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T-Mobile’s satellite-based cellular service, provided by SpaceX’s Starlink, now supports data for a variety of smartphone apps, including video chat software.

SpaceX is targeting Oct. 13 for the next Starship-Super Heavy flight test.

Space service providers are battling it out in the direct-to-device market.

Launch service providers are promising higher flight cadences—again.

SpaceX launched the National Reconnaissance Office’s latest mission to build out its proliferated satellite architecture in low Earth orbit.

The Taiwan Space Agency is moving ahead with its first domestically developed communications satellite program.

Astranis has contracted Impulse Space to directly inject its MicroGEO communications satellite into geostationary orbit in 2027 using the Helios kick stage.

SpaceX is in talks with countries to give them sovereign satellite communications capabilities, says Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president.

The United Arab Emirates’ Space42 and Viasat are hoping to attract partners in their new direct-to-device global low Earth orbit satellite service venture, Equatys.

SpaceX is looking to fly the first of a new iteration of its Starship launch system late this year or early next year.

The dominance of government money in space infrastructure investment and the emergence of direct-to-device comms are to define sat manufacturing.

SpaceX sees its Falcon 9 launch cadence peaking as the company ramps up operations of its Starship launch vehicle, a company executive says.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Sept. 14 to send Northrup Grumman’s first upgraded Cygnus XL cargo ship on its way to the International Space Station.

Finnish satellite manufacturer ReOrbit has raised €45 million in a Series A funding round, one of the largest European space deals of the year thus far.

Aspiring space station operator Vast plans to launch its Haven-1 demo station next year.

SpaceX says it has struck an agreement with EchoStar to acquire the rights to 50 MHz of S-band spectrum to support expansion of Starlink direct-to-cell service.

JetBlue Airways plans to introduce next-generation satellite inflight connectivity (IFC) from Amazon onboard a portion of its fleet beginning in 2027

The U.S. Space Force is racing to deploy a batch of National Security Space Launch missions before the end of the year.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Skylo Technologies says it is working with mobile phone chipset providers to roll out the service commercially.

Following a trio of failed flight tests, SpaceX’s new launch system completed a full-duration demonstration.

Generating some 16.5 million lb. of thrust, the 404-ft tall Starship-Super Heavy headed toward a suborbital trajectory for a planned 66-min. flight demonstration.

The Italian Space Agency signed an agreement with SpaceX to fly several science payloads on an upcoming Starship mission or missions to Mars.

SpaceX’s 10th flight test of a Starship-Super Heavy launch system remained on hold Aug. 25 following a scrub due to lightning concerns at the company’s Boca Chica Beach, Texas, spaceport.

NASA's 33rd SpaceX-contracted Cargo Dragon resupply mission successfully docked to the U.S. segment of the International Space Station early Aug. 25.