Tag: Launch
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Magellan Aerospace Expands Space Services with Satellite Integration and Test Capabilities
Magellan Aerospace, a global aerospace company with more than six decades of experience in aerospace and space systems, highlights the expanding space services offerings that support satellite missions from early development through to final testing and qualification. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Magellan Aerospace provides mission-adapted services that integrate advanced engineering, state-of-the-art facilities and deep domain…
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Stoke Space Extends $860 Million Series D Financing
Stoke Space Technologies, the rocket company developing fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift launch vehicles, announced an extension of its previous Series D financing, bringing the total amount raised in the round to $860 million. The round was initially announced in October 2025 at $510 million. That funding focused on completing activation of Launch Complex 14…
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VORAGO and wolfSSL Partner for Space Cybersecurity and Radiation Shielding at SmallSat 2026
VORAGO Technologies, a radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant chip provider for space applications, announced a software partnership with wolfSSL, a company specializing in embedded cryptography for secure systems successfully for the last 20 years, at SmallSat Symposium 2026. This unique partnership delivers radiation-hardened chips with built-in, standards-based cryptographic security for orbital missions, designed for scale from the…
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Isar Aerospace Advances Europe’s Launch Capabilities with the Spectrum Launch Vehicle
Isar Aerospace continues to strengthen Europe’s access to space through the development of Spectrum, the two-stage orbital launch vehicle designed to deliver small and medium satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). As a privately funded European launch company headquartered in Ottobrunn, Germany, Isar Aerospace is focused on providing flexible, reliable and cost-efficient launch services to…
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Infleqtion and NASA to Fly the World’s First Quantum Gravity Sensor to Space
Infleqtion, a global leader in quantum sensing and quantum computing powered by neutral-atom technology, announced its role as a collaborator on NASA’s Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder (QGGPf) mission. Led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the mission will fly the first quantum sensor capable of measuring the Earth’s gravitational field and its gradients; signals that…
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NRO Expands Multi-Phenomenology Remote Sensing Solutions
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) announced the first tranche of three awards under its Strategic Commercial Enhancements Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) for advanced commercial remote sensing capabilities. This innovative acquisition approach marks NRO’s shift to multi-phenomenology solutions, including electrooptical (EO), hyperspectral imaging (HSI), radar, radio frequency (RF), and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), to deliver…
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AST SpaceMobile Successfully Completes Unfolding of BlueBird 6
AST SpaceMobile, the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, designed for both commercial and government applications, announced the successful unfolding of its next-generation BlueBird 6 satellite. BlueBird 6 features the largest commercial communications array antenna ever deployed in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Spanning approximately 2,400 square feet,…
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Starlab Space Partners with Auxilium to Advance In-Orbit 3D Bioprinting and Biofabrication
Starlab Space LLC, the commercial space station developer expanding access to low Earth orbit research, announced a partnership with Auxilium Biotechnologies. This agreement represents a significant advancement in 3D bioprinting and biofabrication in orbit and underscores Starlab’s commitment to growing scientific discovery beyond the limits of Earth. Auxilium will provide orbital 3D bioprinting and biofabrication…
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Azenta Life Sciences Partners with Frontier Space to Advance Space-Based Life Sciences Research
Azenta announced a strategic partnership with Frontier Space, a pioneer in commercial space-based research systems, to conduct cutting-edge scientific experiments in space. This collaboration aims to harness the unique benefits of the microgravity environment to accelerate discovery and innovation in life sciences, including participation in the recently launched EGGS-2 (Early Gen micro-Gravity Service) mission, developed…
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Thales Alenia Signs Contract with OHB to Provide the Propulsion Subsystem for LISA
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a € 16.5 m contract with prime contractor OHB System AG to provide the Propulsion Subsystem for European Space Agency‘s LISA- mission. LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves. In the UK, Thales…