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CesiumAstro is acquiring semiconductor specialist Jariet Technologies, adding more in-house capabilities behind the phased-array antenna specialist’s plans for a future communications constellation.

Amazon Leo, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab and York Space will prototype and test connections to the SpaceX-built data network backbone

In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with John Mackey, CEO, co-founder and director of Mbryonics.

Northrop Grumman HALO module

A subcontractor for a module that was being developed for NASA’s lunar Gateway has laid off 70 people after NASA halted work on the program.

Hera departing Earth

First the European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission separated from its launcher on 7 October 2024, next its lengthy ‘cruise phase’ began – the car-sized spacecraft’s journey through millions of kilometres of nothingness to converge on its rocky destination. 

The spacecraft is designed to inspect, track and maneuver around satellites in geostationary orbit

Video: 00:00:04

Yesterday between 20:26 and 20:34 CEST, parts of the Iberian peninsula experienced a total solar eclipse. This animation, composed of images from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I1), caught the Moon’s dark shadow as it passed over Earth’s surface – converging with the advancing twilight shadow as dusk fell over Europe.

From its vantage point in geostationary orbit, MTG-I1 keeps its imaging instruments focused on Europe and northern Africa from a distance of 36 000 km above Earth’s surface. This enabled it to track the Moon’s shadow, called the path of totality, as it swept first

Virgin Galactic spaceplane

Virgin Galactic says it will not start commercial flights of its new suborbital spaceplane until early 2027, a delay of a few months.

A $28 million contract expansion adds Victus Salo 2 and 3 to an earlier award for responsive-space missions

Startups are bringing software, robotics and manufacturing methods developed around commercial space into a defense industry under pressure to produce weapons faster

Gen. Stephen Whiting said there is a demand for offensive capabilities and called on the industry to develop ways to disable the critical nodes of large satellite constellations

The Golden Dome ‘ecosystem hub’ allows companies to request information and submit ideas

HELSINKI — Chinese reusable launch vehicle maker has secured a first batch of series E funding, months after a huge D++ round, with fundraising still ongoing.

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