Government-backed lunar missions are helping companies identify customers for future flights.

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Company’s latest component provides increased momentum for larger payloads LAFAYETTE, Colo. (April 7, 2025) — RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies, introduces its […]

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GomSpace, a Danish smallsat maker, announced plans April 8 to integrate space traffic management tools from Portugal’s Neuraspace into its satellite operations platform to help avoid collisions in increasingly congested orbits.

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The first nine missions are worth $1.27 billion in contracts

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The company was selected for a public-private agreement known as Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI)

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When has anything to do with space ever stayed the same? Satellites are smaller, launches are more frequent, capabilities are more advanced, threats are more real. At Space Systems Command, […]

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Colorado Springs — L3Harris Technologies is preparing to modernize the development, production and testing of weather satellite instruments in a new 9,290-square-meter facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “The new facility […]

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NASA is developing options for restructuring and potentially downsizing the agency, with the final decisions to be left to the agency’s next leader.

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Saltzman: “Just flying a military satellite communication system today doesn’t prepare you for the high-end fight"

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Despite political uncertainty about the future of NASA’s overall effort to return humans to the moon, the hardware for the next Artemis mission continues to […]

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COLORADO SPRINGS – Aitech Systems, a California company known for military and aerospace electronics, revealed plans for a picosatellite that will be used for artificial-intelligence applications. The company announced the […]

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Colorado Springs — Change is underway at Boeing Space Mission Systems. To meet growing demand, the veteran satellite manufacturer is creating hot production lines to accelerate deliveries and investing in […]

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Geopolitical shifts are accelerating the push for sovereign satellite networks, fueling momentum for connectivity operators outside the United States. Multi-orbit providers and regional players anticipate a surge in demand as […]

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For decades, military communications from space relied primarily on geostationary satellites positioned 22,000 miles above Earth. These distant spacecraft provide secure, reliable voice and data connectivity for United States defense […]

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Colorado Springs, CO – April 8, 2025 – Bluestaq, a leader in highly secure data management, is accelerating its global expansion with the launch of a UK subsidiary (March 2025) […]

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The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to update decades-old satellite power limits amid broader efforts to modernize and streamline regulations, the new head of the U.S. agency’s space division said April 7.

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Geostationary operator Viasat has signed a contract to use the low Earth orbit constellation Telesat plans to start deploying next year to help counter competition from SpaceX’s satellites in LEO.

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This week we're at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs where we'll record an episode Monday through Thursday. Our guest today is Krystal Azelton, Senior Director of Program Planning at Secure World Foundation.

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The global space industry’s largest annual conference is happening April 7-10 at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado Symposium coverage sponsor

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This marks the second time in recent months that the Space Force has reassigned a GPS launch from ULA to SpaceX.

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Axiom Space will fly two data centers on Kepler Communications satellites as the next step of its efforts to develop space-based cloud computing services.

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Fibertek proudly celebrates the achievement of 2 trillion laser shots fired from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite in March 2025, marking more than six years of continuous, high-performance operation on orbit. This […]

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Millennium Space to deliver eight satellites in 2026 as Pentagon accelerates push on missile defense

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TAMPA, Fla. — British component maker Olsen Actuators and Drives announced plans April 7 to open an office at Cape Canaveral to chase growing demand in the U.S. space industry.

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For most, satellite connectivity means ensuring that people everywhere have access to telecommunications, data and the internet. Connecting this way is a noble goal, and innovators are finding new approaches […]

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The new system dubbed "Scout" is a portable version of the company's established fixed-site radar infrastructure.

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As Arianespace wrapped up the webcast of the March 6 launch of the CSO-3 French reconnaissance satellite on an Ariane 6 rocket, the broadcast aired a recorded message from Philippe […]

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Was it Robert Heinlein, author of Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, who said that “everything was theoretically possible till it was done”? Whoever […]

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Some NASA Earth science missions have been told to prepare termination plans given the potential for major budget cuts in the agency’s overall science activities.

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China’s construction of a pair of communications megaconstellations could cloud low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages for decades or beyond, according to analysts.

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Humans have excellent vision. Compared to most animals, they can see longer distances with more colors and finer details. But the eyes that evolved to help humankind survive and thrive […]

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A startup taking an alternative approach to space-based solar power has raised $50 million as it works towards a first demonstration mission next year.

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A conference later this month will explore space-interception concepts, with particular interest in boost-phase capabilities.

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NASA’s latest call for proposals for private astronaut missions to the space station opens the door to having those missions commanded by someone other than a former NASA astronaut.

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Space companies joined heavy stock market declines across the board as governments started responding to sweeping U.S. tariffs across dozens of countries.

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The contracts, announced April 4 by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, are part of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 2 procurement

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A Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the California coast April 4, wrapping up a three-and-a-half-day private astronaut mission in polar orbit.

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On January 27, President Trump ordered the Pentagon to develop “a reference architecture, capabilities-based requirements, and an implementation plan for the next-generation missile defense shield,” which, inspired by Israel’s Iron […]

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A small spacecraft earlier this year successfully demonstrated edge autonomy — or the capability of a satellite to analyze data and make decisions independently without waiting for instructions from ground […]

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China's space ambitions raise concerns at U.S. commission hearing

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