DENVER – The job of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) is to “deliver disruptive capabilities to our warfighters faster than emerging threats,” NGA Director Lt. Gen. Michele Bredenkamp said May 6 in 2026 GEOINT Symposium keynote. Achieving that goal will require the new office to “take a lot of risk in acquisition,” […]

Agency seeks data scientists, AI specialists and quantum physicists amid surge in space-based intelligence collection

MILAN – French-led satellite operator Eutelsat and Indian maritime service provider Station Satcom have signed a multi-year agreement to expand Eutelsat-owned OneWeb LEO connectivity services across Station Satcom’s maritime fleet, the companies announced April 30. The agreement builds on a previous activation in 2025 covering hundreds of Station Satcom vessels and broadens the number of […]

Chinese commercial launch startup Nayuta Space has completed consecutive Pre-A financing rounds to support development of its unconventional Xuanniao-R rocket concept.

In 2025, Space42’s systems helped save over 660 lives across 25 distress events, from earthquakes in Myanmar, Nepal, and Turkey to cyclones in Mozambique and floods in Nigeria.

The space sector is booming. But it is also running up against limits we are only beginning to acknowledge. Like many industries, it is expanding as if resources such as materials, energy and orbital capacity were eternally abundant, when in reality all three are becoming more constrained, more contested and more expensive.

Financing includes delayed-draw facility to fund staged expansion of satellite manufacturing

Overview Energy has won a contract from the U.S. Air Force to study beaming space solar power to military installations, reviving a concept studied two decades ago.

Series A funding will support manufacturing expansion in Northern Virginia

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies, studying clusters at different stages of evolution. Their findings show that more massive star clusters emerge more quickly from the clouds they are born in, clearing away gas and filling the galaxy with ultraviolet light. The result gives us a better understanding of star formation in galaxies, as well as how and where planets can form.