Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 07, 2025
The Austrian Space Agency and the European Space Agency have extended the mission for the PRETTY CubeSat, which will continue under the OPS-SAT Space Lab with management transferred to Graz University of Technology. PRETTY, developed jointly by TU Graz, Beyond Gravity Austria, and Seibersdorf Laboratories, has orbited for over two years in a sun-synchronous polar orbit at an altitude just

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2025
A group of undergraduate students from the University of New Hampshire, Sonoma State University, and Howard University have collaboratively designed and built a CubeSat called 3UCubed, now scheduled for launch on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, no earlier than November 10, 2025. The small satellite mission is linked to NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Accelerat

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2025
EchoStar has amended its agreement with SpaceX to sell its entire portfolio of unpaired AWS-3 spectrum licenses for approximately $2.6 billion in SpaceX stock, valued as of September 2025. These nationwide licenses are part of 3GPP Band 70n, providing uplink frequencies from 1695 to 1710 MHz, and the deal builds on an earlier agreement between the two companies announced in September. The

HydroGNSS

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After arriving at the California launch site at the end of September, the two HydroGNSS satellites have been carefully prepared for liftoff, scheduled this month.

HydroGNSS – a twin-satellite mission – marks the European Space Agency’s first ‘Scout’ venture. By harnessing signals from navigation satellites, HydroGNSS will help scientists gain new insights into key climate variables linked to water.

Wellington (AFP) Nov 5, 2025
New Zealand is planning a national space mission which could see a small fleet of state-owned satellites launched into the skies over the Pacific nation, a minister told AFP on Wednesday. "Actions to progress to a large-scale mission are being advanced," Minister for Space Judith Collins said. The mission would involve sending up "one or more government-owned satellites" for "regular cov

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 5, 2025
One of two planned launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station lifted off Wednesday night. SpaceX's mission went off as scheduled but the United Launch Alliance flight scheduled for two hours later was scrubbed and delayed by at least 24 hours. If both launches went off in the doubleheader, the yearly record of 93 from Florida will be tied. The other Space Coast site is the

Kourou (AFP) Nov 4, 2025
A European Ariane 6 rocket blasted off from France's Kourou space base in French Guiana on Tuesday night, carrying a new environmental monitoring satellite, an AFP correspondent said. Lift-off was at 6:02 pm local time (2102 GMT) and is the third commercial flight of the Ariane 6 launch system since the expendable rockets came into service last year. The rocket was carrying a Sentinel-1D

Washington (AFP) Nov 4, 2025
President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut Jared Isaacman to head NASA, again tapping the close associate of Elon Musk to lead the US space agency. The nomination, announced by Trump on Truth Social, came six months after the president withdrew his initial nomination of Isaacman to lead NASA amid a bitter row with Musk. If confirmed by the