Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and Firefly Aerospace are moving closer to a historic first satellite launch from Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden, following a Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA) that […]
Archives for June 2025
RTX provides Blue Canyon satellite to shape future space missions
Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) launched a CubeSat in support of ARCSTONE, a NASA mission to measure lunar spectral reflectance, or the way sunlight is reflected back from the […]
New HawkEye 360 satellite cluster supports mission success for government and allied partners in complex environments
HawkEye 360 Inc. has made successful contact with its Cluster 12 satellites following their launch from New Zealand aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket— Cluster 12 was launched on June […]
Forrester’s Digest: Starlink in South Africa could still be years away
Starlink is unlikely to gain permission to operate in South Africa any time soon, according to a local communications sector expert. Dominic Cull, a regulatory expert at communications sector legal […]
Rocket Lab’s 67th Electron launch was for HawkEye360’s mission “Get The Hawk Outta Here”, then “Symphony In The Stars” to launch in 48 Hours
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a provider in launch services and space systems, launched its 67th Electron rocket on a dedicated launch for radio frequency geospatial analytics provider HawkEye 360. […]
AST SpaceMobile + Fairwinds Technologies demo world’s 1st tactical NTN connectivity over standard mobile devices
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) has successfully demo’d the world’s first Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) tactical satellite communications delivering high-throughput data, voice, and video using unmodified mobile devices in collaboration with […]
Northrop Grumman tests most powerful segmented solid rocket booster ever built
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) conducted a full-scale static fire of NASA’s Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket booster—this was the first demonstration test of the enhanced, five-segment, […]
Vodafone IoT expands ‘Internet in the Car’ service to Slovakia making it the largest European provider of in-car connectivity services
Vodafone IoT announces the expansion of its ‘Internet in the Car’ service to Slovakia, extending the number of countries where motor manufacturers can offer vehicles with reliable, secure and complaint […]
GomSpace signs a 19.5 million euros contract with a European based company
GomSpace has signed a 19.5 million euros contract with a European-based, privately held, venture-funded technology company focused on deploying a next-generation satellite network. The customer—positioned as a disruptor in space-based […]
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches Axiom Space’s astronauts on Axiom Mission 4 enroute to ISS
On Wednesday, June 25 at 2:31 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched Axiom Space’s Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy […]