A Russian satellite likely suffered a “low-intensity explosion” that created hundreds of pieces of debris in low Earth orbit, according to one company’s analysis.

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Ovzon’s first fully owned satellite is ready to start commercial services following successful tests in geostationary orbit, the Swedish broadband operator announced July 5.

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How Loper Bright could upend the process of crafting and enforcing space policy.

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Saudi Arabia is stepping up efforts to become a major force in space as commercial activity in the industry rises across the Middle East.

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NASA is just months away from closing off its data relay satellite fleet to new users in preparation for switching over to commercial alternatives.

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Many in the launch industry on both sides of the Atlantic are skeptical that Starship will dominate the industry and force competitors out of business, at least over the next several years.

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A solar storm in May revealed the challenges and current state of space weather modeling and readiness.

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SpaceWERX is emphasizing pragmatic military tech over exploratory research.

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Kazakhstan has signed a memorandum on cooperation on the China-led ILRS and will also explore commercial use of each other’s spaceports.

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Firefly Aerospace placed eight cubesats into orbit on a mission funded by NASA on the first flight of the company’s Alpha rocket since an upper stage malfunction more than half a year ago.

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Two large GEO communications spacecraft would be deployed before the end of the decade

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Both companies were on-ramped to the Orbital Services Program-4 (OSP-4) contract

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Sentinel-2C is ready to be shipped from Germany for a two-week trip across the Atlantic Ocean to the European spaceport in French Guiana, where Europe’s latest Earth science satellite is due to launch on the final flight of the original version of the Vega rocket.

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Chinese commercial satellite maker MinoSpace has secured more than $137 million to further its design and production aspirations.

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Ventures racing to replace the International Space Station are forging new partnerships that echo the cooperation of the ISS era

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While on-orbit servicing (OOS) is becoming increasingly feasible, there is not a clear path to market for the technology.

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Bulgarian cubesat specialist EnduroSat announced plans July 3 to build Botswana’s first satellite in partnership with a university from the landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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NASA has selected SpaceX to launch a small gamma-ray astronomy mission on a Falcon 9 in 2027.

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As NASA pushes ahead with a crewed lunar landing on the Artemis 3 mission in September 2026, the agency’s own analysis estimates a nearly one-in-three chance the lander will be at least a year and a half late.

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Join our expert panelists as they dive into the growing race for moon resources. With nations and companies now vying for water, metals, and minerals across the lunar surface, will NASA’s commercial strategy prove effective? And can countries […]

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Cosmic Shielding Corp. is supporting the upcoming launch of a radiation-hardened edge computer from San Francisco startup Aethero.

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Rick Tumlinson writes that the International Space Station must be preserved rather than destroyed in reentry.

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Realistically, there is no singular solution to replace GPS, but we can make it more resilient with complementary AltPNT technologies.

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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is tackling many of the challenges facing crewed Artemis missions.

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