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From Steel Rolls to Starship at the Starfactory
As SpaceX accelerates its ambitious goal of sending humans to the Moon and Mars, the company’s Starship production complex at Starbase, Texas, has undergone a dramatic transformation, highlighted by the construction of Starfactory and the GigaBay. Starfactory: In early 2022, SpaceX broke ground on a massive new facility known as the Starfactory at its Starbase…
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NASA ready for another shot at launching Artemis 2 moon mission
Technicians and engineers perform prelaunch work on the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft inside the Vehicle Assembly Building on Feb. 26, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now NASA plans to haul its Artemis 2 moon rocket back out to its seaside launch pad next week to ready the huge booster for blastoff as early…
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European Space Agency Taps Terran Orbital Subsidiary for Defense Deal
Tyvak International, a subsidiary of Terran Orbital, has won a new cubesat contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). It will develop Farinella, a 6U CubeSat that will support ESA’s RAMSES planetary defense mission to the near-Earth asteroid Apophis. Terran Orbital announced the contract award, March 13. The RAMSES mission will study Apophis during its…
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Firefly Aerospace Launches Alpha Flight 7, Tests Block II Upgrades Ahead Of Next Mission
U.S. space and defense company Firefly Aerospace successfully launched its Alpha Flight 7 “Stairway to Seven” mission, sending a demonstrator payload for Lockheed Martin into orbit while testing upgrades planned for the rocket’s next configuration. The Firefly Alpha rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 5:50 p.m. PDT…
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AIRMO Raises €5 Million To Launch Methane Monitoring Satellite
European space startup AIRMO has secured €5 million ($5.8 million) in seed funding to support the launch of its first greenhouse gas monitoring satellite and expand its methane detection services into new markets. The funding round was led by Ananda Impact Ventures, with participation from Unconventional Ventures, Kopa Ventures, Desai Ventures, Hypernova, and New Venture…
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Cyprus Becomes First Country To Use EU GOVSATCOM Secure Satellite Communications Service
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) announced that Cyprus has become the first country to operationally use the European Union’s GOVSATCOM system. The announcement, made on March 10, said the service was deployed for safety and security operations along the EU’s south-eastern borders, marking the first operational use of the platform since…
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Eutelsat Terminates Russian Satellite Operator Agreements
Eutelsat has terminated contracts with Russian satellite operator, RSCC for the RSCC-owned and operated Express AT1 and AT2 satellites. Eutelsat said this termination was down to the failure of RSCC’s Express AT1 satellite located at the 56 degrees East position, and the planned relocation of the Express AT2 satellite from its current position at 140…
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China’s Long March-8A rocket launches new internet satellites
China launched a Long March-8A carrier rocket on Friday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a new group of internet satellites into space. The rocket lifted off at 3:48 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site. It successfully placed the payloads, the 20th group of low-orbit internet satellites, into preset…
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Spire Global Achieves First Light from HyMS Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder Satellite
Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and intelligence, has successfully received its first data from the Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder (HyMS) demonstrator satellite, marking the mission’s “first light” milestone and validating its hyperspectral microwave sensing capabilities. The HyMS instrument was launched as a technology demonstrator in early 2026 to evaluate the impact of…
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Thales Alenia Space Awards Astrobotic Contract For Wheels Of Lunar Habitat Module
Space manufacturer Thales Alenia Space has awarded a contract to U.S. robotics company Astrobotic to develop specialized wheels for a mobile lunar habitat under development for the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The wheels will be used on the Multi-Purpose Habitation Module, a concept designed to support human missions on the Moon as part of the…