RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies announces new + larger spacecraft – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-08-07 00:00
The Saturn-400 offers increased payload capacity, allowing for more instruments and larger sensors. It’s also the company’s first satellite to offer an optional built-in attitude control system. The Saturn-400 has rideshare capability while offering higher power and volume scaling.
First next generation GEO-based missile warning satellite completes environmental testing, on track for delivery to USSF – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-08-07 00:00
The first Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Block 0 missile warning satellite recently completed thermal vacuum (TVAC) and acoustic testing. The satellite is now in final systems integration testing, which includes testing connections with various ground systems.
SpaceX’s ‘delivery’ of Amazon’s ProjectKuiper launch scrubbed and is now on Friday – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-08-07 00:00
SpaceX officials just confirmed this morning’s mission was postponed “to perform additional vehicle checkouts.” The countdown clock on SpaceX’s site stopped at 45 minutes, 29 seconds before liftoff. A live webcast of this mission will begin about 15 minutes prior to liftoff, which you can watch on X @SpaceX.
Astroscale’s new patent transforms space debris removal – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-08-07 00:00
Astroscale Holdings Inc. Announced the issuance of a U.S. Patent No. 12,234,043 B2 for the company’s “Method and System for Multi-Object Space Debris Removal.” This patented innovation offers a sustainable and cost-effective distributed architecture approach to active debris removal.
Global Invacom partners to launch eNexus Space Data for GSaaS – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-08-07 00:00
ENexus Space Data is a Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) offering. GIHL has acquired a 45.5% stake in exchange for the provision of certain initial satellite communications equipment. ENexus will deliver data collected by satellites across multiple orbits for a wide range of applications.
Crew-10 poised for return to Earth after months at ISS
Original Publication Date: 2025-08-07 02:22
Crew-10 is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station on Friday, Aug. 8, at 22:05 UTC before splashing down off the west coast of the United States the next day. Crew-10, composed of astronauts from NASA, Japan, and Russia, will hand over its duties to the recently launched Crew-11 astronauts. After splashdown, a recovery crew will converge on the floating Crew Dragon and check for any hydrazine leaks from the spacecraft’s thrusters.