Commercial Space

The state of California has signed an agreement with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite operator Iceye.

Linse Capital said Oct. 5 it was putting more attention on early-stage aerospace and defense companies.

Satellite manufacturer York Space Systems will support a set of future U.S. Space Force missions in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO).

NorthStar Earth & Space, a startup providing sats for space situational awareness, debuted as a publicly traded company but saw its stock price lose ground.

Space entrepreneur Walt Anderson aims to deploy airships to provide affordable telecommunications to underserved markets in Southeast Asia, Africa or the Caribbean.

Portuguese space component maker Omnidea says it has acquired what is left of British rocket startup Orbex, which folded this year.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States has approved Astranis Space Technologies for a $468 million credit facility to fund the expansion of its domestic satellite production.

Momentus, Inc., has reported the successful completion of a rendezvous and proximity operations demonstration.

Katalyst Space’s first robotic servicing satellite reentered the atmosphere Sept. 25.

Google plans to deploy a first test satellite carrying its tensor processing units for its orbital data center ambitions next month.

Hubble Network has raised a $200 million Series C round that it plans to use to grow its Bluetooth-connected satellite constellation to 60 spacecraft by 2030.

Voyager Technologies and Exobiosphere have announced two additional research campaigns aboard the International Space Station.

Belgium is headed to the lunar surface with Space Applications Services disclosing plans for its 2029 mission to the south pole of the Moon.

Rideshare integrator and space services provider Exolaunch has signed a contract with SpaceX for a Starfall microgravity research mission slated to launch on a Starship mission in 2029.

Vast, the developer of a commercial space station, has started a lunar programs division and unveiled several products intended to serve NASA’s Moon Base program.

ClearSpace says it has secured European Space Agency backing to further develop its Phoenix geostationary orbit rendezvous and proximity operations technology.

The number of planned very low Earth orbit missions in the coming years has surged from a handful to at least 24 by the end of 2030.

Australian spacecraft imaging specialist HEO is looking to expand its systems to geostationary orbit (GEO), supported by a new funding round.

Isar Aerospace co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Josef Fleischmann is exiting the launch startup to set up a business looking to pursue in-space technologies.

Vast is still planning to launch its Haven-1 demonstration space station early next year, CEO Max Haot said, after resetting the schedule earlier this year.

Aspiring direct-to-device market players are gathering radio-frequency spectrum and laying out strategies, but they have yet to solve regulatory, technical and pricing problems.

L3Harris Technologies has begun to build the first Earth-observation satellites for partner Xoople, which aims to turn on its new system in 2028.

Space42 and Viasat have committed $1 billion to shared space infrastructure to formalize their Equatys joint venture plan for a direct-to-device communications constellation.

European startup Space Cargo Unlimited said it has signed a contract with SpaceX for a Starfall space manufacturing mission that would launch aboard a Starship flight in 2028.

Fresh off its inaugural successful orbital mission, Isar Aerospace has secured orders for five dedicated launches from Seops Space.