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Could United Launch Alliance's money problems finally force its owners to sell?
ULA is preparing to resume launching the Vulcan rocket in the coming weeks.
No location · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailRocket Report: Europe joins the commercial launch club; a Ravn X sighting?
"We felt like now is the time to pour gas on that fire."
No location · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailScientists discover mysterious new X-ray objects 'unlike any they have seen before'
Faint in X-rays but bright in ultraviolet light, new objects found by NASA's Chandra space telescope could help solve tw...
No location · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailAvio Completes Integration of FD1 Rocket Demonstrator
Italian rocket builder Avio has completed integration of its FD1 flight demonstrator, marking a major milestone in prepa...
No location · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailA team of teams like never before: rehearsing a unique launch at ESA mission control
On 15 September, two spacecraft will leave Earth together aboard the same launcher from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou: FL...
Kourou, French Guiana · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailKorean Air to offer free Starlink high-speed wifi on board flights from Sept 15
The airline plans to extend the service across most of its fleet by the end of 2027.
South Korea · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailEuropean SpaceX Rival Raises $450M to Build Rocket Engine
Helene Huby, The Exploration Company CEO and Founder, talks to Bloomberg's Daybreak Europe about raising $450 million in...
No location · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailInternational Space Summit Highlights the Strength of Europe’s Space Ecosystem
Efforts by the US government to rain on Europe’s parade this week backfired. The post International Space Summit Highlig...
No location · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailRocket Lab launches 31.5%-efficient inverted metamorphic space solar cell
Rocket Lab has released its high-efficiency IMM Apex solar cell, eliminating costly and scarce germanium substrates whil...
No location · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailLatConnect 60 Expands India Market Presence for SWIRSAT With NSIL Agreement and GeoSyze Partnership
Australian Earth observation satellite company LatConnect 60 (LC60) has strengthened its position in India with two stra...
Bengaluru, India · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailMacron shoots for the moon with pitch to Europe’s struggling space sector
Also in this newsletter: Europe keeps buying more Russian gas
No location · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailRapidus president considering chip plant on moon around 2040
Rapidus Corp. President and CEO Atsuyoshi Koike said Thursday he is seriously considering building a semiconductor plant...
No location · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailGalaxia Raises $4.5M For Intelligent Sat Tech
Galaxia raised $4.5M CAD ($3.25M) to continue its mission to make EO sats that can process info in orbit at the speeds r...
Canada · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailMercury’s radius has shrunk by over 10 kilometers, Japanese team finds
A spacecraft from the Japan-Europe joint exploration mission BepiColombo is set to arrive on Mercury in November.
No location · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailKorean Air takes free, high-speed Wi-Fi to the skies
Korean Air said Friday it will begin offering free high-speed internet via SpaceX's Starlink satellite system, becoming ...
Seoul, South Korea · Sep 11, 2026 · WedgetailNASA Invites Governors to Compete to be Home to the New U.S. Space Academy
NASA issued a Request for Information today inviting governors to indicate interest in hosting and sponsoring the new U....
United States · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailRoman telescope deploys solar array and communication systems, powers on Coronagraph Instrument
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched on Sunday, Aug. 30, atop a SpaceX… The post Roman telesco...
Cape Canaveral, United States · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailSpaceX is inching closer to this lofty $100 billion milestone
SpaceX has set an ambitious revenue target and a newly disclosed computing-power deal could get the company a bit nearer...
Hawthorne, United States · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailTomorrow.io Unveils Next-Gen Weather Forecasting Instruments
Tomorrow.io announced the five instruments that will fly aboard DeepSky—its next-gen constellation built for real-time g...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailNASA Invites Media to Djibouti Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony
The Republic of Djibouti will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 11 a.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 14, at NASA Headq...
Djibouti · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailSpace: Europe urged to find its path, from crewed spaceflight to communications
French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on Thursday for Europeans...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailToyohiro Akiyama, Japan’s Chain-Smoking ‘Space Antihero,’ Dies at 84
A journalist, he was the first Japanese person to enter space, joining a Soviet crew as part of a spectacular $35 millio...
Japan · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailNASA Answers President’s Call to Establish United States Space Academy
Less than two weeks after an Executive Order was signed to create the first United States Space Academy, NASA-led work i...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailMaiaSpace Wins First Long-Term Asia Customer Deal
Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS) has tapped MaiaSpace, the up-and-coming French launch provider, to launch a...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailYork Space to Build Tomorrow.io’s Next-Gen DeepSky Constellation
Tomorrow.io has selected York Space Systems to build the initial phase of its next-generation DeepSky weather monitoring...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailTrustPoint CEO Previews Constellation Build-Out With EnduroSat Deal
TrustPoint is moving forward to build out its GPS-independent PNT constellation plans, tapping EnduroSat US to build 40 ...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailTop Air and Space Force leaders will gather amid unresolved Iran war, budget uncertainty
The Joint Chiefs chairman, Space Force’s new leader, and the NASA administrator are all scheduled to speak at next week’...
Washington, United States · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailEutelsat Taps Airbus and Aerospacelab for OneWeb and IRIS² Satellites
Eutelsat announced major orders of satellites to support service continuity for the OneWeb constellation, and Europe’s I...
Paris, France · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailEurope will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument
Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailOn this day in space! Sept. 10, 2011: NASA launches GRAIL probes to the moon to map lumpy lunar gravity
On Sept. 10, 2011, NASA's GRAIL spacecraft launched on a mission to the moon! Here's why the moon gravity mapping missio...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailLINK spacecraft gets close to NASA's Swift Observatory, but not close enough to save it
Operations aboard the Katalyst Space LINK satellite continue, despite the spacecraft's inability to complete its mission...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailNASA, NFL Team Up to Showcase Space, Aeronautics Innovation
Through a new collaboration between NASA and the National Football League (NFL), the agency will soon bring America’s st...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · Wedgetail3D printing to colonise Mars after the Moon: the biomaterials tested by scientists
As the Artemis programme readies a Moon landing with an Italian habitat module, research tests 3D-printed homes on Mars ...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailInternational Space Summit: Europe plays catch-up with US and China
The space sector is booming. The global industry expected to reach a value of €2 trillion mark by 2040. But behind this ...
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailBRICS and the new scramble for space
Behind the rhetoric of Global South solidarity lies a familiar game of patron-client diplomacy.
No location · Sep 10, 2026 · WedgetailWatch: FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch on Vega-C
The European Space Agency’s FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite are scheduled to launch together abo...
No location · Sep 09, 2026 · WedgetailHong Kong’s first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, delivers live lesson from space
Hong Kong’s first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, will deliver a live lesson from space to students and teachers at her alma mat...
Hong Kong · Sep 09, 2026 · WedgetailStoke Space raises $1 billion for fully reusable rockets, targets 'early 2027' for 1st-ever launch
Stoke Space announced a $1 billion round of funding to support development of its fully reusable Nova rockets, including...
No location · Sep 08, 2026 · Wedgetail1,000 Museum Visitors Dive Into NASA Sea Level Science on World Ocean Day
More than 1,000 visitors explored NASA sea level science firsthand during World Ocean Day at the University of Georgia A...
No location · Sep 08, 2026 · WedgetailNASA’s Hubble, Webb Find Far-out Solar System Objects ‘Remember’ Past
For the first time, scientists used the joint power of NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of th...
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