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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A Vega C rocket successfully launched five imaging and Earth science spacecraft late July 25.

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Nearly 4,000 NASA employees, accounting for about one fifth of the agency’s workforce, have chosen to leave the agency through various voluntary processes

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The head of the satellite division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been placed on administrative leave for undisclosed reasons.

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In this bonus edition of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Robyn Gatens, NASA's Director for the International Space Station, live at the AIAA Ascend conference in Las Vegas on the status of the International Space Station, its planned decommissioning by 2030 and the expected follow-on commercial space stations.

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Blue Origin will fly the first mission of its Blue Ring spacecraft next spring carrying a space situational awareness payload from Scout Space.

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Senegal is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, a move that some believe could help the United States blunt growing Chinese influence in Africa.

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Industry officials issued a stark warning that proposed NASA budget cuts to the International Space Station could jeopardize both the operation of the station and the transition to commercial stations.

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LONDON — United Kingdom-based space surveillance company Spaceflux hopes to introduce a catalog of space objects next year, one that could rival data kept by the United States Space Force and provide satellite conjunction warnings if Europe’s relations with the U.S. were to deteriorate in the future. The company, which launched in 2022 is developing […]

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