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Intelsat and Cubic³ Complete a Vehicle Satellite Connectivity Test
Intelsat and Cubic³ have completed a vehicle satellite connectivity test that the companies said demonstrated an integration between Intelsat satellites and Cubic³’s software platform. This test announced Wednesday is part of a collaboration between Intelsat, Cubic³, and SoftBank Corp. that aims to create a connectivity solution for the land mobile industry with both cellular and…
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ST Engineering iDirect Awards Saudi Net Link For Excelerator Sustained Excellence
ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, has announced Saudi Net Link (SNL) as the winner of its Excelerator Sustained Excellence Award at CABSAT 2025. Illustrating the value of long-term partnerships, the award recognizes SNL’s exceptional role in driving continuous excellence in innovation, creating demand and advancing the satellite communications industry in the…
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ClearSpace: Pioneering Sustainability Beyond Earth
ClearSpace, a Swiss company focused on developing and implementing in-orbit servicing (IOS) solutions, particularly in the area of space debris removal, is pioneering a new era of sustainable space solutions. Their vision towards clearing space debris made them the world’s first company to initiate a mission to remove debris from orbit. Also Read: What are…
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Arabsat Signs Telesat Deal for Lightspeed Capacity Pool
Arabsat and Telesat sign term sheet for Lightspeed services. Photo: Arabsat Arabsat has signed a term sheet with Telesat for a Gbps capacity pool of Telesat Lightspeed connectivity services. Arabsat plans to integrate Telesat Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (services) into its multi-orbit satellite ecosystem. The companies announced the term sheet on Wednesday during the CABSAT 2025…
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SpaceX launches 475th Falcon 9 rocket to date on afternoon Starlink flight
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 6-67 mission on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now SpaceX returned to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Wednesday afternoon with its Falcon 9 rocket. The company launched…
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Zeno Power raises $50M in funding to fuel development of next-gen nuclear batteries
An artist’s conception shows a lunar rover powered by a nuclear battery. (Zeno Power Illustration) Zeno Power, a startup that’s headquartered in Seattle as well as Washington, D.C., today announced the completion of a $50 million funding round to boost the development of nuclear batteries for maritime and space applications. The Series B round was…
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Intuitive Machines’ CEO points to issues that prevented upright touchdown during IM-2 Moon landing
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lander, named Athena, is pictured on its side, lying on the Moon’s surface following touchdown on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Image: Intuitive Machines The third attempt to land on the Moon for Houston-based Intuitive Machines is coming up in less than a year and the company said Tuesday it understands how to…
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Varda Space Capsule Successfully Returns to Earth After Hypersonic Reentry Test
Varda Space Industries on Tuesday said its W-3 capsule successfully landed in South Australia following two months on orbit in a test of an inertial measurement technology in the high-hypersonic reentry environment. Varda partnered with the U.S. Air Force on the mission under the Prometheus program, in which the two are collaborating on to rapidly conduct…
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SES Space & Defense Joins Defense Innovation Unit’s Hybrid Space Architecture Project
SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, joins the Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Hybrid Space Architecture Network initiative. SES’s Hybrid Space Architecture II project will showcase an automatically orchestrated secure integrated multi-orbit network that interconnects commercial and government networks to deliver assured and affordable, low-latency, multi-path communications across a scalable and resilient multi-domain…
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If Congress actually cancels the SLS rocket, what happens next?
The White House Office of Management and Budget dropped its “skinny” budget proposal for the federal government earlier this month, and the headline news for the US space program was the cancellation of three major programs: the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft, and Lunar Gateway. Opinions across the space community vary widely about the…