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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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Intuition-1 satellite plays games and captures the world from orbit
Engineers from Gliwice, Poland, carried out an unusual experiment on board their Intuition-1 satellite—using the Leopard Data Processing Unit, they successfully launched the 1993 classic game Doom in space. Meanwhile, the Polish satellite continued to deliver new hyperspectral images from ...
Heliospace’s successful in-flight use of its radar antennas aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper
Heliospace Corp. (OTC:HLEO) has announced a significant milestone with the successful in-flight operation of its radar antennas aboard the NASA Europa Clipper spacecraft during a high-profile Mars flyby conducted on March 1, 2025. Heliospace designed, assembled, tested, and delivered these ...
Samara Aerospace delivers “Cicada” payload to Impulse Space for 1st in-space validation of MSAC technology
Highlight: Samara’s Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC) Samara Aerospace has delivered its first flight payload, Cicada, to Impulse Space, marking a significant milestone in the company’s path toward operational spaceflight heritage. The hardware, comprised of four of Samara’s proprietary ...
Forrester’s Digest: Putin wants to increase size of satellite fleet
Russian news agency Interfax reports that the size of RussiaRussia’s operating satellite constellation should be increased drastically, but Russian President Vladimir Putin said believes the cost of space launches should decline. “As part of such close cooperation between the state ...
TI semiconductors enable advanced Earth-observation capabilities of ISRO’s first-of-its-kind NISAR mission
Texas Instruments (TI) semiconductors are enabling the radar imaging and scientific exploration payloads for the NASA-Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) synthetic aperture radar (NISAR) satellite, which was recently launched into orbit. The launch of the satellite culminates a decade-long partnership ...
Forrester’s Digest: UK Space Agency absorbed by British government
The move by the UK government to shift the UK Space Agency into its Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has been described as both good news, and bad, for the UK space sector. The UK Space Agency (UKSA) ...
Alaska Airlines launches new era of connectivity with Starlink, the fastest Wi-Fi in the sky
Alaska Airlines will launch an upgrade to their inflight experience: the fastest, most reliable Wi-Fi in the sky on every flight. Starting in 2026, Alaska guests will be able to use Starlink Wi-Fi with ultra-fast speeds and lower latency to ...
Australia and New Zealand expand SouthPAN program with Viasat through AUD252 million award for additional satellite services
Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has received an AUD252 million award from Geoscience Australia (GA) and Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) to deliver additional satellite services for the region’s world-class Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN). SouthPAN early Open ...
C-COM receives U.S. patent for Ka-Band Phased-Array Antenna in Package technology
C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI and OTCQB: CYSNF) has been granted U.S. patent No.:12,381,318 B2 for the firm's invention of a Ka-band 2D Phased-Array Antenna in Package. This is the 12th patent C-COM has been granted and is the ...
Mercury signs hardware production agreement with AeroVironment to support USSF’s SCAR program
Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) has a new production agreement with AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (NASDAQ: AVAV) to support the U.S. Space Force’s Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource (SCAR) program. AV was awarded the $1.4 billion SCAR contract in 2022 by the ...
