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Launch Preview: Vulcan launches USSF-87, SpaceX sends Crew-12 to ISS
The launch manifest is full this week, with eight launches scheduled from different launch sites worldwide. The week kicked off with a SpaceX Starlink mission on Wednesday, followed by a busy Thursday, during which five different rockets — including a Vulcan, a Proton, and the first Ariane 64 — launched. SpaceX and NASA are launching…
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The European hardware powering Artemis 2’s journey around the Moon
The European Service Module for Artemis 2 before it was shipped to Kennedy Space Center in 2021. Image: NASA From Europe to Florida The European Service Module is built at Airbus’ facility in Bremen, Germany, before making a transatlantic journey to the United States for testing and integration with Orion’s crew module. That handoff is…
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Amazon Expects to Increase Spending on Amazon Leo by $1B in 2026
Amazon expects to spend $1 billion more on expenses for the Amazon Leo constellation in 2026, leadership advised investors in its recent financial reporting. Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky told investors on Feb. 5 the company expects a year-over-year cost increase of approximately $1 billion related to Amazon Leo this year. “We have more than 20…
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Es’hailSat Form LEO Strategic Partnership With Telesat
Telesat has signed a strategic partnership deal in the Middle East with Es’hailSat to deliver Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connectivity services to Qatar and across key international markets. The two companies announced the partnership, Feb. 9. Telesat’s LEO network, currently in production, is designed to deliver high‑throughput, low‑latency connectivity to a broad range of markets.…
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Momentus to Demonstrate Multispectral Sensor for Space Force, With NASA Support, in March
Momentus will undertake a rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) demonstration mission with NASA next month, as the former moves to fulfill a contract signed with the U.S. Space Force last year. Momentus’ Vigoride 7 orbital service vehicle (OSV) will carry NASA’s R5 Spacecraft 10 (R5-S10) alongside other payloads when it is launched via the upcoming…
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Why would Elon Musk pivot from Mars to the Moon all of a sudden?
As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned instead to his social network. There, he tapped out an extended message in which he revealed that SpaceX is pivoting from the settlement of Mars to building a “self-growing” city on the Moon.…
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From Skepticism to Maturity: Unpacking Space Investment in 2025 With Chad Anderson
Investment in space infrastructure hit a new record in 2025, reaching $22.2 billion, according to Space Capital’s latest report. This level of investment surpassed the previous record of 2021. Chad Anderson, CEO and founder of Space Capital, joins On Orbit this week to share his takeaways from 2025 from Space Capital’s recent Space Investment Quarterly…
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Weather delays NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 flight to the International Space Station
Teams monitor the countdown during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, in the…
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How to design a space station: Meet the Seattle company that’s helping define the look of the final frontier
This cutaway view shows the interior of the Starlab space station’s laboratory. (Starlab Illustration) How do you design a living space where there’s no up or down? That’s one of the challenges facing Teague, a Seattle-based design and innovation firm that advises space companies such as Blue Origin, Axiom Space and Voyager Technologies on how…
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UARX Space Selected as Strategic Supplier for Sateliot’s Tritó Satellite Mission
UARX Space, a Galician company specialized in the development of high-reliability deployment systems and advanced in-orbit logistics solutions.has been chosen as a strategic supplier for the Tritó of Sateliot, a Spanish leader in satellite communications, providing global connectivity to commercial ground devices without the need for hardware modifications. This selection positions UARX’s SAU&RON family as…