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One of China’s workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
One of China’s most used rockets, the Long March 7A, exploded a little more than a minute after lifting off on Monday evening, local time. The medium-lift rocket’s payload was classified, but it was believed to be a military communications satellite. The rocket’s liftoff from Wenchang Space Launch Site appeared to be nominal, but publicly…
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Voyager Awarded Raytheon Contract Supporting SM-3
Voyager Technologies has been awarded a contract by Raytheon, an RTX business, to advance propulsion technologies for the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptor family. The company will provide its solid controllable throttleable propulsion technology and divert, attitude and control systems (DACS) the precision subsystems that enable accuracy in the exo-atmospheric midcourse phase of flight. “Our propulsion…
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MDA Space Books $809 Million in Quarterly Orders, Redirects Canadarm3 to the Lunar Surface
MDA Space reported strong Q2 2026 financial results, highlighted by $361.49 million USD ($498.6 million CAD) in revenue, a 33.6% increase year-over-year. Earnings performance featured a net profit of $20.23 million USD ($27.9 million CAD) and adjusted EBITDA of $69.60 million USD ($96.0 million CAD), driven by $586.52 million USD ($809.0 million CAD) in new…
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MDA Space Highlights Canadarm3 Following Canadian Space Agency Announcement
MDA Space Ltd., a trusted mission partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry, issued the following statement in response to the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) announcement on its intention to repurpose Canadarm3 investments to support the next phase of lunar exploration. “We applaud the Canadian Space Agency’s announcement to repurpose Canadarm3 technologies to support…
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The Launch Crunch Just Made a ULA Sale Worth Revisiting
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Xplore Expands Space Services Portfolio with Data, Compute and Satellite Operations Solutions
Xplore is advancing commercial space capabilities through an integrated portfolio of satellite-based services that combine Earth observation data, on-orbit computing and cloud-based mission operations. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, the company develops end-to-end space services that enable organizations to collect, process, analyze and manage satellite data more efficiently. The service offerings Data as a Service (DaaS),…
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Long March 7A Explodes 85 Seconds Into Flight, Destroying Military Communications Satellite
The rocket lifted off at around 8:00 a.m. Eastern (1200 UTC) from Wenchang on Hainan island, a launch window indicated in advance by airspace closure notices. It remains unknown whether the explosion resulted from an in-flight anomaly or a triggering of the flight termination system. State broadcaster China National Radio published a brief report of…
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MDA Space Will ‘Repurpose’ Canadarm3 For Lunar Surface
MDA Space will “repurpose” its microgravity robot-arm tech for lunar surface operations—likely supporting the NASA-led Moon Base—after the US space agency put the OG plans for Gateway on hold. The Canadian company’s investments into Canadarm3—originally intended to operate in lunar microgravity—will focus on “future logistics activities on the lunar surface,” Canada announced late Thursday. The…
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SDA Awards MapLarge Contract for Commercial Sensor Data Fusion Platform
The U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded MapLarge a fixed-price Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) to develop the Tasking and Data Fusion Platform (TDFP) program for exploiting commercial sensors. The award builds on MapLarge’s earlier work with SpaceWERX and has put the MapLarge platform on contract to serve SDA’s operational missile-tracking mission. Under the TDFP,…
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Network Rail Tests Satellite Analytics To Predict Flooding And Vegetation Risks
Network Rail, the owner and operator of Britain’s railway infrastructure, has partnered with Earth observation analytics company CATALYST, part of PCI Geomatics, on a 12-week pilot exploring how satellite data could help identify weather-related risks to railway infrastructure across the Wessex Route before disruption occurs. The pilot brought together Network Rail’s Wessex Route Operations and…