The sudden loss of satellite communications would lead to widespread disruption, affecting vital services such as air travel, maritime logistics and emergency response with an estimated economic impact of up to €20 billion. To highlight the economic importance of satellite-enabled connectivity, London Economics prepared a report for the European Space Agency (ESA), examining the effects of a hypothetical week-long outage of satellite communications across ESA Member States and Canada.

Morocco signed the Artemis Accords April 29, becoming the third country to do so in the last 10 days.

Chinese launch startup Cosmoleap has secured significant funding for its reusable rocket plans as it works towards a debut launch in 2027.

What did space deliver for Europe this month? From the Moon to low Earth orbit and beyond, here’s what the European Space Agency has been up to.

The United States captures just 2.1 percent of Central Asia’s critical mineral exports, while China takes 49 percent and Russia roughly 20 percent. The numbers describe a strategic position that engineering teams would call brittle: a single-supplier architecture with no redundancy, no failover, and rivals controlling both the upstream extraction and the downstream processing. For […]

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A House appropriations subcommittee advanced a spending bill April 30 that would keep overall NASA funding at 2026 levels, rejecting a 23% cut proposed by the White House.

In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Arcfield’s Kevin Kelly on how he’s thinking about AI, how he defines space superiority and what needs to happen to make […]

The estimated $355 million deal would make All.Space a wholly owned subsidiary of York Space

SAN FRANCISCO – Planet is developing a new version of its Tanager spacecraft with enhanced capability to detect and monitor methane and trace-gas emissions.