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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Cape Canaveral with 29 Starlink satellites
The Starlink 6-108 mission lifts off from a fog-shrouded pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX launched another 29 satellites for its Starlink internet service just after sunrise on Friday at fog shrouded Cape Canaveral. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 occurred at 7:16:10 a.m. EST (1216:10 UTC), but…
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Flight 12: Ship 39 rolls out to Masseys to begin testing
After spending a few months in Mega Bay 2 fully stacked, Ship 39 – the first V3 Ship – has rolled to Masseys for cryogenic proof testing. This is a key milestone ahead of Flight 12, with its partner, Booster 19, also in preparations, with engine installation currently taking place. Ship 39 Since stacking was…
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Rocket Report: Vulcan “many months” from flying; Falcon 9 extends reuse milestone
Welcome to Edition 8.31 of the Rocket Report! We have some late-breaking news this week with an update Thursday afternoon from Rocket Lab on the timing of its much-anticipated Neutron rocket. Following the failure of a first stage tank during testing, the company is pushing the medium-lift rocket’s debut into the fourth quarter of this…
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Startup Space at 10: A Launchpad for the New Space Economy
As the Startup Space pitch competition celebrates its 10th anniversary at this year’s SATShow Week, organizers, judges, and past-year winners say it has become a true on-ramp to the commercial space economy — especially for founders who once had no visible path onto major industry stages. When the competition launched in 2015, Jeffrey Hill, now executive chairman…
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Rocket Lab Hits Record Revenue in ‘25, But Delays Neutron to Late ‘26
Rocket Lab reached a new record for revenue and annual launches in 2025, but its sunny financial progress was clouded by another delay for the first Neutron launch. Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck told investors on Thursday that after a stage 1 tank ruptured during testing in January, Rocket Lab uncovered a manufacturing defect in…
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NASA overhauls Artemis moon program — and Blue Origin’s lander may be given a bigger role
An artist’s conception shows the integrated design for the Blue Moon Mark 2 lander. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA is reworking its Artemis moon program to add a test mission for commercial lunar landers in low Earth orbit next year, with a crewed lunar landing to follow in 2028 at the earliest. The revised plan raises…
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FusionLayer Partners with ESA and Fraunhofer FIT to Advance Digital Twin Infrastructure for Lunar Missions
FusionLayer announced a new research partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT under the ADTLAS project – Advancing Digital Twin Infrastructures for Lunar Analogue Studies and Remote Collaboration. As a co-sponsor of this ESA-OSIP initiative, FusionLayer will support research into how cloud-native IT services and autonomous digital infrastructure…
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Monogoto Receives 2025 Satellite IoT Innovation Award from IoT Evolution World
Monogoto announced that its Software-Defined Connectivity Cloud has been named a winner of the 2025 IoT Evolution Satellite IoT Innovation Award from IoT Evolution World, the leading online publication covering IoT technologies. These awards honour solution providers that have developed and deployed game-changing satellite solutions and services for IoT applications and appliances. In a market…
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Kayhan Space Advances Space Traffic Coordination and Intelligence with the Satcat Platform
Kayhan Space continues to expand access to space domain awareness and orbital intelligence through the Satcat platform, a comprehensive space object data aggregation and intelligence exchange system designed for satellite operators, space professionals, researchers, students and enthusiasts. Satcat integrates real-time and historical orbital data, operational tools, and advanced analytics into a unified environment focused on…
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ST Engineering iDirect Intuition to Enhance AiTelecom Connectivity
ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, is partnering with leading Mexican connectivity service provider AiTelecom to deploy its next-generation Intuition satellite ground system that will enable the delivery of high-performance connectivity across Mexico. Delivered through the flexible and scalable Intuition Unbound Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model, this will enable faster network deployment, improved disaster…