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Spire Global Launches 9 Satellites on SpaceX Twilight Mission
Spire Global, a leading global provider of satellite data, analytics, and intelligence, successfully launched nine satellites aboard SpaceX’s Twilight mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. As part of the mission, Spire launched its Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder (HyMS) satellite demonstrator, a compact, space-ready sensor built to advance global weather forecasting from space. HyMS is designed to…
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Mitsubishi Corporation Becomes Foundational Customer of Starlab Commercial Space Station
Starlab Space LLC announced that Mitsubishi Corporation has reserved and pre-purchased capacity on Starlab’s commercial space station, becoming a foundational customer while simultaneously increasing its investment in the company and joining Starlab’s Board of Directors through representative Issei Shinohara. The expanded partnership includes the acquisition of usage rights for designated payload volume and the utilization…
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Planet Labs Signs 9-Figure Deal with Sweden
Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced a multi-year low-9-figure agreement with the Swedish Armed Forces to rapidly deliver a suite of satellites, space-based data and awareness solutions to support the country’s peace and security operations. This agreement marks Planet’s third Satellite Services contract in twelve…
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mPower Technology Highlights Advanced Space Power Technologies for Satellite Missions
mPower Technology, a US-based developer of advanced power and energy solutions, highlights the space technology portfolio designed to address the growing power-generation and power-management demands of modern satellite missions. The company’s technologies are already in use across aerospace and defense programs and are engineered to meet the strict size, weight, performance and reliability requirements of…
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Startup GRU Space Opens Applications for Planned Lunar Hotel, Targets 2032 Opening
Galactic Resources Utilization (GRU) Space said on Monday it has begun accepting applications from prospective lunar tourists, asking for a $1 million deposit to reserve a place at a planned Moon-based hotel that the startup says could open as early as 2032. The California-based company, founded in 2025, said the deposit would secure a future…
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Aetherflux Hires Joe Yaffe as COO and Chief Legal Officer
Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, has hired Joe Yaffe as chief operating officer (COO) and chief legal officer (CLO). Yaffe joins Aetherflux from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he served as managing partner of the law firm’s Palo Alto office. Aetherflux aims to harvest solar power in space…
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ESA Revises ISS Barter Plan With NASA After Cancelling Cargo Transport Call
The European Space Agency (ESA) has outlined a revised barter arrangement with the United States that would allow it to meet its International Space Station (ISS) cost-sharing obligations without commissioning a dedicated commercial cargo delivery mission, senior officials said this month. The move follows ESA’s decision in December to cancel a call for proposals for…
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FCC Gives SpaceX Approval for 7,500 More Starlink Gen2 Satellites
The FCC has authorized SpaceX to deploy 7,500 more Gen2 Starlink satellites, while giving SpaceX the approval to operate Starlink in more frequencies and waive satellite power limits inside the United States. The FCC issued the approval on Jan. 9. The order allows SpaceX to deploy 7,500 more satellites and allows for modification to the…
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India’s PSLV suffers second consecutive launch failure, 16 satellites lost
The PSLV-C62 rocket lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre carrying the EOS-N1 Earth observing satellite along with 15 other rideshare satellites. The four-stage rocket suffered an anomaly with its third stage. Image: ISRO via livestream India’s first launch of 2026 ended in failure due to an issue with the third stage of its…
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Launch Preview: Launches from China, U.S., and Norway scheduled for upcoming week
Eight orbital launch attempts are scheduled for this week, with SpaceX and Chinese launches comprising a majority of the launch manifest. SpaceX is scheduled to launch two batches of Starlink satellites into the constellation’s Group 6 shell, as well as a batch of reconnaissance satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office. Four rockets will launch from…