Stories on space business, including company updates, funding announcements, and contract awards.
It’s earnings season for Q3. This week, a pair of primes—Lockheed Martin ($LMT) and Northrop Grumman ($NOC)—and satcom operator Iridium ($IRDM) reported their revenues for the third quarter. We’ve got the roundup of all the space-related tidbits inside. Lockheed Martin: Lockheed’s overall earnings are up and beating projections for the year, and its space business […]
There’s a new combo forming in the direct-to-device sector—and it’ll have key access to a high-priority band of spectrum to help it compete in the growing field. Lynk Global, a satellite operator with a constellation of D2D and IoT-enabled satellites, plans to merge with telecom firm Omnispace to expand their business across both commercial and […]
Vantor—the artist formerly known as Maxar Intelligence—is expanding its relationship with the DoD through another in-space awareness contract. The company will work with Space Force’s Joint Commercial Operations program to provide in-space imagery and analysis on high-interest objects in space, particularly those objects located in blind spots that can’t be seen by ground-based sensors. “Often, […]
“We’re doing this on our own dime,” he said. “We are just trying to do our part, and then if we do a good job here, we hope that great folks who make interceptors will want to work with us and partner with us—and we can help supply their constellations.
Muon Space will integrate Starlink’s mini-laser terminals into future iterations of Muon’s Halo satellite platform as soon as 2027.
If you want to launch from Europe, be prepared to queue for a while.
This week, Beyond Gravity became the latest European parts manufacturer to expand its production facility.
A new entity is trying to bridge the language gap between space startup execs and policymakers.
European space agencies, satellite manufacturers, and parts suppliers have spent 2025 pouring capital and concrete to boost their sovereign, high-skilled manufacturing capacities.
Despite two solid efforts, ispace has yet to successfully land on the lunar surface—and the company’s financial position reflects that.
A young Indian sustainability startup is getting its feet wet in orbit during an international joint mission. OrbitAID, a Bangalore, India-based startup building satellite servicing and sustainability tech, has signed a contract to supply ground fueling services and a refueling port to Aussie firm Space Machines Company in support of the upcoming MAITRI mission, a […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced yesterday that it awarded Safran Federal Systems a contract to develop robust and reliable quantum sensors to improve the US military’s PNT architecture in multiple domains, including in space. To effectively manage its troops and personnel across the world, the DoD says it needs extremely—and increasingly—precise ways […]
