Skyloom Enters the European Market With Joint Venture
The new venture, called Skyloom Europe, will establish a facility in northern Italy to manufacture optical communications terminals to support multi-orbit satellite networks.
EO Providers Defend Their Spectrum Access
Commercial EO providers contribute to sectors ranging from agriculture to climate monitoring to defense—and now they’re banding together to make sure policymakers know the results of an administration-ordered study could put all of that in jeopardy.
Space Force Turns to TAP Labs To Bridge Tech Gaps
“TAP Lab has done an amazing job of bridging the Valley of Death in R&D.”
PLD Space Reveals Heavy Lift Launch and Crewed Spacecraft Plans
Spanish rocket startup PLD Space’s 10-year roadmap includes big plans for large reusable rockets and crewed spacecraft.
Dude, Double VICTUS! Impulse Wins Two Tactical Space Missions
Military officials chose Impulse Space to fly two different tactically-responsive demonstration missions with its high-powered spacecraft in 2026.
The Increasing Allure of Polar Orbits: An Explainer
Military, commercial, and climatological interests have increasingly picked polar orbits for a variety of missions,
Sierra Space Enters the Delivery Business
Sierra Space won a $980,000 AFRL contract to study how its Ghost reentry spacecraft could provide point-to-point delivery services for the US government.
Argo’s Tug Joins The Lunar Water Race
A provider of “in-space transportation with in-space propellant.”
ULA’s Second Vulcan Certification Flight is Ready for Liftoff
ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket is less than 24 hours away from trying to prove it’s got the right stuff to launch the nation’s big-ticket military payloads.
Op-Ed: Standardized Launch, Reentry Regs Will Support a Growing Industry
The FAA’s mandate is to focus on public safety, and the long wait times are understandable, given the agency’s current method of reviewing applications. But the cadence is not sustainable if we want the industry to continue to grow.
The Airline Industry is Moving to Free Wi-Fi and Starlink
200 Mbps Wi-Fi offered for free sounds pretty good to me. What’s in it for the airlines? Is Starlink going for the sweep? What happens to the GEOs?
US Second To China in Commercial Remote Sensing Ranking
China has bested the US in the commercial remote sensing Olympics, at least according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
