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As space becomes a domain of warfare, democracies across the globe will increasingly rely on commercial satellite operators and private sector space companies to wage it, a senior NATO official told last week’s CyberSat conference. “Eventually we want to see commercial partners embedded — real bodies, real company representatives — working and fighting side by…

AST SpaceMobile is expanding its manufacturing capabilities with the addition of two new sites, one in Texas and one in Florida.  The company announced this week it is adding a facility in Midland, Texas, where it is headquartered, and adding a site in Homestead, Florida, near Miami. These moves expand the company’s manufacturing footprint to…

An unpiloted Chinese spacecraft launched late Monday and linked up with the country’s Tiangong space station a few hours later, providing a lifeboat for three astronauts stuck in orbit without a safe ride home. A Long March 2F rocket fired its engines and lifted off with the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft, carrying cargo instead of a…

All.Space has completed testing under the U.S. Army’s Next Generation Tactical Terminal (NGTT) program for its Hydra Max terminal, the company announced Nov. 25. The terminal has now been formally recognized by the Army at Technology Readiness Level 6 (TRL 6), which marks moving from a prototype to operationally validated system.  The Army’s NGTT program…