Satellites

By Robert Wall
OHB is seeing new opportunities in military space and expects sales to rise around 50% by 2027 from last year to hit around €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion).
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
MaiaSpace says it has entered into its first commercial launch service agreement, signing up French space-logistics company Exotrail.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
ESA will issue an invitation to tender for the European Launcher challenge next week, the agency’s director general says.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
OHB is setting up a subsidiary in the UK as it looks to win a slice of the potentially increasing British defense market.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
Rocket Lab is often considered an also-ran, but since 2018 it has accumulated a track record of nearly 60 successful launches.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The demonstrator consists of two 6U cubesats designed by NRO’s advanced systems and tech directorate to support an “experimental technology research mission.”
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
Boeing and Northrop Grumman are vying for both contracts.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
The communications satellite has L-band and Ka-band payloads.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The Space Force is preparing to counter on-orbit threats and contribute to high-profile defense programs.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Garrett Reim
BlackSky’s says its proprietary AI software system can rapidly detect vehicles, aircraft, vessels and buildings within images gathered by its Gen-3 satellite.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
Rocket Lab is to pay $75 million in cash or shares, with potential earn-outs of $75 million in cash or shares.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
Isar Aerospace and the Norwegian Space Agency have agreed to work together to launch the Arctic Ocean Surveillance system.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Thales Alenia Space has secured the contract from Telespazio to build the satellites for the European Space Agency’s planned Moonlight lunar navigation system.
Satellites

By Mark Carreau
SHEREx and PUNCH have lifted off at last, ridesharing on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, for years-long science missions aiming to reveal secrets of space.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
The multisensor satellites will be funded internally, with launches due in 2027 and 2028.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
Satellite communications company SES has invested an undisclosed amount in Lynk Global, a direct-to-device satellite constellation startup.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
Kymeta of Redmond, Washington, makes multiple types of electronically steered array flat panel antennas.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The agency has tapped 13 vendors to compete for orders worth a total of around $490 million over the next five years under the Luno initiative.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The March 7 solicitation is among the U.S. Air Force’s corrective actions after Viasat filed a bid protest against two contract awards.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
Thales Alenia Space secured another large GEO satellite contract, showing there is still life in a spacecraft market that has become a pain point for Europe.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The agency is developing a new satellite constellation in low Earth orbit known as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
Satellites

By Chen Chuanren
Singapore-based Transcelestial will place its satellite-to-ground laser communication system on the 6GStarLab satellite, a low-Earth-orbit spacecraft.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
Planet aims to use Claude’s reasoning and pattern recognition abilities to analyze its daily scan of Earth, the company said on March 6.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The service could readily exchange data with the members of its Commercial Integration Cell (CIC), including Intelsat itself.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
The Ariane 6’s second flight, mission VA263, took off at 11:24 a.m. ET March 6 from the European spaceport at French Guiana.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion