ESA Keeps the Door Open for More Defense Funding
ESA plans to keep subscriptions for a new defense initiative open for the next year, which usually finalizes funding at the close of each three-year ministerial meeting.
ESA plans to keep subscriptions for a new defense initiative open for the next year, which usually finalizes funding at the close of each three-year ministerial meeting.
The age of robot pilots has arrived—not for your next commercial flight, thankfully, but for satellites on orbit.
Next week is the official start of “let’s circle back on that in the new year” season—but not for Congress, where lawmakers have a handful of time-sensitive priorities on their holiday to-do list.
Firefly Aerospace released its Q3 earnings results after market close yesterday, posting quarterly revenues of $30.8M—98% higher than Q2.
On Monday, Rocket Lab ($RKLB) and AST SpaceMobile ($ASTS) released their financial results for the third quarter of 2025.
Gravitics unveiled Diamondback, a smaller orbital carrier designed to fulfill missions from protecting US national security satellites to deploying space-based missile interceptors.
The Bothell, WA-based space maneuverability startup has unveiled Starburst, an ESPA-class vehicle that can maneuver payloads in orbit.
The Voyager Technologies ($VOYG) family is getting a little bit bigger. The broad-spanning space tech company announced Monday that it is acquiring ExoTerra Resource, a CO-based company building electric satellite propulsion systems. The companies did not disclose the financial details of the deal.
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.
“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.
If you think space is crowded now, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
The official relocation to the Redstone Arsenal installation is the latest chapter in a multi-year back-and-forth that started in the final days of Trump’s first term.
These sats will form a mesh network of optical communications links to provide global, low-latency comms for the DoD.