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Belgium’s Simera Sense has won a contract to provide multispectral imagers for a small constellation being designed to track wildfires, volcanic activity and other regional priorities for the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain.

First light from the Hellenic Fire System

The Hellenic Fire System has returned its first image, marking an important milestone in Greece's future national space-based wildfire monitoring capability.

Unpacking Europe’s new weather imagers

Tuesday, 07 July 2026 07:00
MTG-I2 was taken out of its protective casing at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

The second Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2) has begun its launch campaign, during which it will go through final inspections before being fitted inside the fairing of the Ariane 6 rocket that will launch it into space towards the end of the summer. So how will this 3800 kg satellite help improve weather forecasts for Europe and North Africa?

Spectrum launch

Isar Aerospace has signed a contract to develop a Canadian launch site for its Spectrum rocket, an agreement linked to a deal to sell submarines to the Canadian military.

Iridium Communications has completed its takeover of Aireon, bringing the aircraft-tracking venture fully in-house ahead of the satellite operator’s planned $8 billion sale to Rocket Lab.

In new images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to celebrate its fourth science anniversary, a familiar galaxy transforms into something far richer, and far more complex, than ever seen before. Webb’s unprecedented sensitivity across near- and mid-infrared wavelengths cuts through the thick lanes of dust that obscure Centaurus A’s centre in visible light, showing a densely packed tapestry of individual stars and an active, everchanging galaxy. These images mark four years of better-than-anticipated performance and successful science operations for the most powerful space telescope in history.

An illustration of a satellite communications network. Credit: NASA

MILAN — NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition program (CSDA) announced June 23 contract awards with eight new commercial satellite data providers, three of which are European: Kuva Space (Finland), OroraTech […]

There is only technology. How it is employed is a question of intent, context and political will, not of the technology itself.

The company is positioning its Endura computing for classified and missile-defense satellite programs

Paris, France | May 2026 – Novaspace’s latest In-Flight Connectivity report points to sustained, long-term growth in the In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) market, with connected aircraft numbers to exceed 70,000 by 2035.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – June, 2026 The Centre for Space Futures (CSF), together with leading international partners including Novaspace, and SpaceTech Gulf, have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to […]

HELSINKI — China’s Tianwen-2 sample return spacecraft has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, revealing the near Earth asteroid to be a small, elongated rocky body.

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