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Rocket Lab Lands $397 Million Space Force Deal to Build and Fly SB-AMTI “Flatellites”
SB-AMTI is designed to track airborne targets from orbit. The program forms part of a broader Space Force push to give the U.S. military persistent overhead tracking of aircraft and missiles from low Earth orbit, a capability that would have been unthinkable on small satellites a decade ago. Rocket Lab was one of three vendors…
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Neuraspace Raises 15.6 Million Euros to Build European Space Domain Awareness Platform
The funding combines a six million euro Series B round from venture capitalists with 9.6 million euros from Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, an EU-backed national program created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The public portion is earmarked for the NeuraspaceDEF platform, while the broader proceeds will complement the company’s existing optical telescopes with…
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SpaceX Delivers Three More BlueBird Satellites to Orbit for AST SpaceMobile
The launch came about a month and a half after SpaceX flew the BlueBird 8-10 mission. It was the third time SpaceX has carried satellites for AST SpaceMobile’s constellation, which aims to connect standard phones without any special hardware. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 3:49 a.m.…
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Perseverance Captures Earth Vanishing Behind Phobos in a First for Human History
This annotated composite of nine images taken by Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z on July 2, 2026, shows Earth — the small bright dot moving from upper left to lower right — passing behind the Martian moon Phobos. The images in the inset were captured from the same rectangular patch of sky outlined in black. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI …
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Tesla Cybertrucks Certified as Crew Escape Vehicles for SpaceX Crew-13 Launch
The decision marks a visible connection between Elon Musk’s companies, with a consumer vehicle now certified for a role previously handled by specialized contractors. It also reflects how SpaceX’s vertical integration has extended into ground support equipment, a domain long served by outside suppliers. NASA and SpaceX both signed off on the safety determination that…
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SpaceX Commits Exclusively to Nvidia for Orbital AI Hardware
Starmind has been in development since Musk confirmed the name in June, following an xAI trademark filing that surfaced the project before SpaceX made it official. The concept moves computation off the ground entirely. Rather than shipping data to terrestrial servers, satellites equipped with onboard processors and large solar arrays would run AI workloads in…
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Inouye Solar Telescope Resolves Wave Structures Never Before Seen on the Sun’s Surface
The structures are the signature of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, a process that occurs when two fluids flow past each other at significantly different speeds and small disturbances grow into swirling vortices. These wave-like shapes appear throughout the solar system, in Earth’s clouds and wind-swept ocean, between the stripes in Saturn’s upper atmosphere, and in hints…
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Frontgrade Strengthens Executive Team to Support Growing Space and Defense Technologies
Frontgrade Technologies Inc., a leading provider of mission-critical electronics and subsystems, announced the expansion of the executive leadership team as it continues to invest in the capabilities for the next generation of space, defense and intelligence missions. Spanning finance, information technology, operations, reputation, go-to-market and product leadership, the appointments reinforce Frontgrade’s commitment to accelerating innovation…
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Viasat Previews ViaSat-3 Satellites Entering Service in Q1 Results
Viasat reported essentially flat revenue of $1.2 billion in the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal year, reporting financial results on Tuesday. The operator previewed entry into service of the second and third ViaSat-3 satellites, which are both expected to enter service soon. Revenue for Viasat’s Communication Services segment was flat-year-over-year at $825 million as…
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Space Force Awards Additional SB-AMTI Contracts, Including One To Rocket Lab
U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded $615 million in Other Transaction Authority contracts for Space Based Airborne Moving Target Indication (SB-AMTI) to Rocket Lab, STR LLC, and a company unnamed by SSC for “operational security” reasons, the command said on Tuesday. “Following the initial rapid-acquisition task order, this second task order zeroes…