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German Armed Forces Picks Rheinmetall and Iceye for SAR Constellation
The German Armed Forces has awarded a new joint venture between Rheinmetall and Iceye a contract to deliver an exclusive constellation, valued at approximately 1.7 billion euro ($2 billion). Data from the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) constellation will primarily be used to protect the German Armed Forces’ Lithuania Brigade and secure NATO’s eastern flank, the…
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Government Shutdown and Maritime Divestment Impact Spire in Q3 Results
Revenue for Spire Global was down nearly 56% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2025, which the company attributed to divesting its maritime business and the U.S. government shutdown shifting expected revenue into 2026. Spire reported third quarter revenue of $12.7 million, compared to $28.6 million in the same time last year. The company noted…
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Rocket Lab Launches Space Test Program S30 Mission With DiskSat Satellite
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket carrying the Pentagon’s Space Test Program (STP) S30 mission lifted off from the Virginia Spaceport Authority’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, on Thursday, according to U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command. S30 has four research and development, Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) DiskSat satellites, funded by NASA and developed by Aerospace…
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Moody’s Ratings Downgrades SES Rating; SES Responds
Moody’s Ratings downgraded the credit assessment of SES from ba1 to ba2 on Dec. 17, citing weaker pro forma results for the first nine months of 2025 and the high integration and restructuring costs for the Intelsat acquisition. Moody’s withdrew SES’s Baa3 long-term issuer rating and assigned the company a Ba1 long-term corporate family rating. The…
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Rocket Lab launches 4 novel DiskSat satellites for U.S. Space Force, NASA
An overhead view of Aerospace’s DiskSat during launch preparations. Image: Rocket Lab A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched four novel satellite buses minutes after midnight from Virginia on Thursday. The 20th launch of an Electron rocket was dubbed ‘Don’t Be Such A Square’ by the company and carried onboard the Space Test Program (STP)-S30 mission.…
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BlackSky’s Third Gen-3 Achieves Rapid Commercial Operations Three Weeks Post-Launch
BlackSky Technology successfully integrated its third Gen-3 satellite into commercial operations just three weeks following launch, reflecting an exponential increase in commissioning speed since the launch of its first Gen-3 unit. This accomplishment reflects another remarkable performance milestone as the company seamlessly expands reliable capacity for very high-resolution 35-centimeter imagery and AI-enabled analytics for customers…
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BlackSky’s Third Gen-3 Achieves Rapid Commercial Operations Three Weeks Post-Launch
BlackSky Technology successfully integrated its third Gen-3 satellite into commercial operations just three weeks following launch, reflecting an exponential increase in commissioning speed since the launch of its first Gen-3 unit. This accomplishment reflects another remarkable performance milestone as the company seamlessly expands reliable capacity for very high-resolution 35-centimeter imagery and AI-enabled analytics for customers…
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Leonardo DRS Completes First Space-Based Test of Next-Generation Secure Data Transport Technology
Leonardo DRS, announced the successful first on-orbit test of its revolutionary multi-channel software-defined radio (SDR) with integrated advanced cryptography. This milestone marks a significant advance in validating a technology poised to establish a new standard for secure U.S. military satellite data transport at the tactical edge. The eXtended Crypto Module3-Space (XCM3-Space) adapts the company’s next-generation…
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Pale Blue to Demonstrate Hall Thruster Technology with Axelspace in 2027
Pale Blue will conduct an in-orbit demonstration of its Hall thruster in 2027. The company has signed a demonstration contract with Axelspace Corporation (Axelspace), which provides in-orbit demonstration services. Pale Blue will perform an in-orbit demonstration of its instantly ignitable compact Hall thruster, the “PBH-100,” in 2027. The “PBH-100” is a thruster designed for 50-200kg…
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Europe Launches Galileo Satellites On Ariane 6
Two new first-generation Galileo satellites, numbers 33 and 34, were successfully launched aboard an Ariane 6 launcher at 06:01 (CET) Italian time from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Galileo is Europe’s global satellite navigation system, developed by the European Union with the technical and industrial support of the European Space Agency (ESA). This fourteenth…