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Stargazing into the future of SSA

Monday, 02 March 2026 15:00
Stargaze

SpaceX has disrupted the launch business with the Falcon 9 and the satellite communications business with Starlink.

U.S. Cyber Command and U.S. Space Command have ‘continuously layered effects to disrupt, disorient and confuse the enemy’

Follow the Celeste launch campaign

Monday, 02 March 2026 13:21
Celeste in-orbit demonstration satellites

The first two satellites of ESA’s Celeste LEO-PNT demonstration mission are scheduled to lift off no earlier than 24 March, aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the company’s Māhia Launch Complex in New Zealand. 

Laurent Jaffart, ESA Director of Resilience, Navigation and Connectivity announces up to €100 million in funding for four challenges

The European Space Agency (ESA) and GSMA Foundry have opened a call for ideas to provide up to €100 million in funding for projects improving the combined use of satellite and ground connectivity networks. The funding opportunity – provided by ESA Member States and announced during the 2026 Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain – will empower companies to bridge the digital divide.

Open Cosmos shed more light on its proposed sovereign broadband constellation for Europe March 2, branding the Ka-band network ConnectedCosmos while leaving how it will meet mid-2026 deployment deadlines in the dark.

The European Space Agency announced up to $118 million in funding March 2 for projects promising to accelerate the convergence of satellite and terrestrial communications.

Rocket Lab Mars telecom orbiter

NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget reconciliation bill as companies continue positioning themselves to bid on it.

Officials says commercial data and software can sharpen space threat detection

Cape Canaveral (AFP) Feb 27, 2026
NASA on Friday abruptly said it was shaking up its Artemis lunar program that has suffered multiple delays in recent years, a bid to ensure Americans can return to the Moon's surface by 2028. That goal remains unchanged, but the US space agency is shifting its flight lineup to include a test mission before an eventual lunar landing to improve launch "muscle memory," NASA administrator Jared
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