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Starship Flight 12: Block 3 Impresses on First Flight
On Friday, May 22, 2026, at 5:30:21 pm CDT, Starship Flight 12 lifted off from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas. This stack, which comprised Ship 39 and Booster 19, was the first Block 3 stack to fly for the Starship Program. As well as launching from the completely redesigned Pad 2 at Starbase. This flight…
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Astroscale and SKY Perfect JSAT Form Strategic Partnership for Space Infrastructure Development
Astroscale Holdings, the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation announced that SKY Perfect JSAT is investing in Astroscale as part of a strategic partnership to support the development of reliable and sustainable space infrastructure. Through the partnership, the companies will cooperate on on-orbit servicing…
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RTX’s Raytheon Concludes Design Review of Landsat Next Space Instruments
Raytheon, an RTX business, has completed the preliminary design review for NASA‘s Landsat Next Instrument Suite (LandIS). Raytheon is providing multiple components for the program, including the multispectral imager, engineering analyses, algorithms, fabrication, testing and support. The design review validated the technical approach and engineering design of Raytheon’s instruments, algorithms and imager. The business’s multispectral…
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Intuitive Machines Takes Over Operations of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
Intuitive Machines has become the prime contractor for operating NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and a second lunar science instrument, marking the first time the space agency has handed operational control of active lunar science missions to a commercial company. The transfer, announced May 18, represents a significant shift in how NASA manages decades-old orbital…
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York Space Systems to Acquire Solestial for U.S-Built Space Solar Manufacturing
York Space Systems, a leading US-based national defense and commercial prime providing a comprehensive suite of mission-critical solutions, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Solestial, a leading provider of next-generation space solar technology. The acquisition secures a critical space solar capability within York’s supply chain through U.S-based manufacturing, strengthening control over…
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Anterix and Lynk Global Receive FCC Approval for 900 MHz Satellite Direct-to-Device Services
Anterix, the market leader in enabling mission-critical private wireless broadband networks, and satellite telecommunications provider Lynk Global, the pioneer of satellite Direct-to-Device (D2D) services, announced that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved an experimental license to explore the use of Lynk’s satellite direct-to-device communications network in Anterix’s licensed 900 MHz broadband spectrum. The integration of…
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Intuitive Machines Secures NASA Lunar Imaging Operations Contracts
Intuitive Machines, a space technology, infrastructure and services leader, is now the prime contractor for operations of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (“LROC”), a key instrument aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (“LRO”), and the ShadowCam instrument, a specialized lunar imaging camera on board the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter that provides visibility in light obscured conditions…
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SMILE Captures First X-Ray Portrait of Earth’s Magnetic Shield
The European Space Agency and Chinese Academy of Sciences have opened an entirely new window onto Earth’s magnetosphere with the successful launch of the SMILE mission, which lifted off aboard a Vega-C rocket from French Guiana early this morning. The spacecraft will deliver the first global X-ray images of the magnetosphere, the invisible magnetic cocoon…
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York Space Systems Buys Into Solar Supply Chain With Solestial Acquisition
York Space Systems is acquiring Solestial, a radiation-hardened solar panel manufacturer, in a move to control one of the satellite industry’s most persistent supply chain bottlenecks. The definitive merger agreement, announced May 19, marks York’s latest vertical integration push and signals a broader bet that owning critical components will outpace the delays and costs of…
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LambdaVision and Helogen Partner to Advance Space-Based Biomaterial Manufacturing
LambdaVision, a pre-clinical-stage biotech advancing on-Earth and microgravity bioprocesses, announced a strategic partnership with Helogen Corporation to launch a joint orbital manufacturing mission of LambdaVision’s artificial retina protein aboard Helogen’s fully autonomous manufacturing system in low-Earth orbit. The mission is targeted for launch in the second half of 2026. As this planned mission will mark…