CNES has awarded a Loft Orbital-led consortium a €50 million contract to develop the DESIR synthetic aperture radar demonstrator.

SAN FRANCISCO – Weather intelligence startup Tomorrow.io unveiled DeepSky, a satellite constellation designed to refine atmospheric forecasts by gathering the vast quantities of data needed to feed artificial intelligence models. DeepSky, a proliferated low-Earth orbit constellation, will be “a quantum leap in all dimensions,” Rei Goffer, Tomorrow.io co-founder and chief strategy officer, told SpaceNews. Individual satellites in the DeepSky constellation, announced Jan.

SAN FRANCISCO – Italian space logistics specialist D-Orbit has raised $124 million in the first closing of a Series D investment round announced Jan. 22. “This funding will enable strategic acquisitions, accelerate the build-out of D-Orbit’s orbital logistics infrastructure, expand in-orbit transportation services, scale industrial capacity for ION missions and advance new operational capabilities required for a congested orbital environment,” Luca Rossettini, D-Orbit founder and CEO, said in a statement.

A tank built for Rocket Lab’s Neutron rocket was damaged during qualification testing, threatening to further delay the vehicle’s first flight.

Opinion: If Berlin were to commit to a national nuclear weapons option, old resentments among Germany’s neighbors could resurface.

Blue Origin aims to start deploying more than 5,400 satellites from late next year for its own Starlink broadband competitor, targeting up to 6 Tbps capacity for enterprise, data center and government customers.

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ESA Member States have committed an additional €73 million to SWISSto12’s HummingSat micro-geostationary satellite project.

Much of the president’s signature defense shield isn’t even supposed to be based on land.

Airbus is facing opposition from unions as it moves to consolidate its satellite business by absorbing Airbus Constellations Satellites.

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The U.S. Space Force is looking for advanced technologies for space-based interceptors that can intercept ballistic missiles during their boost phase.

Sodern, a French manufacturer of star trackers and cameras, is expanding into the United States with a new production facility in Colorado.

A key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) that was damaged last fall is expected to remain offline until May, followed by extended downtime for upgrades.

The use of Earth Observation satellites in support of emergency response is not new: operational since October 2020, the International Charter "Space …

Contrary to US government rhetoric, the cost of US import tariffs are not borne by foreign exporters. Instead, they hit the American economy itself. Importers and consumers in the US bear 96 percent o...