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SpaceX Targets Pecan Island for Third US Launch Site
The confirmation follows months of speculation about SpaceX expanding its domestic launch infrastructure beyond its current locations. The company operates Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, and launches from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The Pecan Island location covers approximately 18 miles of coastline in south Louisiana. As of August 2, 2026, the plan has been confirmed…
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Rocket Factory Augsburg Halts UK Launch Debut After Pad Test Reveals Vehicle Issue
RFA had previously expected the launch to take place in August or September. The company said it would de-stack the staged rocket and provide more details as its investigation continues. It did not disclose the nature of the issue. RFA One is a three-stage rocket designed to launch smaller satellites. It will eventually include a…
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Stratolaunch Passes 10 Successful Talon-A Hypersonic Flights
Talon-A flies through Earth’s atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound, the threshold that defines hypersonic flight. Stratolaunch operates two of the vehicles, each about 28 feet long with an 11.3 foot wingspan, and drops them from carrier aircraft to test sensors and advanced materials in the hypersonic flight environment. “Reaching more…
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Boeing’s Starliner set for potential 2026 cargo run to ISS
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has noted redesign work on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is advancing well, though the company must still coordinate with NASA on future launch plans. The comments, made during Boeing’s latest earnings call, mark the clearest public update in months on the troubled commercial crew vehicle. “The redesign of the Starliner…
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Intermap to Buy Out PCI Geomatics for $11 Million, Merging Elevation Models With Image Processing
The acquisition merges PCI’s proprietary remote sensing algorithms with Intermap’s high-resolution 3D digital elevation models. Earlier this year, PCI launched UrbanSAR, a product designed to track shifting buildings in cities from space. Intermap framed the timing against exponential growth in Earth observation data volumes as more sensors are added in low Earth orbit, a shift…
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Four Sky Events Converge on August 12 in Rare Skywatching Window
The day opens with the moon partially covering the sun over Alaska, eastern Canada and parts of the northeastern United States. A total solar eclipse will track along a narrow path across eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain, drawing eclipse chasers to those regions. Roughly 779 million people across North America, Europe and North…
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China Sends TJS-27 Pair Into New Orbit, Orbits First Third-Generation Tianlian Relay
A Long March 6A lifted off at 9:00 p.m. Eastern July 29 from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation announced launch success and identified the payloads as communication technology test satellites 27A and 27B. Hours earlier, a Long March 7A lifted from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 7:50 a.m. Eastern,…
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Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward an attempted rescue of NASA’s $500 million Swift gamma-ray observatory suddenly spun out of control. It didn’t look good. The spacecraft, named Link, was rotating on multiple axes, rendering it unable to maintain a reliable communications link with…
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The Key Forces Shaping the Space Economy: Who Is Really Growing—and Who Is Just Telling a Story?
If launch costs have fallen to a fraction of their level 20 years ago, why has the global space economy not grown at the same pace? Over the past decade, reusable rockets have reduced the cost of reaching orbit by an order of magnitude, while the number of satellites launched has increased severalfold. Yet the…
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Resecurity Joins Space ISAC to Strengthen Space Cybersecurity Collaboration
Cybersecurity company Resecurity has joined the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC), expanding the organization’s network of members focused on strengthening cybersecurity across the global space sector. The membership is intended to support collaboration on cyber threat intelligence, digital risk management and the protection of critical space infrastructure. Resecurity Expands Space Security Role…