience,” Topher Haddad, Albedo CEO and co-founder, […]

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Canada’s EarthDaily Analytics has secured a $60 million loan to kickstart delayed plans to expand its imaging constellation from one to 10 satellites.

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