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What’s Happening in Space Policy September 6-12, 2026

Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of September 6-12, 2026 and any insight we can ...

Starbase Infrastructure Advances Toward Flight 14

SpaceX is still building out assembly, test, and launch infrastructure at Starbase while Flight 14… The post Starbase In...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video)

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 6), sending them up from California's...

Cape neighbors Stoke and Relativity advance LC-14 and LC-16 toward first flights

Along Missile Row at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Stoke Space and Relativity Space are… The post Cape neighbors S...

What China’s Lop Nur desert base expansion means for PLA stealth jets in race with US

China is rapidly expanding a flight-test facility deep in its western desert, satellite imagery has revealed, a push tha...

German startup sends first commercial rocket into space from Europe

Isar Aerospace plans rapid expansion amid race to capitalise on expanding satellite-launch marketA German startup has la...

German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket

"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."

NASA expands Deep Space Network with giant new dish in California desert

The new antenna will boost capacity on NASA's increasingly strained deep-space communications network as Artemis and oth...

World’s most powerful lightning-chasing satellite joins China-Nepal flood relief efforts

China is using the world’s most powerful geostationary weather satellite to track severe thunderstorms over Nepal and de...

Turning dual-use technology into defense capability

What Japan now needs is an end-to-end implementation process that can transform dual-use technologies into operational c...

Isar Aerospace Completes First Successful Spectrum Flight

German launch services provider Isar Aerospace has completed the first successful launch of its Spectrum rocket, deployi...

German company launches rocket as Europe enters satellite race

Isar Aerospace says its 28-metre-long Spectrum rocket blasted off into space from Andøya spaceport in Arctic Norway.

German rocket reaches space as Europe enters satellite launch race

German start-up Isar Aerospace on Saturday launched its first rocket into space from a site in Arctic Norway, bringing E...

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Cape neighbors Stoke and Relativity advance LC-14 and LC-16 toward first flights Along Missile Row… The post appeared fi...

Isar Aerospace achieves first launch to orbit from continental Europe

Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying to give live lecture from space

Hong Kong’s first astronaut Lai Ka-ying and her two fellow Shenzhou-23 crew members will deliver a live lecture from spa...

Upcoming space summit to be worst Macron-organized event — media

According to Politico, the main issues are that the summit is running behind schedule, has not been coordinated with maj...

Watch Isar Aerospace try to make history today with launch from Norway

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket will attempt to become the first vehicle to reach orbit from European soil today (Sept....

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 226 — Who Owns The Moon?

On Episode 226 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Rainer Zitelmann to discuss the history...

China launches plan for 3D satellite network to monitor sun and cosmic explosions

China has started an international project to build a three-dimensional satellite network between Earth and the moon tha...

Brought in for civilian use, Starlink is now integral to Ukraine’s war effort

Russia’s latest attempts to jam the satellite network are about more than disrupting internet access; Starlink sits behi...

War on Earth could spill over to the moon, Chinese space scientists warn

In a rare study, Chinese aerospace researchers have explored how a war could one day spill into the vast space between t...

This NASA-funded 'Slingshot' spacecraft idea could map minerals on planets and moons across our solar system

NASA funded an early-stage concept aiming to show new techniques for mapping minerals on the moon, asteroids or Martian ...

Isar Aerospace attempts launch of Spectrum rocket after months of delays

The European private space launch provider Isar Aerospace, headquartered in Ottobrunn, Germany, is set to… The post Isar...

After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury

"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."

Talk is growing of a Tesla-SpaceX merger. Will geopolitics throw a spanner in the works?

One by one, Tesla Model Y Ls roll out of the company’s end-of-line inspection bays, gleaming in black, white and gold. T...

Blue Origin expands test and launch sites across the Cape

Blue Origin is expanding its Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral footprint on multiple fronts,… The post Blue Origin...

ST Engineering iDirect Demonstrates 5G NR-NTN User Equipment Modem 

ST Engineering iDirect reports it has demonstrated a pilot version of a multi-waveform 5G New Radio Non-Terrestrial Netw...

Planet’s Sovereign Wins Drive Nearly 60% Revenue Growth in Q2 

Planet grew revenue by nearly 60% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2026 and narrowed its net loss as the satellit...

You get a SCIF, you get a SCIF: Pentagon unveils ‘Secure Space Network’

The Secure Space Network will deploy close to 50 SCIFs around the nation to improve access to classified information for...

Sparkle and Hellas Sat Demonstrate Quantum Satellite Connection

Hellas Sat and Sparkle have worked together to achieve a quantum-safe satellite connection between Greece and Cyprus. Th...

Why did US space companies pull out of a French space meeting? It’s complicated.

"Let me be clear: America is not only welcome—we want you there."

Space industry lacks workers needed to rebuild satellites lost in war, report says

The U.S. does not have enough engineers, technicians and assemblers to rebuild military space assets destroyed in a war ...

Isar Aerospace Calls Off 4 September Spectrum Launch Attempt

German launch services provider Isar Aerospace appears to have scrubbed a planned 4 September attempt to conduct the sec...

Wet tees on Starlink: Army’s desert trial reveals commercial tech challenges, opportunities

“Before we go spend quadruple the cost” on bespoke tech, “there some things that we can do” to make a commercial option ...

Rocket Report: China debuts yet another new rocket; NASA considers bulk buys

Two of Europe's leading launch startups announced new fundraising this week.

China’s Commercial Space Sector Is Going Public

A Shanghai listing rule has made orbital flight the price of entry for China's rocket startups. The post China’s Commerc...

Trump’s Audacious Golden Dome Faces Challenges

A huge price tag and undeveloped technology hang over the program.

German Space Situation Awareness Startup Project-S Emerges from Stealth

Munich-based space situational awareness startup Project-S has emerged from stealth with what it describes as “multi-mil...

GGPEN and ANPG Launch Project to Monitor Angola’s Inland Basins Using Satellite Data

Angola’s National Space Programme Management Office (GGPEN) and the National Agency of Oil, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) laun...