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Satnews offices will be closed on Monday, September 1st to observe the Labor Day holiday. As summer comes to a close, we hope you enjoy this day to relax. The Satnews offices will then reopen for business on Tuesday, September ...
SpaceX Starship 10 test run proves successful concluding with Starship landing “flat down in the Indian Ocean”
Starship’s tenth flight test lifted off on August 26, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. CT from Starbase, Texas, taking a significant step forward in developing the world’s first fully reusable launch vehicle.The results were a significant step forward as every major ...
SpaceX launches NAOS an EO spacecraft for Luxembourg + smallsats from sunny California
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched a new Earth-observation satellite along with several smaller spacecraft from California on Tuesday (Aug. 26). Photos captured by Satnews. NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys ...
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ESA’s Flight Ticket Initiative: first five missions secured with Avio and Isar Aerospace
The Flight Ticket Initiative is a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission for European companies and institutions to test and prove new products and applications in space. It encourages the use of new European launchers ...
Forrester’s Digest: Belgium’s Aerospacelab raises $110milion
Charleroi, Belgium-based, Aerospacelab has raised $110 million (€94.5m) of fresh cash to expand its manufacturing capacity and improve its bid for a role in IRIS², Europe’s planned highly-secure multi-orbit broadband satellite constellation. The cash-raising exercise is part of a Series ...
SpaceX schedules launch of 24 smallsats of Starlink Group 17-7 on Friday from California
Kozue Tobo is a skilled furniture craftsman who takes her inspiration from nature. Kozue believes that Starlink will be beneficial for people like her who work remotely without easy internet access, as it enables communication with the outside world. SpaceX's ...
SpaceX launches 28 smallsats of Starlink Group 10-11 from Florida
On Thursday, August 28 at 1:12 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 28 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photos captured by Satnews. Beginning to release ...
Microchip’s GNSS disciplined oscillator modules enable easy PNT tech integration
Aerospace and defense applications rely on Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT) technology for mission-critical accuracy and reliability—however, integrating PNT into a design requires extensive domain knowledge in this area. To fast track the development process, Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has ...
USGS unveils a new national geologic map
The U.S. Geological Survey has released the most detailed national-scale geologic map of the country (USA) to date, offering a unique, regional view of geology at, and beneath, the Earth’s surface. Geologic maps use different colors to show various types ...
AccelerComm joins MSSA
AccelerComm has joined the Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA), an industry group formed to further the development of Direct-to-Device (D2D) IoT, and other, advanced, Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) connectivity. MSSA—launched in February of 2024—seeks to develop a global ecosystem using L- ...
Rocket Lab to launch secretive Jake 4 customer soon
Rocket Lab's HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron) is a modified Electron rocket for suborbital hypersonic testing. It is a liquid-fueled launch vehicle designed to provide cost-effective and high-cadence testing of hypersonic technologies for the U.S. Department of Defense. The ...
SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink smallsats Group 10-11 from the Cape on Thursday
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 28 Starlink smallsats from Group 10-11 to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A live webcast of this mission will ...
AST SpaceMobile insists FM-1 satellite will ship in August
AST SpaceMobile needs to get its second-generation satellites into orbit speedily. The first of these craft, weighing some 6500 kgs, is much-delayed in its promised launch date. Now, AST insists that the satellite is ready to leave its Midland, Texas, ...
