Maxar executive Susanne Hake pressed the case that commercial firms can deliver faster and for less cost than bespoke government satellites, but need predictable funding and contracts to keep investing

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China conducted a rocket stage hot fire test Friday in the latest step in the country’s plans to land astronauts on the moon.

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The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 and 2000. Many were the product of NASA and industry study teams, while others were the work of committed individuals or […]

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Satellite manufacturer Apex has raised $200 million in a new funding round that values the company at more than $1 billion.

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Cailabs, a French company that manufactures optical ground stations for satellite communications, has raised 57 million euros ($67 million) to scale up production.

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CEO Jason Kim said the company’s Alpha vehicle could launch test targets while the Elytra platform could host interceptors for the Golden Dome missile-defense shield

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PARIS – Mobile edge computing specialist Armada and Sophia Space are working together to establish integrated, scalable compute infrastructure extending from Earth to space. By connecting terrestrial and orbital edge processors, the partners intend to “create a seamless edge-computing network that connects remote locations on Earth with computing resources in space,” according to the Sept. […]

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In this week’s episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss is joined by SpaceNews senior writer Jeff Foust to break down the surprising appointment of Sean Duffy as NASA’s Acting Administrator.

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House appropriators offered support, but no specific funding, for several NASA missions slated for cancellation in the administration’s 2026 budget proposal.

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Eutelsat has teamed up with French satellite connectivity startup Skynopy to explore offering Earth observation operators spare capacity on the ground stations used for OneWeb, its LEO broadband service.

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Scientists have found potential evidence of past life on Mars in a rock sample collected by a NASA rover, even as a proposed budget cancels plans to return those samples.

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The first 3D-printed arrays will be deployed on small satellites built by Millennium Space

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A startup has raised an initial round of funding to commercialize a technology that could create large structures in orbit.

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The satellites, made by York Space Systems, make up the first plane of a mesh network projected to have 126 spacecraft

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“The Space Force we have is not the Space Force we need” —Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations The United States and our allies have never been more dependent on space-based capabilities. Every other military service depends on capabilities from space to do their jobs. A loss of space capability would have a […]

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Japan’s IHI is broadening its push to build a sovereign Earth observation constellation, partnering with U.K.-based SatVu to explore adding thermal imaging satellites alongside radar and other sensors already in the works.

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SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk says he is confident that Starship can start delivering 100 tons of payload to orbit next year while reusing both stages.

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Why do people defend someone who has done things that are frankly terrible?

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A European-led mission to the asteroid Apophis is on schedule ahead of key funding decisions in the coming months in both Europe and Japan.

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The inclusion of a 30-day demonstration mission in revised plans by NASA to support development of commercial space stations does not represent a permanent shift to shorter missions.

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The system, known as Soldier-Borne Mission Command Architecture (SBMC-A), is being developed by defense contractor Anduril Industries.

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The FCC has dropped investigations into EchoStar as the satellite operator moves to sell spectrum to SpaceX and AT&T in deals totalling more than $40 billion.

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The chief executive of Airbus says he is still “very committed” to combining his company’s space business with those of two other European firms.

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Memorial spaceflights have grown from novelty to a modest and steady business, one that’s carried thousands of loved ones to orbit over the past three decades. Now, a startup founded by a former Blue Origin engineer aims to harness the space industry’s latest advances to take the market mainstream.

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