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Astroscale Selects Isar to Launch Debris Removal Mission

Astroscale Japan selected Germany’s Isar Aerospace to launch its ADRAS-J2 mission to capture and remove a piece of large...

No location · Sep 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites to orbit on its 35th flight

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 Starlink satellites from California early this morning (Sept. 2). It was the 35th f...

No location · Sep 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Is Russia's rival to Starlink failing? Here's what we know.

At least three of the first 32 Rassvet satellites likely suffered outright failures, and more may be in trouble.

No location · Sep 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Third spacewalk completed for Sophie Adenot

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir successfully completed US EVA-99 at 21:29 CEST on Tuesday 1 ...

No location · Sep 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
HyImpulse Extends Series A Funding Round by €50 Million

German launch services provider HyImpulse announced on 2 September that it had extended its Series A funding round by mo...

No location · Sep 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Cluster’s encore for reentry science a success

The Cluster mission danced its final dance as Tango reentered the atmosphere on 1 September, at 23:30:31 CEST. The end o...

No location · Sep 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Kenya and Tanzania Deepen Regulatory Cooperation on Satellite Communications

The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) undertook a two-day benchmarking visit to the Communications Aut...

No location · Sep 02, 2026 · Wedgetail
Starlink Is Now Live in Uganda

Starlink’s Uganda story has been running for the better part of a year, and it just reached its real starting […] The po...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
House Clears FY2027 CR, Now to the President

A full month before FY2027 begins, the House today joined the Senate in passing a Continuing Resolution (CR) to avoid a ...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Two astronauts replace ISS camera and docking aid on 6th-ever all-female spacewalk (video)

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot replaced a camera and a docking aid during a 6-hour, 49-minu...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Inmarsat Maritime Launches New Safety Data Hub

Inmarsat Maritime is launching a new product to provide new insights as well as direct access to the comprehensive analy...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Nonprofit wants to launch 80,000-year mission to Alpha Centauri in 2029 (video)

The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a small, cheap probe to Alpha Centauri in the next few years, to inspire furt...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Kymeta Lands $20M DoD Order for Osprey u8 Satcom Terminals

Kymeta secured an order from a branch within the U.S. Department of Defense for 100 Osprey u8 multi-orbit satcom termina...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Telesat Considers Space-to-Ground Optical Coms with Cailabs 

Telesat will consider adopting space-to-ground optical communications capabilities through a new strategic collaboration...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Launch Site and Facility Progress ahead of East Coast Starship debut

As SpaceX prepares to launch Starship Flight 14 in the coming weeks, work in Florida… The post Launch Site and Facility ...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Trump Orders Study To Establish US Space Academy

Is the US about to add a new service-academy rivalry to college football Saturdays? The post Trump Orders Study To Estab...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed really well

Independent safety officials also have high praise for changes by NASA leadership.

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Exclusive: Helogen Plans Two In-Orbit Manufacturing Missions in October

While Helogen has flown subsystems in the past, the missions will mark the first flights of the entire HEL-IOS platform....

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Despite Delays, China Could Gain Ground in the Space Race

While the U.S. still holds considerable advantages gained through its earlier lunar explorations, China’s planned missio...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Fermi Explorer Wants to Reach Another Star for $15M

The Starcloud cofounders announced the Fermi Explorer mission, launching humanity’s first mission to Alpha Centauri by 2...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
PLD Space Adds €108 million to Series C Funding Round

Spanish launch services provider PLD Space has secured an additional €108 million in funding, extending the Series C rou...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program

NASA's cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn't include the helicopters.

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Private group wants to launch "cheapest possible" mission to Alpha Centauri

"We could really be facing the great filter."

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
Watch 2 astronauts take 6th-ever all-female spacewalk today

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and France's Sophie Adenot will conduct the sixth all-female spacewalk outside the Internati...

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
The Powder Keg in Outer Space

How to head off a new arms competition.

No location · Sep 01, 2026 · Wedgetail
NASA's doomed Swift space telescope restarts science work after rescue mission fails

NASA's Swift space telescope has resumed science observations after a private mission failed to boost its decaying orbit...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Launch Preview: Array of international launches planned this week

Six missions are scheduled to launch from launch sites across the globe this week. After… The post Launch Preview: Array...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
What's next for Roman Space Telescope? Here's how NASA's flagship observatory will open up the universe

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has left Earth, but it'll be a while before it starts its highly anticipated sc...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
SpaceX, NASA delay next astronaut launch to ISS due to leak on Dragon spacecraft

The launch of SpaceX's Crew-13 mission to the ISS, previously scheduled for Sept. 12, has been delayed due to an oxidize...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Media briefing: BepiColombo's next milestone towards Mercury

Video: 01:09:40 Rewatch the European Space Agency's 31 August 2026 online press briefing on the latest developments of t...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
In space, the UAE is choosing capabilities, not camps

Washington and Beijing frame space as a binary contest, but the UAE is quietly building capability from both.

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Speed to Field Starts Below the Prime

I have spent much of my career looking at the defense industrial base from different vantage points: as a warfighter, in...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Starlink Closes In on Fibre as Zimbabwe’s VSAT Subscriptions Hit Record 86,488

Starlink has narrowed the gap to the fibre subscriber base in Zimbabwe, driving the country’s VSAT subscriptions to a re...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

"We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our largest survey."

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Space Force struggling to integrate commercial space data: Officials

“We have to have a better linkage between our acquisitions officers, or staff, and our operators,” Col. Tim Trimailo, he...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Commercial space is not an endless field of innovation: an assessment of the good, the bad, and the ugly

The growth of the commercial space industry is seen by some as a way to help the US government to do more with less. Cha...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Space has a billionaire problem, but it also has a billionaire solution

Many in the public see space as primarily a playground for billionaires. Kelsie Goddard argues that while that reputatio...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
Learning from a satellite servicing mission's failure

In mid-August, NASA announced it was calling off an effort to reboost the orbit of its Swift space telescope because of ...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
MTN Uganda Partners With Starlink to Bring Satellite Connectivity to Remote Areas

MTN Uganda has partnered with Starlink to extend satellite-enabled connectivity to enterprise customers operating in rem...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail
SES Awards OHB €1 billion for IRIS2 MEO Satellites

European satellite operator SES has awarded OHB a contract worth almost €1 billion to develop and build satellite platfo...

No location · Aug 31, 2026 · Wedgetail

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