Europe’s progress on future access-to-space gains momentum with upcoming reusable launcher flight test
Following the successful launch of Ariane 6 in 2025, Europe’s access to space ambitions gain momentum.
Engineering Behind EarthDaily: Solving for Global Daily Coverage, Scientific Quality, and High-Spectral Diversity
Broad-area change detection only matters if the measurement behind it is stable.
Re-framing orbital debris: from a statistical to dosage approach
Humanity gains insight on how to operate in space with every satellite that we launch. True learning comes from doing; otherwise we lock into lab-born biases that come from asking the wrong questions.
Momentus prepares to host 10 demonstration payloads on Vigoride 7 flight
SAN FRANCISCO – Momentus’ Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle is at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of a 10-month mission to demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations, robotic in-space assembly, advanced communications and computing technologies.
Space Force seeks market answers on in-orbit refueling
A new RFI poses questions to industry on future refueling architecture
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AST SpaceMobile wins $30 million contract for military broadband demo
The Space Development Agency will explore the use of commercial satellites to test direct-to-device connectivity for future warfighting network
Aalyria hits $1.3 billion valuation after raising funds for satellite mesh network
Aalyria announced a $100 million funding round Feb. 23 that values the Californian venture at $1.3 billion, supporting deployment of laser terminals and software for dynamically routing data across space, air and ground networks.
Boeing demonstrates large language model for space-grade hardware
SAN FRANCISCO – Before uploading a large language model to space-grade hardware, Boeing Space Mission Systems engineers sought guidance from the hardware manufacturer.
Meink, Saltzman make case for Space Force expansion
Meink: How the future force is designed ‘will be critical as the Space Force expands even faster in the next few years’
NASA delivers harsh assessment of botched Boeing Starliner test flight
NASA on Thursday blamed what it called engineering vulnerabilities in Boeing's Starliner spacecraft along with internal agency mistakes in a sharply critical report assessing a botched mission that left two astronauts stranded in space.
The US space agency labeled the 2024 test flight of the Starliner capsule a "Type A" mishap - the same classification as the deadly Challenger and Columbia 
