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Rocket Lab Hits 18 Electron Launches in 2025
Rocket Lab has set a new record for Electron launches in a year, reaching 18 launches after back-to-back launches from New Zealand and Virginia. The first was a HASTE suborbital hypersonic technology test flight from Wallops Island, Virginia, on Tuesday morning for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The launch included…
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Attack, defend, pursue—the Space Force’s new naming scheme foretells new era
A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for naming the military’s multiplying fleet of airplanes. The 1924 aircraft designation code produced memorable names like the B-17, A-26, B-29, and P-51—B for bomber, A for attack, and P for pursuit—during World War II. The military later…
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Iceye to Collaborate with Swedish Space Corporation on Nordic, NATO Space Capabilities
Two Nordic space companies, Iceye and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), signed a letter of intent this week to collaborate on sovereign space capabilities for Nordic and NATO security. They plan to explore synergies between Iceye’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities and SSC’s ground station network and other capabilities. They plan to support future mission…
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Blue Origin Targets Super-Heavy Class New Glenn Variant
Blue Origin is planning to upgrade its New Glenn rocket, and announced plans for an upcoming super-heavy version of the rocket on Thursday. After last week marked the second successful New Glenn mission, Blue Origin plans to increase thrust on its BE-4 booster engines, starting with the third mission. The launcher said the total thrust…
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Falcon 9 Starlink mission marks 100th launch of the year from Florida’s Space Coast
A Falcon 9 rocket rises from a fog bank on Nov.20, 2025, making the 100th launch of the year from Florida’s Space Coast. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center Thursday evening on a milestone mission marking the 100th launch from the Space Coast this year. The…
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Redwire Secures $44 Million DARPA Contract for Very Low-Earth Orbit Mission
Redwire Corporation, a global leader in space and defense technology solutions, announced that it has been awarded a $44 million phase 2 contract to advance the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Otter Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mission to demonstrate the world’s first air-breathing spacecraft and advance next-generation orbital capabilities. The phase 2 contract…
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Kymeta and iRocket Partner to Integrate Conformal Multi-Orbit Tech into Missile Interceptors
Kymeta Corporation, the global leader in mobile satellite communications powered by metamaterials technology, and Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. (iRocket), a revolutionary rocket manufacturer, have announced a strategic collaboration to further develop, integrate, and test Kymeta’s new conformal multi-orbit technology within iRocket’s missile interceptors. As the Pentagon increases its reliance on commercial providers for defense technology,…
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Spire Global Ships Nine Satellites to Launch Site
Spire Global, a leading global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, announced that nine satellites designed and built by Spire’s in-house manufacturing teams have shipped to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of their launch aboard SpaceX’s upcoming Falcon 9 Twilight mission. The mission includes the Company’s Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder (HyMS) satellite…
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KP Labs and Frontgrade Partners to Advance Fault-Tolerant Computing for Space Missions
KP Labs, a European Leader in delivering autonomous systems for space applications and Frontgrade Gaisler Technologies, a leading provider of high-reliability electronic solutions for space and national security missions have signed a Memorandum of Understanding during the Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen, Germany. The agreement establishes a framework for collaboration in developing and validating…
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ARQUIMEA Expands Full-Spectrum Space Capabilities from Technologies to Integrated Mission Systems
ARQUIMEA, headquartered in Madrid, Spain, is a multidisciplinary technology company with a significant footprint in the European space industry. Over more than two decades, the company has built a comprehensive set of capabilities spanning satellite systems, mission payloads, structural and thermal subsystems, avionics and radiation-hard microelectronics. The space division supports a wide spectrum of mission…