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Media Broadcast Satellite Provides SATCOM as a Service Portfolio for Satellite Communications
Media Broadcast Satellite (MBS), a Germany-based provider of professional satellite communication services, highlights the SATCOM as a Service offering, an established service portfolio designed to deliver flexible, fully managed satellite connectivity for commercial, institutional and enterprise users. The SATCOM as a Service model builds on MBS’s long-standing experience in operating satellite ground infrastructure and managed…
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GomSpace Secures €2.9 Million Deal with Leading North American Space Company
GomSpace Luxembourg announced its selection by a leading North American space company for a mission focused on lunar exploration. The mission marks a major step forward in the understanding of the solar system and in the capabilities of small satellite platforms for deep space exploration. The contract covers the initial design of two state-of-the-art spacecrafts.…
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Kepler Communications Launches First Tranche of Optical Relay Satellites
Kepler Communications announced the successful launch of the first tranche of its optical relay satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The satellites will now begin commissioning as Kepler transitions its optical data relay network into operational service. The tranche consists of 10 satellites, each approximately 300 kilograms in…
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Mindrum Precision Highlights Space Services and Manufacturing Capabilities
Mindrum Precision, a US-based precision manufacturing company, is highlighting the space-focused services and capabilities that support the development, qualification and production of flight-critical hardware for spacecraft, launch vehicles and space systems. The company’s space services are already in active use across aerospace and defense programs, with a focus on delivering mechanically precise, repeatable and qualification-ready…
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Telit Cinterion and Nokia Partner on AI-Driven Mission-Critical Connectivity for Industrial Edge
Telit Cinterion, an end-to-end IoT solutions enabler, announces a technology collaboration with Nokia to provide mission-critical and heavy industries with a new generation of mission-critical communication and in-network compute capabilities. By integrating Telit Cinterion’s latest cellular, satellite and Wi-Fi communication modules with Nokia’s Cognitive Digital Mine (CDM) platform, oil/gas, logistics, mining and other industries now have…
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SpaceX Wins String Of Launches For NSSL Phase 3, Lane 1
SpaceX has received $739 million in new task orders for Phase 3, Lane 1 of National Security Space Launch (NSSL), according to U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC). The nine launches of Space Development Agency (SDA) and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellites are to start late this year and end in fiscal 2028. “SSC…
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SpaceX’s Twilight rideshare mission launches from Vandenberg
Fresh off a record-shattering launch cadence in 2025, SpaceX successfully launched its first rideshare mission of 2026 from Space Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the central California coast. This rideshare was the first of its kind for SpaceX, and not part of the Transporter or Bandwagon series. The Twilight rideshare mission, including…
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SpaceX deploys NASA’s Pandora, other smallsats amid 1st ‘Twilight’ rideshare mission
NASA’s Pandora spacecraft deploys from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket roughly 2.5 hours after the liftoff of the Twilight rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Jan. 11, 2026. Image: SpaceX via livestream Update Jan. 11, 11:33 a.m. EST (1633 UTC): SpaceX completed the deployment of all payloads. SpaceX debuted a new class of rideshare…
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NASA to Bring SpaceX Crew-11 Home Early After Medical Issue on ISS
NASA said it will bring SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission back to Earth about a month earlier than planned after a medical situation involving one of the four astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first medical evacuation from the orbiting laboratory since it began operations. The U.S. space agency said it would not identify…
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Is Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.
WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect the Orion spacecraft during its upcoming lunar mission. Isaacman made the determination after briefings with senior leaders at the agency and a half-day review of NASA’s findings with outside…