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Sierra Space Completes Critical Design Review for SDA Tranche 2 Missile Tracking Satellites
Sierra Space, a Defense Tech company delivering solutions for the nation’s most critical missions and advancing the future of security in space, announced the successful completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Tracking Layer (T2TRK), affirming technical readiness to begin production of advanced missile tracking satellites for…
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Astranis and Impulse Space Sign Agreement for 2027 Mission
Impulse Space, the leader for in-space mobility, and Astranis, manufacturer of advanced high-orbit satellites, signed a contract for an upcoming mission to GEO. Targeting a 2027 launch, the mission will utilize a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch to low Earth orbit (LEO), where it will deploy Impulse’s Helios kick stage. Leveraging chemical propulsion via its…
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GEESATCOM Completes Sixth Orbital Launch with 12 Satellites
The sixth orbital plane of GEESATCOM was successfully launched in China, deploying 12 satellites in a single launch. This marked the third consecutive launch within two months, with all satellites entering their designated orbits and operating normally. Following this launch, with 64 satellites now in orbit, GEESATCOM has completed Phase I networking. The constellation delivers…
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Sidus Space Secures Five-Year Defense Contract with Tobyhanna Army Depot
Sidus Space, an innovative space and defense technology company, today announced it has been awarded a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract under the Tobyhanna Army Depot (TYAD) Industrial Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) program. This award enables Sidus Space to provide fabrication and on-call services for critical components used in TYAD’s operations, including: Electrical…
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Report argues NASA is illegally using President’s Budget Request to circumvent Congress’ budgeting process
The Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in Washington D.C. Image: NASA Update Oct. 1, 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC): Added new responses from NASA; update noting that the shutdown began on Oct. 1, 2025. A new report from the Democratic staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (CST) argues that NASA…
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In their own words: The Artemis II crew on the frenetic first hours of their flight
How calm, cool, and utterly chill is the crew of NASA’s first Moon mission in more than half a century? Let’s start with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. “You know me, personally, I hope to take a very short nap on the pad,” he said. “There’s enough time built in there to have a nap. I’ve…
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Lanteris CEO Chris Johnson on the Company’s New Identity, Post-Maxar Rebrand
The Maxar name is being retired, with two sides of the company moving forward with new identities. The spacecraft manufacturing business, formerly Maxar Space Systems, is now Lanteris Space Systems; and the imagery and sensing business, formerly Maxar Intelligence, is now Vantor. This comes about two years after the two businesses split into separate companies…
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ViaSat-3 F2 satellite arrives in Florida ahead of late October launch
The ViaSat-3 F2 satellite in the El Segundo, California, Boeing satellite factory ahead of containerization and shipment. Image: Erik Isakson / Boeing) The ViaSat-3 Flight 2 spacecraft, the next geostationary satellite for communications company Viasat, arrived in Florida in the early morning hours of Tuesday. This six-ton (more than 13,000 lbs) satellite is the second…
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Greenland’s Top Telco Taps Eutelsat for LEO Connectivity
Eutelsat’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity is set to take a more prominent role in Greenland, thanks to a deal between Eutelsat and Tusass, Greenland’s national provider of telecommunications services. The expanded partnership will enable the delivery of secure and resilient communications across the country’s vast and remote territory. The two companies announced the deal, Oct.…
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ESA Contracts Thales Alenia Space for SAGA Cryptographic Mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Thales Alenia Space a further contract for the SAGA mission to develop a space-based system for generating cryptographic keys. The contract announced Wednesday covers the system definition and preliminary design of a fully European end-to-end quantum key distribution (QKD) system for governmental use under SAGA, the name for…