The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded contracts to three companies to study concepts for a lunar mission to search for water ice in very low orbits.

The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite, launched last November, is now fully operational after successfully completing its critical in-orbit commissioning phase.

With all four Sentinel-1 satellites having now been deployed, this achievement marks a major milestone for this flagship radar mission – a journey that began more than a decade ago and that has helped pave the way for the future of Earth observation.

The Pentagon wants to kill a missile-warning satellite program just as its prime contractor finishes building the hardware. Northrop Grumman delivered a missile-warning sensor for the Next-Gen OPIR Polar program, days before the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2027 budget request proposed terminating the effort entirely. The timing captures something essential about how big defense programs […]

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York Space Systems will pay roughly $355 million to acquire UK-based satellite communications terminal maker All.Space, the Denver satellite manufacturer announced April 30, marking its second acquisition since going public and its most aggressive move yet to assemble a vertically integrated satcom business spanning spacecraft, ground stations, and user terminals. The deal, structured as $155 […]

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SAN FRANCISCO — SpaceComputer, a Singapore-based startup developing distributed computing infrastructure, is preparing to test its hardware and software in orbit later this year.

The Next-Generation OPIR Polar satellite procurement faces ax as Pentagon cites alternatives in low and medium Earth orbit to replace coverage

A House appropriations subcommittee advanced a spending bill April 30 that would keep overall NASA funding at 2026 levels, rejecting a 23% cut proposed by the White House.

In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Arcfield’s Kevin Kelly on how he’s thinking about AI, how he defines space superiority and what needs to happen to make […]

The United States captures just 2.1 percent of Central Asia’s critical mineral exports, while China takes 49 percent and Russia roughly 20 percent. The numbers describe a strategic position that engineering teams would call brittle: a single-supplier architecture with no redundancy, no failover, and rivals controlling both the upstream extraction and the downstream processing. For […]

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The estimated $355 million deal would make All.Space a wholly owned subsidiary of York Space