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EarthDefine Launches 3D Building Footprints API for Nationwide Geospatial Intelligence
EarthDefine, a provider of high-resolution geospatial products, announced the launch of its Buildings Footprints 3D API, giving developers and enterprises programmatic access to detailed building footprint and structure data across the United States. Building footprint data is foundational to a wide range of applications, from insurance underwriting and property assessment to logistics, urban planning, and…
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Rocket Lab Clears Antitrust Review and Files S-4 in Push to Acquire Iridium
Rocket Lab announced the developments on August 13, 2026, describing them as substantial steps toward closing the previously announced acquisition. The company is simultaneously advancing regulatory clearances and building the financing structure needed to satisfy both cash and equity portions of the deal. The waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act expired at 11:59…
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Teledyne to Acquire Varex Imaging in $1.1 Billion All-Cash Deal
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated and Varex Imaging Corporation have jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Teledyne will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Varex for $18.90 per share payable in cash. The aggregate value for the transaction is approximately $1.1 billion, taking into account Varex’s equity awards and…
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SpaceX Publishes All-Hands as Musk Details AI Push, Starship Scale, and Multiplanetary Vision
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk laid out a future for the company that extends far beyond rockets and satellite internet, telling employees that artificial intelligence could soon become SpaceX’s largest business and eventually account for 99% of its value. During the presentation, which SpaceX published on August 11th, Musk said the company is targeting 10 gigawatts…
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Thaicom 10 Slips to Late 2028 Launch, Deepening Thaicom’s Fleet Gap
The company is scrambling to relocate customers ahead of the Thaicom 4 retirement later this year. Thaicom 10 had been set for launch in 2027 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Its original launch date was late 2024, but the schedule has slipped as Airbus works through development issues on its new OneSat series of…
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NASA Finishes First Astronaut-Deployed Lunar Instrument Since Apollo
LEMS builds on a legacy of lunar seismic tracking that began with Apollo. Astronauts deployed a network of seismometers on the Moon’s nearside equatorial region between 1969 and 1972, and those instruments operated until 1977, recording about 13,000 moonquakes and other ground vibrations that helped scientists begin to understand the composition of the Moon’s interior.…
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NASA Invites India to Join Lunar Moon Base Programme
The meeting was attended by US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor and ISRO Chairman V Narayanan, who discussed existing and future avenues of collaboration in the space sector. The US Embassy shared a press release on the meeting on Wednesday. The discussions referenced the TRUST Initiative, launched jointly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US…
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NASA Lines Up 20-Plus Robotic Moon Landings Through 2029 to Build South Pole Base
The effort forms Phase I of NASA’s Moon Base architecture plan, which runs from now through 2029. Each mission is intended to build on previous flights, improving capabilities and confirming that key systems work before later missions arrive. Regular cargo deliveries through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative are expected to help establish a reliable…
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ChinaSat Satellite Series Overview: How China Built the Strategic Communications Network Behind Its Space Power
The failed ChinaSat-4B launch has once again drawn attention to one of the most important yet least understood pillars of China’s space program: the ChinaSat communications satellite fleet. Over three decades, the program has evolved from reliance on foreign-built spacecraft into one of the world’s largest geostationary communications satellite systems, supporting everything from television broadcasting…
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Russia Accelerates Rassvet Satellite-Internet Deployment
MOSCOW/KYIV, Aug. 13, 2026 — Russia is accelerating the deployment of Rassvet, a domestically developed low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation intended to reduce the country’s dependence on foreign satellite communications. Recent launches and orbital observations suggest that the project has moved beyond experimental testing, although its present capabilities remain far short of SpaceX’s Starlink network. The system…