Firefly plans late summer launch of first Alpha Block 2 rocket
Monday, 04 May 2026 23:45Firefly Aerospace plans to debut the upgraded version of its Alpha rocket late this summer as it sees strong demand for the vehicle, particularly for national security applications.
NRO taps EarthDaily, Iceye, Pixxel to expand commercial data pipeline
Monday, 04 May 2026 23:32The agency established a three-tier cybersecurity classification system for commercial data vendors
NATO governance policies need updating
Monday, 04 May 2026 22:30DENVER – NATO must update policies and strengthen relationships among allies to accelerate the fusion of commercial and national geospatial intelligence, Maj. Gen. Paul Lynch, NATO deputy assistant secretary general for intelligence, said May 4 at the GEOINT Symposium. The war in Ukraine demonstrated the promise of “rapid continuous fusion of national intelligence across 32 […]
Tech firms partner up to push intelligence processing closer to the battlefield
Monday, 04 May 2026 17:00The initiative, called Coalition Edge, brings together companies focused on analytics, cloud infrastructure and connectivity
Pixxel pushes into orbital data centers for faster geospatial intelligence
Monday, 04 May 2026 15:04Indian hyperspectral imaging startup Pixxel plans to test orbital data center technology on a pathfinder satellite designed to deliver geospatial intelligence directly from space.
Global Smallsat Deployment Accelerates, with 16,900 Satellites Projected Through 2035
Monday, 04 May 2026 14:01
Interlune wins NASA contract for helium-3 extraction payload
Monday, 04 May 2026 13:12Interlune, a startup with plans to harvest helium-3 from the moon, has won a NASA contract to develop a payload to test ways to extract the isotope from lunar regolith.
DARPA chief says agency must harness commercial space boom
Monday, 04 May 2026 13:00Director Stephen Winchell says the agency is eyeing a cislunar navigation challenge and is exploring asteroid resource concepts
Space’s missing half
Monday, 04 May 2026 12:00Every generation reshapes how civilization moves goods. Container ships revolutionized the mid-20th century, computing the late 20th century, and as we entered the new millennium so did the internet, and now reusable rockets. Each unlocked new levels of speed, and capability and markets. The next logistics layer isn’t yet widely known, but it is happening. Since February, more than 600 vessels are stalled in the Persian Gulf, unable to transit the Strait […]
Lawsuit claims Starship launches damage homes
Monday, 04 May 2026 11:05As SpaceX prepares for the first flight of version 3 of Starship, the company is facing a new legal challenge from local residents who claim launches damage their homes.
IonQ to offer ground-movement monitoring via Capella radar satellites
Monday, 04 May 2026 11:00Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, or InSAR, enables automated detection of surface changes
Taylor Geospatial unveils global field dataset
Monday, 04 May 2026 11:00SAN FRANCISCO – The first global dataset showing the boundaries of agricultural fields was released in late April, after an 18-month campaign by geospatial experts in industry and academia. The initiative, led by the nonprofit Taylor Geospatial and Microsoft AI for Good Lab, produced an open and publicly available dataset with applications for food security, […]
Vantor wins $70 million award to enhance NGA data-delivery platform
Monday, 04 May 2026 10:00
SAN FRANCISCO – Vantor will operate and enhance the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (GEGD) platform, an unclassified web-based system, under a $70 million award announced May 4.
OroraTech deploys wildfire constellation for Greece
Monday, 04 May 2026 09:45KRAKOW — Four OroraTech satellites that are part of the Hellenic Fire System launched and deployed on May 3, the Munich-based company announced. The mission makes Greece the first country to deploy a sovereign operational constellation dedicated specifically to wildfire detection. The satellites, named Forest-16, 17, 18 and 19, were launched from a SpaceX Falcon […]
Launch boosts European Earth monitoring and connectivity
Monday, 04 May 2026 06:30
Thirteen European satellites on the same rideshare launcher have successfully reached orbit, bringing capabilities to Italian and Greek monitoring programmes as well as CubeSats that will test satellite connectivity.