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Quindar is to supply secure automated mission control infrastructure to Starfish Space. Quindar will support operations for Starfish’s first three Otter missions. Starfish Space is developing the Otter satellite servicing vehicle and aims to provide life extension and end-of-life services for satellites in orbit. Quindar announced the partnership on Feb. 5. By providing automation-first operations,…

Members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee voted to approve a NASA authorization bill this week, advancing legislation chock full of policy guidelines meant to give lawmakers a voice in the space agency’s strategic direction. The committee met to “mark up” the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026, adding more than 40 amendments to…

Viasat reported modest 3% year-over-year revenue increase in the company’s third quarter, driven by its defense segment. The operator expects the second ViaSat-3 satellite to enter service by May — CEO Mark Dankberg told investors on Thursday the satellite is about 34 days away from being on station.  The F2 satellite launched in November and…

Welcome to Edition 8.28 of the Rocket Report! The big news in rocketry this week was that NASA still hasn’t solved the problem with hydrogen leaks on the Space Launch System. The problem caused months of delays before the first SLS launch in 2022, and the fuel leaks cropped up again Monday during a fueling…

Blue Origin is now targeting the satellite constellation market, in one of the biggest and perhaps even most surprising story of the year, Blue Origin announced it was going to build TeraWave, a new constellation of optically linked satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO), geared toward enterprise users and data centers. A satellite…

A recent report from connectivity data provider Ookla found that SpaceX‘s Starlink customers made up an overwhelming majority of its speed test samples in the third quarter of 2025, dwarfing its competitors operating satellites in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). And those speed tests logged higher download speeds on Starlink, yet did match the level of speeds…

Move over Snoopy, because NASA has a new character helping to promote its deep space exploration plans. His name is Uncle Traveling Matt. No really, move over. Fraggle Rock: A Space-y Adventure has taken over the same theater the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida previously used for All Systems Are Go, featuring the…