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ST Engineering Signs Singapore Public Safety Deal with HTX
ST Engineering and HTX (Home Team Science and Technology Agency) will establish a new space technology program, and co-develop space-based science and technology capabilities to strengthen Singapore’s public safety operations. The two organizations have signed a five-year MoU, which ST Engineering announced on April 28. ST Engineering plans to use its expertise in Earth Observation…
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Launch preview: SpaceX seeks second attempt at Falcon Heavy launch following weather scrub on Monday
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket stands in the vertical launch position ahead of the flight of the ViaSat-3 Flight 3 mission for Viasat. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now SpaceX will try again Wednesday to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, following a last-minute scrub Monday due to poor weather. The heavy lift rocket…
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General Atomics Advances to Phase 3 of Space Force Terminal Program
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been selected to perform Phase 3 of the U.S. Space Force’s Enterprise Space Terminal (EST) program following successful government verification of the company’s optical communication terminal (OCT) at MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Optical Terminal Verification Testbed (OTVT). Phase 3 will transition the EST effort from prototype development into flight hardware production…
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KONGSBERG Selected for Seven European Defence Fund Projects
The European Commission has allocated EUR 1.07 billion to 57 projects under the 2025 EDF programme, part of a total budget of EUR 7.3 billion for the period 2021–2027. EDF is the EU’s programme for collaborative defence research and development, designed to strengthen industrial cooperation and support the development of shared capabilities across Member States.…
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With new patch design, the Crew-13 astronauts clearly aren’t superstitious
NASA has assigned its first crew to launch on a mission “13” since Apollo 13 “had a problem” on the way to the Moon 56 years ago. Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney with NASA, Joshua Kutryk with the Canadian Space Agency, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov will lift off for the International Space Station as…
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Pale Blue Advances Water-Based Electric Propulsion Systems for Space Missions
Pale Blue is advancing in-space propulsion with a portfolio of water-based electric propulsion systems designed for satellites ranging from CubeSats to larger spacecraft up to 700 kg. By replacing traditional propellants with water and eliminating high-pressure storage requirements, the company provides a propulsion approach focused on safety, cost efficiency and simplified mission integration. Pale Blue’s…
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Astrobotic and CMU Advance Navigation System for Lunar Surface Operations
Astrobotic, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), has successfully completed Phase II of its NASA Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) project for Distributed Agent Localization Estimation for spaceCraft (DALEC), advancing the system from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 to TRL 5. DALEC is designed to provide positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities in environments…
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Solstar Space Company Successfully Launches Deke Space Communicator to Orbit
Santa Fe-based Solstar Space Company announced that its Deke Space Communicator has been successfully launched to orbit and is now operating nominally in space, following its March 30, 2026 flight aboard a spacecraft operated by Momentus Inc. on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. After orbital insertion, the Deke system was…
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Ursa Major Reaches 10 Successful Hadley Engine Flights Proving Reusable Hypersonic Capability
Ursa Major’s Hadley liquid rocket engine has completed 10 consecutive successful flights, including multiple missions at sustained hypersonic speeds with Stratolaunch. The milestone underscores Ursa Major’s ability to deliver flight-proven, high-performing, reusable propulsion and defense systems at the speed and scale required for national security environment. Several of the 10 flights were conducted using previously…
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Open Cosmos Partners with Ubotica Technologies to Bring AI into Orbit
Open Cosmos, the company building satellites to understand and connect the world, has partnered with Ubotica Technologies to bring advanced artificial intelligence into orbit through collaboration on the Flight Demonstration of Federated Autonomous Measurement (FAME) – a project led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The collaboration will see two of Open Cosmos’ operational satellites, equipped…