Germany’s Isar Aerospace to launch Spectrum vehicle’s test flight – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-03-20 00:00 Isar Aerospace is a German aerospace company based in Munich, Germany. The company is preparing to conduct the launch of Spectrum from Andøya Spaceport in Norway on Sunday, ...

SKY Perfect JSAT selects Thales Alenia Space to build “JSAT-32” communications satellite – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-03-10 00:00 JSAT-32 will provide coverage over Japan and its surrounding seas. It will be built on Thales Alenia Space’s Spacebus 4000B2 platform. The satellite is ...

Firefly Aerospace, just 4 days from Moon landing, shows Blue Ghost – low lunar orbit Moon footage – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2025-02-26 00:00 Firefly Aerospace is now less than 4 days from landing on the Moon. The video, sped up by 10X, was taken about 100 km above the lunar surface. ...

SES launches 7th and 8th O3b mPOWER satellites, stregthening MEO constellation – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2024-12-17 00:00 SES announced today that its latest pair of O3b mPOWER satellites was successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in ...

Astra completes deal to go private Original Publication Date: 2024-07-19 08:32 Astra Space has completed a deal to take the company private at 50 cents per share. The agreement ends Astra’s time as a publicly traded company a little more than three years. Astra went public through a merger with ...

Senate Armed Services Committee advances 2025 defense policy bill Original Publication Date: 2024-06-15 10:04 Senate Armed Services Committee clears version of fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. Bill includes compromise language on transfer of Air National Guard space units to ...

Space Development Agency calls on satellite builders to diversify suppliers Original Publication Date: 2024-06-09 11:13 Space Development Agency is pushing prime contractors to line up secondary and tertiary suppliers. The agency is in discussions with all its major vendors about “diversifying ...

AI startup Wallaroo tapped to help Space Force operationalize machine learning Original Publication Date: 2024-05-30 10:00 Wallaroo.AI will participate in the U.S. Space Force’s TAP (Tools, Applications & Processing) Lab accelerator program. The accelerator is focused on the use of commercial ...

SpaceX launches first mid-inclination dedicated rideshare mission Original Publication Date: 2024-04-08 03:59 SpaceX launches the first in a new line of dedicated rideshare missions. The Bandwagon missions are intended to send payloads to low Earth orbits at 45 degrees. SpaceX announced the ...

Jupiter-3 enters commercial service Original Publication Date: 2024-01-12 22:11 EchoStar's giant Jupiter-3 broadband satellite is performing as expected. Early customers are getting download speeds of up to 100 megabits per second. The company is eager to fill Jupiter-3’s 500 gigabits per ...