Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
An uncrewed Starliner-1 mission could fly as soon as December, with crewed flights targeted for 2028 once thermal and thruster fixes identified after 2024’s troubled
Two unrelated Federal Register notices published this week: one is an environmental clearance for a new orbital rocket at Cape Canaveral, the other ends a
Shareholders overwhelmingly backed the deal, first announced in June, clearing a key hurdle toward what the companies call a vertically integrated space powerhouse. Iridium Communications
The deal marks Exolaunch’s move beyond satellite rideshare integration and comes as its acquisition by EQT Private Equity is expected to close by the end
A seven-country consortium led by Leonardo will spend the coming months mapping how national, institutional and commercial satellite assets could be federated into a single
Two new remote sensing satellite groups reached orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, a spaceport that has anchored China’s space programme since 1958 and
France has awarded the CASSIOPÉE contract to Airbus Defence and Space and co-contractor Unseenlabs, renewing the country’s space-based signal intelligence capability ahead of the CERES
Boeing has delivered the final three satellites, F11, F12 and F13, in SES’s 13-strong O3b mPOWER constellation, completing a medium-Earth-orbit network designed to deliver low-latency
An attitude control problem aboard Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft means it will not capture and boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a NASA Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract, allowing it to bid for task orders providing payload processing facilities and services for
Eight 500-kilogram satellite platforms built by Rocket Lab for MDA Space have launched successfully from Cape Canaveral and are performing nominally on orbit. They are
Hisdesat has appointed Airbus Defence and Space prime contractor for SpainSat NG-III, a secure communications satellite carrying active X-band antennas that provide the capability of
NASA and Blue Origin have signed an annex to an existing Space Act Agreement to conduct second stage hot fire testing of the New Glenn
Boeing has been selected by the U.S. Space Force to develop the next phase of the Mobile User Objective System Service Life Extension programme, providing
Diamond Aircraft has delivered a second DA62 MPP SurveyStar aircraft to Italian Remote Sensing, expanding the operator’s aerial survey capability and reflecting continued demand for
Safran Nacelles is strengthening the role of its Burnley facility as the Group’s Centre of Excellence for aerospace sheet metal manufacturing, combining specialist production capabilities
Airbus Defence and Space has formed a consortium with Rohde & Schwarz, constellr, Orbint and HPS to develop a sovereign European satellite-based intelligence, surveillance and
China has launched a new test satellite aboard a Long March-2D rocket to support research into direct mobile phone-to-satellite broadband connectivity and integrated space-ground network
China has launched the Shenzhou-23 crewed spacecraft carrying three astronauts to the Tiangong space station aboard a Long March-2F rocket. China has launched the Shenzhou-23
China launched the ninth batch of satellites for the Spacesail Constellation aboard a Long March-8 rocket from Hainan on 18 May 2026. China successfully launched
