The Senate Commerce Committee advanced the nomination of Neil Jacobs to lead NOAA as that agency’s top satellite official remains on administrative leave.
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The acting administrator of NASA will meet with his Russian counterpart in the first face-to-face meeting between agency heads in several years.
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In this bonus edition of Space Minds, host David Ariosto moderates the panel "Mission to Market: The Evolution of CLPS" at the AIAA Ascend conference.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Kongsberg Satellite Services and Amazon Web Services are expanding their alliance to speed up the flow of satellite data to customers. KSAT announced plans July 30 to integrate AWS Ground Station capabilities into its network, which will include more than 200 antennas at 40 locations around the world. “That can really minimize […]
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China launched a sixth batch of Guowang megaconstellation satellites Wednesday, with a Long March 8A rocket launch from Hainan.
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It can be said with certainty that a lot went into Operation Midnight Hammer. The June 22 precision strike on Iranian strategic weapons production facilities was an airtight operation conducted with great execution, coordination and timing by the United States Air Force and the Navy. B-2 bombers dropped 14 Massive Ordnance Penetrator “bunker-buster” bombs on […]
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An Indian rocket placed into orbit a billion-dollar Earth science mission jointly developed by NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO.
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The first flight of an orbital rocket developed by an Australian company ended seconds after liftoff July 29 when the rocket crashed near its launch pad.
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NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace for a fourth lunar lander mission, this one taking rovers and instruments to the south polar region of the moon.
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Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Viasat, Intelsat and Astranis will receive a combined $37.2 million under six-month contracts
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Colorado Springs, CO — July 29, 2025 — Frontgrade Technologies, a leading provider of high-reliability electronic solutions for space and national security missions, has launched its operationally resilient SpaceStor™ Mass […]
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Colorado Springs, CO — July 29, 2025 — Frontgrade Technologies, a leading provider of high-reliability electronic solutions for space and national security missions, has released the SBC-2A72 VNX+ Single Board […]
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Chinese launch startup iSpace successfully sent a satellite into orbit early Tuesday with a solid fueled rocket mission a year after its previous launch failed.
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The Canadian Space Agency awarded initial study contracts July 29 for a lunar utility rover as part of the country’s push to deepen its role in the U.S.-led Artemis program.
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The technology can simulate adversary spacecraft behaviors in physics-accurate orbital environments
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NASA has paused plans to procure a set of ground stations intended to reduce the burden on the agency’s Deep Space Network, citing uncertain budgets.
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Leanspace, a European satellite operations technology provider, today announced that Qwaltec, a US-based defense contractor and leading provider of turnkey solutions and engineering services, has joined its growing partner ecosystem […]
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SAN FRANCISCO – More than 4,000 people from 45 countries have signed up to attend the Small Satellite Conference at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City Aug. 10-13. After 38 years in Logan, Utah, SmallSat is moving to Salt Lake City because the convention center and surrounding hotels can accommodate thousands of […]
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A House appropriations bill provides funding for a civil space traffic coordination system but wants changes to increase its reliance on the Defense Department.
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OTV-8 will test technologies for GPS-denied navigation and space network integration
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SAN FRANCISCO – EraDrive, a Stanford spinoff, won a $1 million NASA contract to detect, identify and track space objects. It was the first contract for the Palo Alto, California, startup founded earlier this year by Space Rendezvous Laboratory (SLAB) director Simone D’Amico, Justin Kruger, SLAB postdoctoral fellow, and Sumant Sharma, a SLAB alum and […]
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The stratosphere is no longer empty. High-altitude platform and suborbital spaceplane operations are booming, yet our management of “near-space” remains stuck in the last century. We cannot afford to postpone solutions until after a catastrophe. Instead, we must embed new approaches now! High-altitude platforms (HAPs), like stratospheric balloons, solar-powered drones and airships and suborbital space […]
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China launched new Guowang satellites Sunday, expanding its LEO broadband network as part of a growing effort to build a sovereign space internet.
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The company is now targeting ~10 missions this year, down from ambitious 20-launch projection made in 2024
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