Satellites

The call came before sunrise in Mahia, New Zealand. Less than 17 hr. later, Rocket Lab launched a company-built satellite to space with its Electron rocket.

German satellite-maker OHB expects to raise €510 million ($580 million) through a planned capital raise.

MDA Space says it has agreed to buy RTX’s smallsat-maker Blue Canyon in a deal that would give the Canadian buyer a satellite production foothold in the U.S.

Boeing says its Q4S quantum networking satellite system has successfully demonstrated entanglement swapping during a ground test.

Rheinmetall has signed a agreement with satellite imagery services provider Vantor in the German armored vehicle maker’s expanding push into space.

Portugal is expanding its fleet of synthetic aperture radar satellites a year after embarking on the project with Iceye.

Hensoldt says it is offering a mobile jammer for satellite-based navigation signals with an eye on critical infrastructure protection.

The French government has signed an eight-year contract with Eutelsat to assure for Eutelsat OneWeb services to bridge to the European IRIS2 secure satellite. communications systems and add capacity.

Shares of SpaceX closed up 19% in regular trading June 12 after the space and artificial intelligence giant’s record-setting initial public offering.

Satellite manufacturer K2 Space says it has secured its first program of record.

Thales Alenia Space To Build Next Copernicus Sentinel-1 Satellite

Astroscale has launched an initiative to gather data on spacecraft materials to help researchers better model the likely effects of satellites re-entering and burning up in the atmosphere.

The European Space Agency has awarded Thales Alenia Space a contract to develop and build the Copernicus Sentinel-1 Next Generation Earth-observation satellite.

The Federal Communications Commission granted Amazon a limited, conditional waiver of its requirement to meet a 50% deployment milestone for the company’s Leo broadband-internet constellation.

Finish space startup Iceye says it has raised €450 million in a further funding round that values the synthetic aperture radar business at over $12 billion.

Infinite Orbits of France and Open Cosmos in the UK plan to demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations technologies on a mission in mid-2027.

L3Harris Technologies is in talks with launch service providers to support the planned rollout of a new Earth imaging system it is developing with Xoople.

Muon Space has unveiled plans to develop Condor-Ultra, a flat-packing spacecraft sized to fill the payload fairing of SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle.

NATO is looking to enhance the functionality of the Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space (APSS) program.

Despite extensive damage from the the explosion of a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on its launchpad, the company is aiming to return to flight before year-end.

NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal, launched to enable interoperability between satellite relay networks, has completed its planned demonstration phase.

K2 Space says it expects to see at least 36 satellites being built in 2028 as the company scales up its production plans.

The U.S. Space Force has tapped Blue Origin to support a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) launch as early as late 2027.

The U.S. Space Force’s plans to procure new commercially derived satellite communications (satcom) spacecraft and services have been extended.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to stand up an initial space-based air moving target indication (AMTI) constellation by 2028.