ST Engineering iDirect: Unlocking SATCOM’s potential with cloud-native architectures – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-03 00:00
IDirect’s new cloud-native, multi-orbit ground system, Intuition, embodies the transformative potential of cloud-native architectures within satellite networks. Built on OpenShift, a Kubernetes-based platform, Intuition applies cloud-native principles to deliver unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and resilience. System abandons the monolithic structures of traditional systems in favor of cloud-native architecture.
DARPA selects Q-CTRL to develop next generation quantum sensors for defense platforms – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-03 00:00
Q-CTRL has been selected for two awards under DARPA’s Robust Quantum Sensors program. The contracts are valued at A$38 million ($24.4 million) to augment Q-CTRL’s field-validated quantum sensing technologies.
SpaceX on Tuesday launched 24 smallsats of Starlink Group 17-8 from California – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-02 00:00
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constelltion from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on Tuesday, September 2nd, at 8:50 PDT. This was the first flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission. After stage separation, the first stage landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which is stationed in the Pacific Ocean. The forecast calls for a temperature of 64°F, scattered clouds, 33% cloud cover and a wind speed of 12mph.
SpaceX’s early morning Wednesday launch from the Cape of 28 smallsats of Starlink Group 10-22 still on – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-02 00:00
SpaceX to launch 28 smallsats of Starlink Group 10-22 on Wednesday from the Cape Francisco is one of the leaders of the remote Itaquera community, located in one of the tributaries of the Rio Negro in the Brazilian Amazon. This will be the 14th flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-8, Polaris Dawn, CRS-31, Astranis: From One to Many, IM-2, Commercial GTO-1, and seven Starlink missions.
Launch Roundup: SpaceX to launch five Falcon 9 missions this week
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-01 22:01
Five Falcon 9 launches make up the launch manifest for this week. Four of them will add over 100 satellites to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation. One will transport a single Indonesian telecommunications satellite into orbit. Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are the first and only reusable orbital rockets in service today.