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Rocket Report: SpaceX probes upper stage malfunction; Starship testing resumes
Welcome to Edition 8.28 of the Rocket Report! The big news in rocketry this week was that NASA still hasn’t solved the problem with hydrogen leaks on the Space Launch System. The problem caused months of delays before the first SLS launch in 2022, and the fuel leaks cropped up again Monday during a fueling…
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Blue Origin’s TeraWave Constellation: Analysts Size Up Competitive Positioning
Blue Origin is now targeting the satellite constellation market, in one of the biggest and perhaps even most surprising story of the year, Blue Origin announced it was going to build TeraWave, a new constellation of optically linked satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO), geared toward enterprise users and data centers. A satellite…
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ULA offloads first Vulcan rocket at Vandenberg at it preps its next Cape launch
A United Launch Alliance Vulcan booster is offloaded from the company’s R/S RocketShip barge at a dock at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This will be the first Vulcan rocket to launch from the West Coast. Image: United Launch Alliance United Launch Alliance is staging rockets at launch complexes on both the West Coast…
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Texas A&M To Deploy TAMU-SPIRIT Research Platform On International Space Station
Texas A&M University said it has developed an orbital research platform, TAMU-SPIRIT, that will be deployed aboard the International Space Station, giving its researchers priority access to conduct experiments in low-Earth orbit. The platform has been developed in partnership with Aegis Aerospace and will be mounted on the ISS’s Express Logistics Carrier 3. The facility…
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Data Shows Starlink Dominates Consumer Internet Market, at Least For Now, Ookla Analyst Says
A recent report from connectivity data provider Ookla found that SpaceX‘s Starlink customers made up an overwhelming majority of its speed test samples in the third quarter of 2025, dwarfing its competitors operating satellites in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). And those speed tests logged higher download speeds on Starlink, yet did match the level of speeds…
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NASA stage show explores “outer” outer space with Henson’s Fraggles
Move over Snoopy, because NASA has a new character helping to promote its deep space exploration plans. His name is Uncle Traveling Matt. No really, move over. Fraggle Rock: A Space-y Adventure has taken over the same theater the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida previously used for All Systems Are Go, featuring the…
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SpaceX shifts away from Dragon launches at pad 39A as Starship looms
SpaceX works on the crew access arm at Launch Complex 39A on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now It’s the end of an era as SpaceX transitions all of its planned Dragon flights from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space…
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Atombeam Secures Expanded SDA Contract to Enhance Link 16 and JREAP C Satellite Data Transmission
Atombeam, whose innovative technology redefines how data is used, moved, stored, and secured, announced it received an expanded contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) to improve the data transmission capabilities of Link 16 and Joint Extension Applications Protocol C (JREAP C) over satellites with the company’s Neurpac solution. The contract is an…
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Vantor Secures NGA Luno B Contract for AI-Powered Global Change Detection
Vantor, the leading provider of unified spatial intelligence from space to ground, has been awarded a $5.3 million National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Luno B contract to detect and deliver automated insights on real-time changes to the Earth’s landscape, strengthening NGA’s global mapping and intelligence missions. Under the contract, Vantor will use AI-powered analytics and integrate…
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Viking Satcom Showcases SATCOM Antenna Portfolio for Mission-Critical Communications
Viking Satcom, a US-based provider of satellite communications systems and integration services, is providing the SATCOM antenna portfolio designed to support reliable and high-performance connectivity across commercial, government and defense operations. Already deployed across multiple operational environments, Viking Satcom’s antenna solutions address the practical requirements of fixed, transportable and rapidly deployable satellite terminals operating in…