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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has ordered two dedicated Electron launches from Rocket Lab, the first of which will launch as soon as this December.  This is Rocket Lab’s first launch deal with JAXA, but the company has signed a number of recent launch agreements with Japanese customers: a 10-launch deal with Synspective and…

Welcome to Edition 8.14 of the Rocket Report! We’re now more than a week into a federal government shutdown, but there’s been little effect on the space industry. Military space operations are continuing unabated, and NASA continues preparations at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for the launch of the Artemis II mission around the Moon early…

IoT provider Semtech has integrated Skylo’s satellite network into its platform, to offer a complete device-to-cloud terrestrial and satellite IoT solution from a single provider. The companies announced the integrated offering on Oct. 9, saying it automatically switches between terrestrial and satellite networks for continuous connectivity when IoT devices leave the range of cellular towers.…

Amazon’s Project Kuiper has made inroads into the Central Asian market of Uzbekistan, a country with a population of around 36 million people. Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Digital Technologies has signed an MoU with Kuiper as both parties look to enhance Uzbekistan’s telecoms infrastructure and expand access to high-speed internet across Uzbekistan through the Project Kuiper…

Momentus will host an in-space crystallization demonstration for NASA and also demonstrate a new thruster on orbit under two recently announced contracts.  Under a $5.1 million contract from NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, the company’s Vigoride orbital service vehicle will fly the Commercial Orbital System for Microgravity In-Space Crystallization (COSMIC) demonstration. COSMIC will use the microgravity…