UPDATE: Blue Origin scrubs New Glenn mission to carry EscaPADE to Mars due to extreme solar storms now on for Thursday
New Glenn on the launch pad at LC-36 ahead of the NG-2 mission. (November 8, 2025) Blue Origin's second flight of New Glenn launch vehicle carrying the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE), a dual-spacecraft mission with University ...
NASA ready with dual mission from Andøya Space
Two sub-orbital rockets from NASA Wallops have been installed on the pads at Andøya Space, ready for their launch campaign. Suborbital rockets on pads Kolbjørn Blix, VP Sub-Orbital at Andøya Space, said, “I must admit that I am especially proud ...
ESA selects Kongsberg NanoAvionics to build spacecraft for the ESA-EC “IOD/IOV” program
ESA, through its European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), has selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) to build a large CubeSat platform for its in-orbit demonstration/in-orbit validation (IOD/IOV) program. Under the project name IHE1-5 CubeSat, NanoAvionics will build a 12 to ...
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Star Catcher + Intuitive Machines demo power beaming for extended Lunar surface operations
Power beaming demo at Kennedy Space Center The lunar South Pole has drawn sustained attention from scientists, space agencies, and commercial innovators due to its potential reserves of water ice and its strategic value for long-term exploration. Deep craters remain ...
Intuitive machines + Texas A&M Space Institute accelerate lunar mission readiness
Testing the operational readiness of lunar terrain vehicles has been challenging because Earth-based environments such as rocky desert beds or confined test areas filled with small amounts of synthetic regolith lack the scale and adaptability to truly replicate the Moon’s ...
UPDATE: ULA’s ViaSat-3 F2 mission ready to try again on Thursday after replacing valve
The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying the ViaSat-3 F2 mission for Viasat is now planned for no earlier than Thursday, November 13, 2025. To ensure compliance with the recent FAA order regarding launch times, the launch ...
Thai Airways becomes 1st global airline to line-fit Neo Space Group’s IFC Solution on their Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet
Neo Space Group (NSG) and Thai Airways (THAI) have announced that NSG Skywaves®—the Group’s advanced, in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution, will be line-fit on all of THAI’s new fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Through this agreement, Thai Airways will equip ...
Avanti Communications announces strategic partnership with Türksat to bridge connectivity gaps in South Africa
Avanti Communications has announced a strategic partnership with Türksat—this collaboration marks a significant milestone in Avanti’s mission to extend high-quality connectivity solutions across Africa, with a special focus on underserved regions in Southern Africa. Artistic rendition of the Türksat 5B ...
AST SpaceMobile comments on launch delays
BlueWalker-3 has a 64-square-meter antenna, the largest deployed commercially in low Earth orbit. Credit: AST SpaceMobile Commercial launches are now delayed by at least six months from the original timeline. The company has a launch scheduled for a prototype satellite ...
Voyager + Infleqtion partner to launch quantum era in space
Voyager Technologies, Inc. [NYSE: VOYG] and Infleqtion have announced a strategic partnership to advance dual-use quantum technology in LEO and beyond—this collaboration marks a major milestone in the growing convergence of the quantum and aerospace industries and follows Infleqtion’s plans ...
U-Space closes a 24 million euros series A to expand into the global smallsat constellation market
After an initial €7 million funding round in 2022, the French small satellite manufacturer U-Space has announced a new €24 million Series A round led by Blast, the French Ministry of Armed Forces’ Definvest fund managed by Bpifrance, and Expansion, ...
Qorvo delivers wideband SSPAs as reliable TWTA replacement with smaller system footprint
Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO) has introduced four, wideband, solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs) for radar, SATCOM, electronic warfare (EW) and test applications. Qorvo’s newest SSPAs enable up to 50 percent smaller and one-third lighter system-level solutions compared to legacy traveling wave tube ...
Space Ocean + Enduralock sign LOI to standardize docking interface for in-space fluid delivery + logistics
Space Ocean Corp. has approved a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Enduralock that outlines a non-binding strategic collaboration between the firms to integrate Enduralock’s OneLink™ docking interface into future Space Ocean platforms as a standardized on-orbit connection for fluid, data ...
