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Satellite shows what’s really happening at the East Wing of the White House
You need to go up—way up—to fully appreciate the changes underway at the White House this week. Demolition crews starting tearing down the East Wing of the presidential mansion Tuesday to clear room for the construction of a new $300 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom, a recent priority of President Donald Trump. The teardown drew criticism and…
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SpaceX Launches Spain’s NG 2 Satellite to Orbit on a Veteran Falcon 9 Rocket
SpaceX successfully launched the SpainSat NG 2 satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket late Thursday evening from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral U.S. Space Force Station in Florida. The Airbus-built SpainSat NG 2 satellite, built for the Spanish Ministry of Defense and Spanish operator Hisdesat, was delivered to geosynchronous transfer orbit for…
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Kratos Awarded $68.3 Million Contract to Build Next-Gen Hypersonic Materials Testing Centre
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, a technology company in defense, national security, and global markets, announced that it has been awarded a contract through the Department of War’s Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program to design and build a state-of-the-art mid-tier arc jet and coupled fiber laser facility for hypersonic materials evaluation. Known internally to…
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Iceye Strengthens Position in Central Europe with New Slovakian Partner
Iceye is strengthening its position in central and Eastern Europe. It is forming a strategic partnership with EMIS, a provider of geospatial information systems in Slovakia, to expand access to critical, near real-time hazard information for Slovak authorities. The two companies announced the partnership, Oct. 23. Slovakia has a population of around 5.5 million people.…
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ispace and OrbitAID Signs Strategic Alliance to Advance Sustainable Lunar Missions
ispace, a global lunar exploration company, and OrbitAID Aerospace Private Limited (OrbitAID), India’s first on-orbit refueling company, announced a strategic partnership via a memorandum of understanding aimed at advancing sustainable lunar exploration and establishing long-term lunar operations. As part of the collaboration, OrbitAID plans to demonstrate its Standardized Interface for Docking and Refueling Payload (SIDRP)…
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China prepares to launch Shenzhou-21 crewed spaceship
The Shenzhou-21 crewed spaceship will be launched at an appropriate time in the near future, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Friday. The combination of the spaceship and a Long March-2F carrier rocket has been transferred to the launching area, according to the CMSA. All facilities and equipment at the launch site are…
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Rocket Lab Completes Photon Spacecraft for NASA and Eta Space’s Cryogenic Fueling Demonstration Mission
Rocket Lab Corporation, a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced the clearance of their Systems Integration Review (SIR) and completion of their Photon spacecraft for Eta Space and NASA’s LOXSAT mission. LOXSAT is an on-orbit technology demonstration of a cryogenic fluid management system, that will inform the design of Cryo-Dock, a full-scale…
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Airbus, Leonardo and Thales Unite to form Top European Space Venture
Airbus, Leonardo and Thales have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at combining their respective space activities into a new company. By joining forces, Airbus, Leonardo and Thales aim to strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy in space, a major sector that underpins critical infrastructure and services related to telecommunications, global navigation, earth observation, science, exploration and national…
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China’s ocean salinity satellite passes in-orbit tests
China’s first satellite dedicated to ocean salinity detection has passed all in-orbit tests, clearing the way for long-term use and marking a major breakthrough in the country’s space-based marine monitoring. Launched on Nov. 14, 2024, the satellite, also known as Ocean-4 01, is a scientific research satellite under China’s national civil space infrastructure program. It…
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Lockheed Martin Invests in Venus Aerospace’s Hypersonic Propulsion Technology
Venus Aerospace, the startup leader in next-generation rocket engine propulsion, announced a strategic investment in the company by Lockheed Martin through their investment arm, Lockheed Martin Ventures. The investment follows Venus’s historic May 2025 high-thrust test flight of its rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE), an event described by the Houston Chronicle as a “world first”…