Reaction Dynamics prepares for takeoff
SAN FRANCISCO – With funding from the Quebec government and private investment, Canadian launch startup Reaction Dynamics is completing development and preparing to qualify its RE-202 hybrid rocket engine.
Revolutionizing Space Tech: A Cutting-Edge Alternative to Optical Solar Reflectors
Pentagon’s mega-constellation still hampered by supply chain issues: GAO report
GAO’s latest annual assessment of the Defense Department’s major weapons systems scrutinizes the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture
THE COMMERCIAL SPACE FEDERATION (CSF) ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD OFFICERS
June 11, 2025 – Washington, D.C.
Sierra Space doubles down on defense
The Colorado-based company announced the formal launch of Sierra Space Defense
BAE Systems brings South Korea’s Hanwha into intelligence-gathering constellation
BAE Systems has partnered with South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Systems to explore using its synthetic aperture radar technology in Azalea, the British defense prime’s planned intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance constellation.
Electron launches third iQPS satellite in three months
Rocket Lab launched a radar imaging satellite for Japanese company iQPS June 11, the third launch for that customer within three months.
Rocket Lab completes eighth Electron launch of 2025 deploying fifth iQPS satellite
Rocket Lab has successfully executed its 66th Electron mission, deploying the QPS-SAR-11 satellite for the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space (iQPS). The launch marks Rocket Lab's second mission for iQPS in just 25 days and its fourth overall, all completed with full mission success.
Lifting off from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 15:31 UTC on June 11, the mission-titled "The PLD Space advances MIURA 5 launch capability with TEPREL C engine tests
PLD Space has reached a critical milestone in the development of its MIURA 5 orbital launcher by completing integrated testing of its TEPREL-C rocket engines. This progress marks a significant step toward the start of the engine's flight qualification campaign, which is slated to begin at the end of June.
The Spanish aerospace company emphasizes propulsion as the foundation of its technolo Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads
The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't expect to see drifts of tiny, bright orange glass beads glistening among the otherwise monochrome piles of rocks and dust.
The beads, each less than 1 mm across, formed some 3.3 to 3.6 billion years ago during volcanic eruptions on the surface of the then-young satellite 
