CEO Series: Arcfield’s Kevin Kelly on making Golden Dome a success.
Thursday, 30 April 2026 13:20
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 […]
This Month at ESA: April 2026
Thursday, 30 April 2026 13:00
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What did space deliver for Europe this month? From the Moon to low Earth orbit and beyond, here’s what the European Space Agency has been up to.
The Central Asia Gap: How America Lost the Upstream of Its Critical Mineral Supply Chain
Thursday, 30 April 2026 12:40
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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York Space to buy satcom terminal manufacturer All.Space
Thursday, 30 April 2026 12:00
The estimated $355 million deal would make All.Space a wholly owned subsidiary of York Space
Planet and Carbon Mapper to fly SWIR Tanager
Thursday, 30 April 2026 12:00
SAN FRANCISCO – Planet is developing a new version of its Tanager spacecraft with enhanced capability to detect and monitor methane and trace-gas emissions.
Morocco signs the Artemis Accords
Thursday, 30 April 2026 10:43
Morocco signed the Artemis Accords April 29, becoming the third country to do so in the last 10 days.
The great parachute bake-out
Thursday, 30 April 2026 10:30
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The great parachute bake-out Cosmoleap secures $73 million for reusable rocket with tower catch recovery
Thursday, 30 April 2026 09:57
Chinese launch startup Cosmoleap has secured significant funding for its reusable rocket plans as it works towards a debut launch in 2027.
Baking a parachute for Mars
Thursday, 30 April 2026 08:29
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Watch ESA’s Mars chief engineer Albert Haldemann explain the sterilisation process of one of the parachutes of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission and why it matters.
Carefully wrapped inside a donut-shaped bag is a 35-m diameter parachute, about to be baked inside a specialised dry-heat steriliser oven. The parachute needs to be at least 10 000 times cleaner than your smartphone.
To get rid of any microbes it might have picked up during its time on Earth, the parachute was heated up in a specialised oven at the European Space Agency’s Life Support and Physical Sciences Laboratory at ESTEC, the agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands. All air inside the cleanroom continuously passes through a two-stage
Starry spiral in a familiar neighbourhood
Thursday, 30 April 2026 07:00
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Starry spiral in a familiar neighbourhood What would happen without satellite communications?
Thursday, 30 April 2026 06:22
The sudden loss of satellite communications would lead to widespread disruption, affecting vital services such as air travel, maritime logistics and emergency response with an estimated economic impact of up to €20 billion. To highlight the economic importance of satellite-enabled connectivity, London Economics prepared a report for the European Space Agency (ESA), examining the effects of a hypothetical week-long outage of satellite communications across ESA Member States and Canada.
Canadian Space Agency cancels Spire satellite contract
Wednesday, 29 April 2026 23:43
The Canadian Space Agency has canceled a contract it awarded last year to Spire Global to construct a fleet of wildfire-monitoring smallsats.
ISS module cracking still unresolved despite stopping air leaks
Wednesday, 29 April 2026 21:09
While leaks in a Russian section of the International Space Station have stopped, engineers still don’t understand how the cracks formed.
May 13: Software Integration and Strategic Missile Defense
Wednesday, 29 April 2026 21:06

