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SpaceX’s Starlink constellation continues to make inroads into the in-flight connectivity (IFC) market by winning business from one of the leading airlines in the U.S. Southwest Airlines is the latest major airline to turn Starlink. The airline plans to rapidly integrate Starlink into its fleet. The first Starlink-equipped aircraft is set to enter service this…

Software startup The Compression Company announced a $3.4 million pre-seed round of financing, led by veteran venture capital firm Long Journey, on Thursday. The Compression Company is focused on AI-driven compression of Earth observation data. Instead of using blanket compression, its software is designed to preserve more detailed data while heavily compressing homogenous areas like…

Arianespace inaugurated a new configuration for the Ariane 6 rocket, placing 32 Amazon Leo satellites into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on Thursday. The mission marked the first in a series of 18 launches contracted by the two companies. The mission took off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 1:45 p.m. local time, and lasted 1…

Iridium met its 2025 guidance, hitting service revenue growth of 3%. CEO Matt Desch on Thursday highlighted four growth areas for Iridium’s future, looking to IoT expansion, PNT capabilities, national security work, and aviation systems, and addressed “buzz” around Iridium’s L-band spectrum position. Desch previewed Iridium’s work to grow in these areas in a Thursday…

China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular. The demonstration “marks a significant breakthrough in the development of [China’s] manned lunar exploration program,” the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA)…

A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby E3 test stand. There was a grass fire where Archimedes engines undergo testing. Could they please send personnel over? According to the fire station’s November 30 dispatcher log, the employee said, “The fire started…

Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is accustomed to getting makeovers. It got another one Wednesday with the removal of the Crew Access Arm used by astronauts to board their rides to space. Construction workers first carved the footprint for the launch pad from the Florida wetlands more than 60 years…