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Pentagon Awards Karman Unit $5M Contract to Expand Rocket Motor Nozzle Production
Karman Space & Defense, a leader in the rapid design, development and production of critical, next-generation system solutions for launch vehicle, satellite, spacecraft, missile defense, hypersonic and UAS customers, announced its Systima facility in Mukilteo, WA received $5.0 million in Defense Production Act Title III funding from the U.S. Department of War on October 20,…
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Open Cosmos Showcases OpenConstellation Platform for Satellite Constellation Development
Open Cosmos, a provider of end-to-end satellite mission solutions, highlights the OpenConstellation platform with a scalable and modular constellation development framework designed to streamline the deployment of satellite networks for commercial, institutional and scientific missions. OpenConstellation provides a structured pathway for organisations to design, build, launch and operate multi-satellite constellations with predictable performance, reduced complexity…
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Starfighters Space Demonstrates Commercial Supersonic Flight in GE Aerospace Test Program
Starfighters Space, the innovative aerospace company, owner and operator of the world’s largest fleet of commercial supersonic aircraft, announced that it recently completed a successful supersonic flight test campaign for GE Aerospace, in which a Starfighters aircraft carried and flew an advanced propulsion test vehicle multiple times at supersonic speeds. This successfully completed campaign highlights…
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AE Industrial to Acquire Majority Stake in L3Harris’ Space Propulsion & Power Business
AE Industrial Partners, a private investment firm focused on technologies and services considered critical to aerospace and national and economic security, announced that it has acquired a controlling interest in the Space Propulsion and Power Systems business of L3Harris Technologies. The transaction encompasses business units across five locations in the U.S., which have developed the…
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SpaceX Launches Next Second-Gen Italian COSMO-SkyMed Satellite
The third satellite part of the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG) constellation, owned by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defense, built by Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%) and operated in orbit by Telespazio, a joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%), has successfully been…
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Array Labs Raises $20m to Scale Radar Satellite Technology
Array Labs announced a $20M Series A financing led by Catapult Ventures, with participation from Washington Harbour Partners, Kompas VC, and other new and existing investors, including Y Combinator, Maiora Capital, Animal Capital, Aera VC, Cultivation Capital, and Clearance Ventures. The round brings Array’s total funding to $35M since going through Y Combinator. The company…
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn Mission NG-2 Demonstrates Heavy-Lift Reusable Launch
Blue Origin, a US aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos and focused on expanding access to space, has successfully completed Mission NG-2, the second orbital flight of the New Glenn heavy-lift launch vehicle. The mission, conducted on November 13, 2025, delivered NASA’s twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft into a designated…
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Our annual power ranking of US rocket companies has changes near the top and bottom
Which US rocket companies achieved the most during 2025? Once again, Ars Technica is here to provide some answers in the form of our annual power ranking of US launch companies. We began doing this in 2022 and have since put out a top-10 list every year (see 2023 and 2024). Our intent, as always,…
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Eutelsat Secures New Rail Deal in Gabon
Rail passengers in Gabon will benefit from having connectivity thanks to a partnership between Eutelsat and Airtel Gabon to deploy OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity services on trains. The two companies announced the partnership, Dec. 30. The deployment builds on successful testing and is being implemented as part of a national initiative led by the…