National Space Policy
SDA Awards $1.6 Billion in Tranche 3 Tracking Layer Contracts to Rocket Lab and Northrop Grumman
As previously reported on SatNews, the Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded $3.5 Billion in contracts for a Tranche 3 Missile Tracking Constellation. On December 19, 2025 two of those agreements totaling $1.6 Billion to build and operate 36 satellites for ...
White House Issues Executive Order Prioritizing American Space Superiority
On Thursday, December 18, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order titled "Ensuring American Space Superiority," establishing a revised framework for U.S. civil, commercial, and national security space operations. The directive formalizes a timeline for returning American astronauts ...
U.S. Senate Confirms Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator
In a move that signals a paradigm shift for the future of American space exploration, the U.S. Senate has officially confirmed Jared Isaacman as the next Administrator of NASA. The confirmation marks the first time a private-sector commercial astronaut and ...
FCC Opens Review for SpaceX’s 15,000-Satellite VLEO Constellation
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Space Bureau has designated SpaceX’s modification application for a new 15,000-satellite Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) shell as "acceptable for filing," initiating the formal regulatory review period for the expanded network. According to ...
New Geopolitical Divide in Lunar Exploration.
The global space race has entered a new, accelerated phase, characterized by an increasingly defined split in long-term strategic goals and infrastructure development. This division is fundamentally driven by geopolitical alignment rather than purely scientific motivation, creating two separate power ...
AST SpaceMobile’s positive smartphone tests prove ready for Bell Canada’s connectivity
AST SpaceMobile performed well after the company ran tests for voice, video, and data over a standard smartphone. This success enables AST to partner with Bell Canada and prepares for Canadian direct-to-device distribution (D2D) of its signals. The technology goal ...
CNSA Initiates First-Ever Collision Avoidance Call with NASA at IAC 2025
By Sean Payne – SatNews Events Reporter SYDNEY, Australia — In a significant shift regarding orbital safety protocols, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) proactively contacted NASA on October 1 to coordinate a collision avoidance maneuver, marking a reversal of ...
Eutelsat and Mexico’s Multimedios Televisión renew more than 20 years satellite partnership
Eutelsat (ISIN: FR0010221234 - Euronext Paris / London Stock Exchange: ETL) announces the renewal of its multi-year partnership with Multimedios Televisión, one of Mexico’s primary free-to-air (FTA) broadcasters and part of Grupo Multimedios, the major national media conglomerate. The new ...
Forrester’s Digest: AST SpaceMobile plans 20 satellite launches this year
AST SpaceMobile, which is building a satellite-based system to provide global 5G cellular access, says it will see 20 of its powerful Block 2 satellites launched this year. The first of that number will be launched during August on nan ...
Screen Time Shock: Brits now spend 60 full days a year streaming content
In the era of infinite content, it seems Brits are having a good go at watching as much of it as possible, and Gen Z is emerging as the driving force behind it. There have never been as many streaming ...
Forrester’s Digest: More changes at Roscosmos
The revolving door at Russian space agency Roscosmos has turned again. On March 20th, Roscosmos announced the appointment of Vasily Titov to the post of General Director at subsidiary organization TsNIIMash and Vasily Marfin to lead NPO Lavochkin. Marfin previously ...
Forrester’s Digest: FCC confirms C-band spectrum thoughts
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued its note to interested parties that it is contemplating a new move as far as satellite C-band frequencies. This move is of key interest to SES and Intelsat. The FCC has issued ...
NOAA satellites capture the chilling impact of polar vortex
The new year has gotten off to a cold and snowy start with the polar vortex affecting much of the United States along with the first coast-to-coast storm of 2025. The polar vortex is a stream of cold air that ...
Soyuz safely launches NASA’s oldest American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts enroute to ISS
Photo captured on Wednesday, September 11, by Satnews from NASA's video stream. NASA's oldest astronaut, Don Pettit, launched aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, accompanied by cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, to the International Space Station where they will ...
Aldoria continues to track the Russian Luch-2 satellite as it approaches telecom satellites
Aldoria is reporting that the Russian satellite, Luch-2, continues to closely approach telecommunication satellites in GEO at an altitude of 35,780 km. Early in July, Aldoria's tracking system detected Luch-2 closely and slowly approaching a Norwegian commercial satellite, maintaining a ...
Russia wants 2,600 satellites in orbit by 2036. Is this realistic?
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Glonass satellite blasts off from the Plesetsk launch pad in northwestern Russia. (Russian Defence Ministry Press Service via AP) Russia wants have about 2,600 satellites in orbit by 2036, according to Yury Borisov, the head ...
U.S. Space Command reports break-up of Russian-owned space object
U.S. Space Command confirms the break-up of RESURS-P1 (#39186), a Russian-owned, decommissioned satellite, that occurred in LEO on June 26, 2024, at approximately 1000 MT (1600 UTC), resulting in more than 100 pieces of trackable debris. USSPACECOM has observed no ...
Russia successfully launches Angara A5 rocket on third attempt
The Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket. Roscosmos Russia successfully launched its Angara A5 space rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Thursday afternoon after two aborted liftoff attempts earlier this week. The heavy-lift rocket was initially scheduled for launch on Tuesday at ...
Russia’s two scrubs in two days of test launch of Angara-A5 space rocket
Third time is possibly the charm that Russia will try on Thursday to proceed with a test launch of its Angara-A5 space rocket in the Vostochny Angara Test Flight of Angara A5/Blok DM-03 from Khrunichev State Research and Production Space ...
ROSCOSMOS to launch Meteor-M No.2-4
Roscosmos prepares to launch the meteorological satellite Meteor-M 2-4 on a Soyuz 2.1b rocket on Wednesday, February 28 at 9:43 PST. Additionally, it will carry a total of 18 rideshare passengers hitching a ride with the main spacecraft. The launcher ...
