Rocket Lab launches “The Nation God Navigates” to join SAR constellation for Japn
Photo by Satnews. "The Nation God Navigates” launched from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 19:51 UTC on November 5, 2025, deploying QPS-SAR-14, nicknamed YACHIHOKO-I for the Japanese god of nation-building, to a 575km circular Earth orbit ...
Three Chinese astronauts stranded at the Chinese space station as the return capsule hit by debris
Double the taikonauts makes a full house. Three Chinese astronaurs, or taikonauts, will be delayed unexpectedly on China's Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of orbital debris on Wednesday. There return date was ...
Sentinel-1D climbs to orbit via an Ariane 6
Ariane 6 launch with the Sentinel-1D satellite aboard from Europe's Spaceport The Sentinel-1 mission, which provides radar vision for the Copernicus Earth observation program, has added the on-orbit arrival in SSO of the final first generation series of satellites, the ...
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UPDATE: Scrubbed for ULA’s launch of ViaSat-3 F2 mission due to technical difficulties
The launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying the ViaSat-3 F2 mission for Viasat is scrubbed for tonight's launch attempt due to an issue encountered while cycling the booster liquid oxygen tank vent valve during final checkouts. The team ...
Starlink Group 6-81 successful launching 29 smallsats on Wednesday from the Cape
On Wednesday, November 5th at 8:31 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 29 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Photos by Satnews. This ...
Voyager acquires ExoTerra
Voyager Technologies [NYSE: VOYG] recently acquired ExoTerra Resource, a developer of electric propulsion systems. ExoTerra’s proprietary technology delivers precise maneuvering, extended lifetimes and high efficiency delta-V – essential for spacecraft across national defense architecture layers that must be able to ...
ICEYE launches Tactical Access—guaranteed satellite tasking for time-critical missions
ICEYE’s Tactical Access is the only commercial SAR service providing guaranteed imaging slots, sub-hour delivery, and sovereign in-country processing – ensuring defense and intelligence organizations receive critical imagery when and where it’s needed. ICEYE has launched their Tactical Access, a ...
Melanie Stricklan wins Women in MilSatCom Innovation Award 2025
Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG) and SAE Media Group have announced that Melanie Stricklan is the winner of the second Women in MilSatCom Innovation Award. Melanie is the co-founder of Slingshot Aerospace, Executive in Residence at Space Foundation, and Executive Director ...
GomSpace North America announces $1.5 million order from a leading global service provider
GomSpace North America, a subsidiary of GomSpace Group AB, has received a component purchase order valued at $1.5 million from a leading global service provider. The order includes advanced spacecraft subsystem components to support an upcoming satellite mission. Delivery is ...
Speedcast integrates Starlink’s global HTS into COSL Drilling’s hybrid solution
Fleet-wide upgrade includes Starlink High Throughput connectivity managed viaSpeedcast’s SIGMA intelligent edge technology Speedcast has successfully integrated and deployed Starlink’s global High Throughput Service (HTS) for offshore energy customer COSL Drilling Europe. COSL's Innovator drilling platform off the Norwegian Continental ...
Reflex Aerospace secures record €50 million Series A
Reflex Aerospace has successfully closed a €50 million Series A funding round—this funding round is the largest Series A in the European New Space sector to date. The funding, led by Human Element together with Alpine Space Ventures, Bayern Kapital, ...
Silicon Sensing test program proves IMU performance in space conditions
The research with Institute of Science, Tokyo, reveals DMU41 is well suited to LEO missions After announcing a research partnership in April of 2024, Silicon Sensing and the Institute of Science, Tokyo, have now completed a test program evaluating the ...
A universe of collaboration: IAC 2025 marks a new era in space sustainability
The global space community gathered in Sydney for the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2025), held from 29 September to 3 October 2025. .Organized by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) the world’s largest space non-profit association with more than 600 ...
