UK’s SatVu secures multi-million ESA contract to power climate and security intelligence – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-07-08 00:00 SatVu awarded a contract worth up to €3 million by the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply advanced thermal data to the Copernicus Contributing ...

UK’s Orbex and Germany’s Exolaunch partner in smallsat launch services – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-07-02 00:00 Orbex and Exolaunch collaborate to provide end-to-end launch services for small satellites. Exolaunch will use launch capacity and integrate customer payloads with ...

UPDATE: SpaceX experiences some good, some bad and some challenging experiences with Starship launch of 9th flight test – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-05-27 00:00 SpaceX plans Starship’s ninth flight test on Tuesday, May 27. The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. CT. A live webcast ...

DIU solicitation: CUAS Low Cost Sensing Challenge – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-05-20 00:00 The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), in collaboration with the U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), seeks to identify solutions for scalable, cost-effective, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) ...

Terran Orbital selected by USSF for $237 million STEP 2.0 smallsat buses contract – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-05-04 00:00 Terran Orbital is one of 12 companies awarded a position on the Space Test Experiments Platform (STEP) 2.0 contract. STEP 2.0 is designed to streamline the ...

ESA welcomes inauguration of the African Space Agency – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-04-23 00:00 The African Space Agency (AfSA) is the second regional space agency after ESA. Its headquarters are in Egypt, which launched Africa’s first satellite in 1998. AfSA has the goal of ...

SpaceX sends NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts to ISS with two returning home after an unscheduled prolonged stay – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-03-14 00:00 Falcon 9 launched Dragon’s tenth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-10) to the International Space Station. Dragon will ...

SpaceX’s bittersweet seventh flight test, the loss of Starship but successful catch of booster – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-01-16 00:00 SpaceX’s Starship tore through the skies from Boca Chica, Texas with 33 out of 33 engines working to send it on it’s seventh flight test. As the ...

SpaceX now plans launch of Starship’s seventh test flight on Wednesday – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-01-11 00:00 SpaceX plans Monday launch of Starship’s seventh test flight. A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 35 minutes before liftoff on X @SpaceX. You can also ...

Blue Origin ready for the first launch of New Glenn rocket on Thursday – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-01-05 00:00 Blue Origin concluded its test campaign and is ready to launch its New Glenn rocket, the company’s first orbital launch vehicle. The successful test campaign included ...