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Senate Confirms Schiess as Space Force’s Top Officer Amid Push to Match China
Read more →: Senate Confirms Schiess as Space Force’s Top Officer Amid Push to Match ChinaSchiess succeeds Gen. Chance Saltzman as the service’s top uniformed officer and a member of the Joint Chiefs…
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BlackStar Orbital Takes SPAC Deal
Read more →: BlackStar Orbital Takes SPAC DealBlackstar Orbital Technologies, a company developing a reusable spacecraft platform, plans to go public through a special purpose…
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Europe’s IRIS² Constellation Grows by 66 Satellites as Cost Climbs to 15.6 Billion Euros
Read more →: Europe’s IRIS² Constellation Grows by 66 Satellites as Cost Climbs to 15.6 Billion EurosThe European Commission selected the SpaceRISE consortium, led by satellite operators Eutelsat, Hispasat and SES, in December 2024…
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Scaleup Europe Fund Makes ICEYE Its First Bet, Signaling End to Continent’s Capital Drought
Read more →: Scaleup Europe Fund Makes ICEYE Its First Bet, Signaling End to Continent’s Capital DroughtThe Scaleup Europe Fund was announced in 2025 as part of the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy, an…
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SpaceX AI Segment Turns EBITDA Positive Two Years Ahead of Expert Forecasts
Read more →: SpaceX AI Segment Turns EBITDA Positive Two Years Ahead of Expert ForecastsSpaceX’s AI segment generated $1.15 billion in adjusted EBITDA during the second quarter of 2026, reversing a $609…
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Rocket Lab Completes 92nd Electron Launch for iQPS Earth-Imaging Constellation
Read more →: Rocket Lab Completes 92nd Electron Launch for iQPS Earth-Imaging ConstellationRocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, successfully launched the 13th Electron rocket…
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Umbra Secures Sole-Source NRO Contract for Commercial Radar Augmentation
Read more →: Umbra Secures Sole-Source NRO Contract for Commercial Radar AugmentationUmbra, an American space technology company, announced it has been awarded a sole-source contract by the National Reconnaissance…
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Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident
Read more →: Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accidentBlue Origin provided its first substantive update this week on the cause of the catastrophic loss of the…
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NASA, Northrop Grumman repurpose Gateway elements for Moon Base demo missions
Read more →: NASA, Northrop Grumman repurpose Gateway elements for Moon Base demo missionsNorthrop Grumman’s Lunar Infrastructure Demos (LID-1, LID-2 and LID-3) reuse HALO derived technologies to rapidly mature lunar surface…
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IXPE Observations of a Magnetar May Capture a 90-Year-Old Quantum Prediction
Read more →: IXPE Observations of a Magnetar May Capture a 90-Year-Old Quantum PredictionVacuum birefringence was first predicted by Werner Heisenberg in the 1930s. The idea holds that even a perfect…
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Rocket Lab Launches 92nd Electron, Deploys Eighth Satellite for Japan’s iQPS
Read more →: Rocket Lab Launches 92nd Electron, Deploys Eighth Satellite for Japan’s iQPSThe mission came more than a month after the previous launch attempt for the same customer was aborted.…
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Telesat Lands Record C$2.3 Billion Contract for Arctic Military Satcom
Read more →: Telesat Lands Record C$2.3 Billion Contract for Arctic Military SatcomThe contract commits Canada to a domestic operator for one of the most contested capability areas facing NATO.…