Tag: Launch
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Momentus Secures Funding from NASA and AFRL SpaceWERX Contracts
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company offering satellite buses, technologies, transportation, and other in-space services, announced that it received payments totalling approximately $1.9 million in January 2026 for contracts with NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL’s) SpaceWERX organisation. Momentus received payments in January 2026 in connection with: Qualification and integration of a…
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Myriota Introduces AssetHawk for Global Asset Tracking
Myriota, the global leader in secure, low-power satellite connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the launch of AssetHawk™. A rugged, long-life asset tracker, AssetHawk is engineered to deliver reliable global visibility beyond the reach of traditional cellular networks. As supply chains grow increasingly complex, blind spots and outages in terrestrial coverage create significant…
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ULA Vulcan Rocket Launches USSF-87 Mission for US Space Force from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket carrying the USSF-87 mission for the United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) lifted off on Feb. 12 at 4:22 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. “Early during flight, the team observed a significant performance anomaly on one of the four solid…
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Magellan Aerospace Expands Space Services with Satellite Integration and Test Capabilities
Magellan Aerospace, a global aerospace company with more than six decades of experience in aerospace and space systems, highlights the expanding space services offerings that support satellite missions from early development through to final testing and qualification. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Magellan Aerospace provides mission-adapted services that integrate advanced engineering, state-of-the-art facilities and deep domain…
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Stoke Space Extends $860 Million Series D Financing
Stoke Space Technologies, the rocket company developing fully and rapidly reusable medium-lift launch vehicles, announced an extension of its previous Series D financing, bringing the total amount raised in the round to $860 million. The round was initially announced in October 2025 at $510 million. That funding focused on completing activation of Launch Complex 14…
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VORAGO and wolfSSL Partner for Space Cybersecurity and Radiation Shielding at SmallSat 2026
VORAGO Technologies, a radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant chip provider for space applications, announced a software partnership with wolfSSL, a company specializing in embedded cryptography for secure systems successfully for the last 20 years, at SmallSat Symposium 2026. This unique partnership delivers radiation-hardened chips with built-in, standards-based cryptographic security for orbital missions, designed for scale from the…
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Isar Aerospace Advances Europe’s Launch Capabilities with the Spectrum Launch Vehicle
Isar Aerospace continues to strengthen Europe’s access to space through the development of Spectrum, the two-stage orbital launch vehicle designed to deliver small and medium satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). As a privately funded European launch company headquartered in Ottobrunn, Germany, Isar Aerospace is focused on providing flexible, reliable and cost-efficient launch services to…
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Infleqtion and NASA to Fly the World’s First Quantum Gravity Sensor to Space
Infleqtion, a global leader in quantum sensing and quantum computing powered by neutral-atom technology, announced its role as a collaborator on NASA’s Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder (QGGPf) mission. Led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the mission will fly the first quantum sensor capable of measuring the Earth’s gravitational field and its gradients; signals that…
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NRO Expands Multi-Phenomenology Remote Sensing Solutions
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) announced the first tranche of three awards under its Strategic Commercial Enhancements Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) for advanced commercial remote sensing capabilities. This innovative acquisition approach marks NRO’s shift to multi-phenomenology solutions, including electrooptical (EO), hyperspectral imaging (HSI), radar, radio frequency (RF), and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), to deliver…
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AST SpaceMobile Successfully Completes Unfolding of BlueBird 6
AST SpaceMobile, the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by everyday smartphones, designed for both commercial and government applications, announced the successful unfolding of its next-generation BlueBird 6 satellite. BlueBird 6 features the largest commercial communications array antenna ever deployed in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Spanning approximately 2,400 square feet,…