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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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BlackSky signs seven-figure SDA expansion contract with HEO for fully automated non-Earth imaging missions
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) has signed a seven-figure, Gen-2, space domain awareness (SDA) expansion contract with HEO to provide fully-automated low-latency non-Earth imaging (NEI) services for defense, intelligence and commercial use—the imagery data services deal is now moving into its ...
Exolaunch to deploy satellites for Capella Space, Pixxel + More on upcoming mission with SpaceX
Exolaunch is set to deploy satellites for its customers Capella Space, Pixxel and an undisclosed U.S. commercial customer on the upcoming NAOS mission with SpaceX, which is scheduled for launch no earlier than August 2025 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, ...
SpaceX to launch 24 smallsats in Starlink Group 17-6 on Friday from California
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will launch 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink mega constellation from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on Friday, August 2 2, from 8:44 AM ...
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus in images taken by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). This image shows the moon, designated S/2025 U1, as well as 13 of the 28 other known moons orbiting ...
Rocket Lab to launch “Live, Laugh, Launch,” on Saturday
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) a global provider of launch services and space systems, is scheduled to launch its next dedicated mission on Electron this weekend. The mission is scheduled to lift off less than three weeks after Electron’s previous ...
US Space Force prepares X-37B Mission 8 for launch
X-37B inside payload fairing before launch of eighth mission. (U.S. Space Force photo) ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) — The U.S. Space Force, in partnership with the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and SpaceX, is making final preparations to launch the eighth ...
SpaceX ready for Thursday launch of USSF-36 mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, August 21 at 11:50 p.m. ET for Falcon 9’s launch of the USSF-36 mission to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A backup launch opportunity is available at the ...
New Shepard’s 35th mission targets liftoff on Saturday, August 23, will fly more than 40 payloads to space
Blue Origin’s next New Shepard flight, NS-35, is an uncrewed mission with more than 40 scientific and research payloads onboard. This is the program’s 35th mission and will bring the total number of payloads flown on New Shepard to more ...
Get SAT equips Republic of Korea Navy aircraft with advanced SATCOM capabilities
Get SAT with KT SAT and KAI Networks have completed the upgrade of two P-3C maritime patrol aircraft for the Republic of Korea Navy. The P-3C is a maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, used for anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare ...
Samara Aerospace awarded NASA SBIR Phase I to advance breakthrough spacecraft attitude control tech
Samara Aerospace has been awarded a Phase I contract under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to advance its Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control (MSAC)—a cutting- edge technology designed to revolutionize spacecraft attitude control and jitter mitigation using intelligent, ...
