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SpaceX surpasses 2024 orbital launch record with Saturday Starlink mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flies away from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 11-12 mission on Oct. 25, 2025. Image: SpaceX Update Oct. 25, 11:35 a.m. EDT (1535 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 28 Starlink satellites. SpaceX kicked off the weekend with a Falcon 9…
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Arqiva Renews UK/Ireland Satellite Broadcast Contract with SES
SES has inked new capacity deal with Arqiva. It is a multi-year, multi-million contract renewal for satellite capacity on SES’s prime video neighborhood of 28.2 degrees East. The two companies announced the deal, Oct. 23. SES’s satellites operating at the 28.2 degrees East orbit deliver a range of TV channels to over 10 million TV…
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Starbase Pad 1 ends an era, enters preparations for the next phase
After 11 Flights and many tests, the booster test stand turned launch mount has reached the end of its life. Pad 1 propelled the Starship program through the early years and now moves towards the new phase of operations. Start of Construction and First Testing Construction on Pad 1 began around July 2020, when crews…
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Airbus, Leonardo and Thales agree to form new European company
Technicians with the European Space Agency and Airbus/Airbus Netherlands are shown performing an illumination test on one of the solar array wing panels during installation on the Orion spacecraft for Artemis I inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 30, 2020. The solar…
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ABB Wins Canadian Space Agency Environmental Monitoring Contract
ABB, a Swedish tech company, has won a contract from the Canadian Space Agency to carry out the conceptual development (Phase A) of the Thin Ice Clouds and Far InfraRed Emissions (TICFIRE) instrument. It will be a component of the High-altitude Aerosols, Water Vapor and Clouds (HAWC) satellite mission – a Canadian-led initiative focused on…
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Satellite shows what’s really happening at the East Wing of the White House
You need to go up—way up—to fully appreciate the changes underway at the White House this week. Demolition crews starting tearing down the East Wing of the presidential mansion Tuesday to clear room for the construction of a new $300 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom, a recent priority of President Donald Trump. The teardown drew criticism and…
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SpaceX Launches Spain’s NG 2 Satellite to Orbit on a Veteran Falcon 9 Rocket
SpaceX successfully launched the SpainSat NG 2 satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket late Thursday evening from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral U.S. Space Force Station in Florida. The Airbus-built SpainSat NG 2 satellite, built for the Spanish Ministry of Defense and Spanish operator Hisdesat, was delivered to geosynchronous transfer orbit for…
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Kratos Awarded $68.3 Million Contract to Build Next-Gen Hypersonic Materials Testing Centre
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, a technology company in defense, national security, and global markets, announced that it has been awarded a contract through the Department of War’s Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program to design and build a state-of-the-art mid-tier arc jet and coupled fiber laser facility for hypersonic materials evaluation. Known internally to…
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Iceye Strengthens Position in Central Europe with New Slovakian Partner
Iceye is strengthening its position in central and Eastern Europe. It is forming a strategic partnership with EMIS, a provider of geospatial information systems in Slovakia, to expand access to critical, near real-time hazard information for Slovak authorities. The two companies announced the partnership, Oct. 23. Slovakia has a population of around 5.5 million people.…
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ispace and OrbitAID Signs Strategic Alliance to Advance Sustainable Lunar Missions
ispace, a global lunar exploration company, and OrbitAID Aerospace Private Limited (OrbitAID), India’s first on-orbit refueling company, announced a strategic partnership via a memorandum of understanding aimed at advancing sustainable lunar exploration and establishing long-term lunar operations. As part of the collaboration, OrbitAID plans to demonstrate its Standardized Interface for Docking and Refueling Payload (SIDRP)…