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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 · WedgetailWithout 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 · WedgetailPrivate group wants to launch "cheapest possible" mission to Alpha Centauri
"We could really be facing the great filter."
No location · Sep 01, 2026 · WedgetailWatch 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 · WedgetailThe Powder Keg in Outer Space
How to head off a new arms competition.
No location · Sep 01, 2026 · WedgetailNASA'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 · WedgetailLaunch 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 · WedgetailWhat'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 · WedgetailSpaceX, 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 · WedgetailIn 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 · WedgetailMedia 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 · WedgetailSpeed 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 · WedgetailStarlink 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 · WedgetailNASA'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 · WedgetailSpace 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 · WedgetailCommercial 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 · WedgetailSpace 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 · WedgetailLearning 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 · WedgetailMTN 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 · WedgetailSES 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 · WedgetailStarlink Is Live in Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea just became Starlink’s 30th African country. On August 29, 2026, both the official Starlink account an...
No location · Aug 31, 2026 · WedgetailRoman lifts off on a mission to survey the infrared sky
Image: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Cen...
No location · Aug 31, 2026 · WedgetailRocket Lab launches Japanese radar satellite to orbit on 'Owl Around the World' mission (video)
Rocket Lab launched a Japanese synthetic aperture radar satellite to orbit on Sept. 2 for Synspective, a Tokyo-based Ear...
No location · Aug 31, 2026 · WedgetailSLS picks up the pace, four vehicles in production
The NASA and contractor workforce continues to make progress ahead of next year’s Artemis III… The post SLS picks up the...
No location · Aug 31, 2026 · WedgetailRoman Space Telescope Begins Its Journey to L2
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched at 7:26 am ET on Sunday from KSC aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, sta...
No location · Aug 30, 2026 · WedgetailTrump calls in to NASA press conference to celebrate launch of Roman Space Telescope, a mission he tried to cancel
President Trump interrupted a NASA press conference today (Aug. 30) to congratulate the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescop...
No location · Aug 30, 2026 · WedgetailNancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Lifts Off to Open New Insights Into the Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off this morning on a mission to find more planets around other stars in...
No location · Aug 30, 2026 · Wedgetail'What a glorious dawn launch': Why the Roman Space Telescope's picture-perfect liftoff beyond Earth is such a big deal
"We're just about to set foot off into the unknown."
No location · Aug 30, 2026 · WedgetailWhy it matters that President Trump just dialed in to a NASA news conference
With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.
No location · Aug 30, 2026 · WedgetailLiftoff! NASA's Roman Space Telescope soars to the stars on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in spectacular launch (video)
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Aug. 30, ushering in a...
No location · Aug 30, 2026 · WedgetailNASA's Roman Space Telescope is ready for launch aboard SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is poised to lift off with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Aug. 30. This observato...
No location · Aug 29, 2026 · WedgetailNASA, SpaceX successfully launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Florida
NASA and SpaceX have launched NASA’s next great space observatory — the Nancy Grace Roman… The post NASA, SpaceX success...
No location · Aug 29, 2026 · WedgetailESA awards first European Launcher Challenge contracts
The European Space Agency has signed the first contracts under its European Launcher Challenge, committing… The post ESA...
No location · Aug 29, 2026 · WedgetailHere’s what Trump’s new ‘Space Academy’ could mean for the US military
A new source for commissioned officers—but is it needed?
No location · Aug 28, 2026 · WedgetailTrump Honors Artemis II Crew, Signs Executive Order to Establish a U.S. Space Academy
President Trump signed an Executive Order today during a ceremony honoring the Artemis II crew that will create a NASA-l...
No location · Aug 28, 2026 · WedgetailHere's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced
"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."
No location · Aug 28, 2026 · WedgetailIn space, everyone can hear you stream: Challenges ahead of the corporate space data race
Private companies are driving the rise of space-based data centers, but it is not yet clear who will own, govern, and ac...
No location · Aug 28, 2026 · WedgetailOrbex’s Sutherland Spaceport Assets Sold to Scottish Development Agency
Scotland’s Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has acquired the assets of Sutherland Spaceport Ltd, an Orbex subsidia...
No location · Aug 28, 2026 · WedgetailAfrica’s V-Band Gambit: Why Fragmented Millimetre-Wave Rules Could Cost the Continent at WRC-27
This analysis draws on regulatory documentation from Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa, the three African markets where V...
No location · Aug 28, 2026 · WedgetailLaunch Concerns Cast a Shadow Over SmallSat 2026
Unless something changes in the launch market—and soon—the space industry might be running 100mph into a brick wall. The...
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