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News•Mar 1, 2026
UK Space Firm Skyrora Explores Buying Assets of Struggling Rival Orbex
Skyrora, a Glasgow‑based small‑satellite launch provider, announced a preliminary interest in acquiring select Orbex assets, including the Sutherland Spaceport, for up to £10 million. Orbex, the Inverness‑based micro‑launcher developer, entered administration after unsuccessful fundraising and merger attempts. The potential deal could give Skyrora immediate access to a ready‑made launch site and Orbex’s pending commercial contracts for its Prime launcher. The move occurs as the European Space Agency’s €900 million Launcher Challenge funds multiple European launch firms, highlighting a competitive push for sovereign launch capability.
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News•Mar 1, 2026
UAE Extends Mars Probe Mission Until 2028
The United Arab Emirates announced a three‑year extension of its Hope Mars probe, keeping the mission active until 2028. The orbiter has already transmitted ten terabits of atmospheric data, far surpassing its original one‑terabit target, and has also studied Deimos...
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News•Mar 1, 2026
Chang'e-6 Farside Samples Reshape Lunar Impact History
Scientists using Chang’e-6 far-side samples have shown that lunar impact fluxes are statistically identical on the near and far hemispheres, validating a global cratering chronology. Radiometric ages of 2.8 Ga basalt and 4.247 Ga norite, combined with local crater densities, fit within...
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News•Feb 26, 2026
Superconducting Thruster Cuts Power and Mass for Space Propulsion
Chinese researchers unveiled a compact high‑temperature superconducting magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) thruster, replacing bulky copper coils with YBCO superconductors. The new design slashes power consumption from 285 kW to under 1 kW and trims mass from 220 kg to 60 kg, making it viable for small...
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News•Feb 24, 2026
Prometheus Starts Work on New Indiana Solid Rocket Motor Campus
Prometheus Energetics, a joint venture between Kratos Defense and RAFAEL, broke ground on a 600‑acre solid rocket motor campus in Bloomfield, Indiana. The facility will house four production lines capable of delivering up to 800 tons of domestic energetics annually, with...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Russian Era Ends at Abandoned Launchpad in South American Jungle
Russia’s Soyuz launchpad in Kourou, French Guiana, was abandoned overnight in 2022 after European sanctions forced Russian teams to leave. The site, once prized for its equatorial location, has been reclaimed by jungle growth and now sits vacant. French start‑up MaiaSpace,...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
KSAT Prepares Hyperion in Orbit Relay Test for Satellite Data
KSAT is moving its HYPER concept from design to an on‑orbit demonstration with the Hyperion satellites, which will act as space‑based relays to shorten data latency for customer spacecraft. Announced at the SmallSat Symposium, the mission will validate S‑band telemetry...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4798-4803: Back for More Science
Curiosity revisited the Nevado Sajama drill site to apply a second vial of tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) to the powdered sample, preparing it for deeper analysis with the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite. The rover successfully delivered the treated sample to...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Pale Blue Opens Tsukuba Site to Scale Satellite Propulsion Production
Pale Blue has launched its Tsukuba Production Engineering Base, a 1,911‑square‑metre facility that consolidates development, manufacturing, testing and shipping of satellite propulsion systems. The vertically integrated plant features ISO Class 8 cleanrooms, vacuum chambers and vibration‑testing tables to enable mass production...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
ST Engineering iDirect and G&S SatCom Align Network and Service Management on Intuition
ST Engineering iDirect has partnered with G&S SatCom to embed the SatConnect module into its next‑generation ground system, Intuition. The integration creates a unified network and service management layer that spans multi‑vendor satellite infrastructures and offers a single pane‑of‑glass interface....
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Hypersonica Completes Milestone Hypersonic Missile Flight Test in Norway
Hypersonica completed its first hypersonic missile flight test at Andoya Space in Norway, propelling the prototype above Mach 6 and covering more than 300 kilometers. All systems performed nominally, delivering sub‑component data at hypersonic speeds. The company achieved this milestone in just...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Airbus Taps Synspective SAR Radar Network for Expanded Earth Imaging
Airbus Defence and Space has signed a framework agreement with Japan’s SAR specialist Synspective to integrate its satellite constellation into Airbus’s existing radar portfolio. The combined fleet, including TerraSAR‑X, TanDEM‑X and PAZ, will improve revisit times and expand coverage, especially...
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News•Feb 17, 2026
SatService to Supply Q V Band Satcom Ground Station for Bundeswehr University
SatService GmbH, a Calian Group subsidiary, secured a contract from Germany's Federal Ministry of Defence to deliver a Q V‑band satellite ground station to the Bundeswehr University in Munich. The solution features a 4‑metre high‑performance antenna and full‑service integration, enabling geostationary‑orbit...
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Deals•Feb 4, 2026
Muon Space Secures $146M Series B Funding to Accelerate Satellite Constellation Deployment
Muon Space announced it has closed a $146 million Series B financing round, providing capital to expand its multi-mission satellite constellation operations and develop in-house propulsion technology. The new funding will support accelerated launch cadence, production capacity growth, and further...
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Deals•Jan 28, 2026
Balerion Space Ventures Invests $100M in Northwood Space's Series B Round
Balerion Space Ventures has invested in Northwood Space's $100 million Series B funding round, aimed at building terrestrial ground infrastructure for the expanding space economy. The capital injection underscores Balerion's focus on foundational systems needed to scale commercial and government...
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Deals•Jan 21, 2026
Stratolaunch Secures Major Funding From Elliott Investment Management and Cerberus
Stratolaunch announced a significant equity raise, adding Elliott Investment Management as a new investor alongside existing backer Cerberus Capital Management. The undisclosed funding will be used to expand hypersonic test and flight services, increase production capacity, and accelerate flight cadence...
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