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WENCHANG, China — In a definitive move that accelerates the deployment of its sovereign Low Earth Orbit (LEO) infrastructure, China successfully executed the maiden launch of the Long March 12 (LM-12) carrier rocket on Friday, December 12. Lifting off at ...

Chris Forrester — An Arianespace cargo ship, the spectacular hybrid Canopée (wind and fuel), is this week making the final rounds off the French coast picking up various elements of its next rocket ahead of the VA267 launch on a ...

When Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle lifted off from the Mahia Peninsula, carrying the "RAISE and Shine" satellite for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the mission profile appeared standard on paper. However, the successful orbital insertion of the "RAISE-4" (RApid ...

Visualization of the INNOSPACE launch LONDON — Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has been selected by South Korean launch provider INNOSPACE (KS: 462350) to provide telemetry services for the company’s upcoming HANBIT-Nano mission. Scheduled for launch later in December 2025, the ...

A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying the 14th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 6, 2025. SatNews December 9, 2025 — Deploying assets ranging from the ...

SatNews December 9, 2025 — Rocket Lab has completed qualification testing for the Neutron launch vehicle’s "Hungry Hippo" fairing, a critical structural validation that clears the way for the medium-lift rocket’s inaugural flight. Announced December 8, the milestone signals the ...

Beijing, China – Chinese commercial launch provider Landspace has confirmed that its ambitious attempt to vertically land the first stage of the Zhuque-3 methane-liquid oxygen rocket resulted in a catastrophic failure, despite achieving a successful orbital insertion. The mission began ...

Korean Air and Hyundai Rotem have launched a joint initiative to develop a reusable, 35-ton-class methane rocket engine, identified as a core technology for next-generation launch vehicles. Backed by a KRW 49 billion budget and overseen by the Korea Research ...

Paris, France – ArianeGroup announced the successful first flight of its new flight test system, SyLEx (Système de Lancement d'Expériences, or Experiment Launch System), on November 28, 2025. The launch was operated by the French Defence Procurement and Technology Agency's ...

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), is building the only space-based cellular broadband network designed for both commercial and government applications that is accessible directly by standard smartphones. The BlueBird 6, a U.S. licensed satellite, is scheduled to launch on December ...

HANBIT-Nano during successful WDR conducted on November 18–19 (BRT)  INNOSPACE (KS:462350), a South Korean satellite launch service company, has adjusted the scheduled launch date of its first commercial launch, SPACEWARD, from November 22 to December 17 (BRT). The decision follows the ...

Rocket launch photo courtesy of Honda Japan's second-biggest carmaker Honda has successfully tested an experimental reusable rocket, the company said, as it seeks to expand into the space sector. Honda, which hopes to develop the tech prowess for a suborbital ...

The second of the Meteosat Third Generation satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission have arrived at Cape Canaveral harbor in the United States. Artistic rendition of the MTG-3 Sounder satellite, courtesy of the company The Sentinel-4 ...

Almagest Space Corporation has announced the successful launch and deployment of ELEVATION-1, a demonstration satellite carrying the world’s first E-band communications payload with the foundational technology for Almagest to develop innovative, high performance, bulk data solutions. ELEVATION-1 was launched, with ...

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for project establishment to create a basic capability for satellite launches from SSC’s Esrange Space Center. “This is an important step in our effort to ...

Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat, which already has some 654 of its OneWeb satellites in low Earth orbit, is ordering another 100 satellites from Airbus Defence & Space. The new satellites will be built at the Airbus plant in Toulouse, and ...

Launch on Friday, October 18 of Starlink smallsats captured by Satnews from SpaceX's video stream. On Friday, October 18 at 7:13 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 20 Starlink Group 8-19 satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth ...

SpaceForest is developing a new, commercial, single-stage European sounding rocket offering almost four minutes of microgravity experimentation time — the 11.5 meter tall rocket will be able to launch 50 kg up to 150 km in altitude, while also stabilizing ...

The Chinese launch of Shijian-19 As reported by Liu Zhen of the South China Morning Post, China on Friday successfully launched the nation's first reusable satellite in a mission that aims to make progress in seed science, microgravity research and ...

TEHRAN, Jul. 23 (MNA) – The Iranian "Hod Hod" and "Kosar" satellites are scheduled to be launched into Low Earth Orbit from a Russian station The Iranian Space Agency (ISA) is planning to launch two new satellites into a low ...