Startups & NewSpace Business
The Fractal Lab
Before we dream of floating data centers, we must understand why the SmallSat is the only laboratory that matters. Welcome to The Fractal Lab: a three-part series on why orbital computing succeeds or fails first at 10 kilograms, not 10,000 ...
The Space Industry’s Retention Crisis
With industry attrition climbing to 7.1% and recruitment times stretching to 10 weeks, filling critical seats has become as complex as the missions themselves. SatNews Editorial Analysis The satellite and space industry has a problem it doesn't want to talk ...
K2 Space Secures $250M Series C at $3B Valuation to Scale ‘Mega Class’ Manufacturing
TORRANCE, Calif. — Satellite manufacturer K2 Space has closed a $250 million Series C funding round, valuing the company at $3 billion as it prepares to mass-produce its "Mega Class" spacecraft. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation ...
Novaspace expands to India
Novaspace, the global consulting and market-intelligence firm dedicated to the space sector, has opened a new office in India, marking a strategic milestone in the firm’s mission to connect global expertise with one of the world’s most dynamic and fast-evolving ...
Send your Satellite Mobile Innovation Awards Nominations to MSUA before December 31st
Save the date for... the 2026 Satellite Mobile Innovation Awards Ceremony on… Tuesday, March 24, 2026… at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. MSUA looks forward to celebrating the outstanding achievements of our industry with you! Nominations ...
ABOVE rockets into DARPA’s ERIS Elite—Unlocking next-generation space defense innovations
Image of the company's scalable large aperture antennas for high power space applications Above: Space Development Corporation has achieved “Awardable” status through DARPA Expedited Research Implementation Series (ERIS) Marketplace. The ERIS Marketplace is a transformative digital platform designed to accelerate ...
Teledyne FLIR Defense opens new office in Arlington, Virginia
Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), held an opening event yesterday for its new office in the Crystal City area of Arlington, Virginia, minutes from the Pentagon. Ribbon cutting at the New Teledyne FLIR office Designed to ...
Sidus Space closes public offering
Sidus Space, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIDU) closed its previously announced best-efforts public offering of 7,143,000 shares of its Class A common stock. Each share of Class A common stock was sold at a public offering price of $1.05 per share for ...
Sidus Space announces the pricing of the company’s public offering
Sidus Space, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIDU) has announced the pricing of a best-efforts public offering of 7,143,000 shares of its Class A common stock. Each share of Class A common stock is being sold at a public offering price of $1.05 ...
Sidus Space unveils LunarLizzie™
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) has announced LunarLizzie™, the company's newest and most advanced satellite platform engineered for lunar and cislunar missions. This powerful spacecraft is expected to support payloads up to 800 kg, integrate LiDAR, hyperspectral imaging, AI powered autonomous ...
Olsen Actuators + Drives expands their space business into the U.S.
Olsen Actuators and Drives will open a branch office in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2026—located at the heart of the U.S. space industry, the new office will provide a sales base for the component firm to expand operations and tap ...
New office in Luxembourg for Neuraspace + collaboration with Luxembourg Space Agency
Neuraspace is opening a new office in Luxembourg, bringing together commercial operations, engineering teams, and production—the aim is to facilitate further partnerships and collaborations with local space industry players, the Luxembourg Space Agency and Luxembourg’s national innovation agency “Luxinnovation.” In ...
SES Space & Defense celebrates ribbon-cutting for new network ops center in Tampa
SES Space & Defense earlier this month celebrated the grand opening of the company's newly renovated, 25,000-square-foot flagship facility in Tampa, Florida—the ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by Congresswoman Kathy Castor, Mayor Jane Castor, and U.S. Department of Defense officials, marking ...
Nokia upgrades Orange Jordan’s broadband network gateway
Scale and secure your broadband edge with the Nokia Multi-Access Gateway Broadband edge. Your gateway to universal broadband Nokia and Orange Jordan have announced the successful upgrade of Orange Jordan’s Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) with Nokia’s 7750 Service Router (SR) ...
Raytheon: “It is an exciting time to be working in space”
By Chris Forrester Melinda Milani is Raytheon’s Area Director of its National and Tactical System (NTS) strategic business unit. NTS is a diverse portfolio with programs serving DoD and Intelligence customers by delivering solutions such as distributed tactical mission management, ...
Can nuclear bombs threaten satellites?
By Chris Forrester The threat of a nuclear explosion in space which affected satellites in orbit is – perhaps – too horrible to contemplate. But Dr Paul Struhsaker (CEO at Arrasar Partners) has to think the unthinkable. His roles include ...
The ‘Dream Team’ and the future for space resilience
By Chris Forrester Prof. Andy Kwas, NG Fellow at Northrop Grumman, lead and moderated a distinguished – and sparkling – and most distinguished panel (he described them as the ‘Dream Team’ of experts) which examined the future of sustained space ...
How to Blossom In a Multi-Domain World
By Chris Forrester Preston Dunlap, CEO at Arkenstone Ventures moderated the Enabling Multi-Domain Space Operations session at the Silicon Valley Space Week’s MilSat Symposium, and told delegates that “multi” had featured in almost every session at the Symposium, but that ...
Optical Data Transfer needs standards, and volume production
By Chris Forrester Chris Quilty, Co-CEO Quilty Space, explained for delegates to the Silicon Valley Space Week held at Mountain View, Calif., that optical connectivity was increasingly important and generating considerable interest in the space community. “We’ve been at this ...
INNOVATION IS KEY
By Chris Forrester The Silicon Valley Space Week (SVSW) kicked off October 21st with its Satellite Innovation 2-days of top-flight panels and keynotes. The agenda was set by the first session (‘Crafting Innovative Satellite Solutions for Customers’) when moderator Katherine Gizinski ...



















