Welcome to the IAC 2024 from Milan. Our (Morning) Show with Dr. Emma Gatti and Torsten Kriening provides you with interesting insights and outlooks on today’s event. In-depth but...
SpaceX has successfully conducted its fifth flight test of the Starship rocket on October 13, 2024, successfully attempting its "most ambitious" test objectives. Following a successful liftoff, ascent, stage...
Officina Stellare and Skyloom Global Corp have announced the signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the establishment of a Joint-Venture (JV), named Skyloom Europe. Skyloom Europe aims...
SpaceX has successfully conducted its fifth flight test of the Starship rocket on October 13, 2024, successfully attempting its "most ambitious" test objectives. Following a successful liftoff, ascent, stage...
Officina Stellare and Skyloom Global Corp have announced the signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the establishment of a Joint-Venture (JV), named Skyloom Europe. Skyloom Europe aims...
brain.space, creator of a Brain-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) Ecosystem for utilizing standardized Brain Data to develop Large Mental Models (LMMs) that better understand – and predict – human behavior, will exhibit...
The International Astronautical Congress is here!🚀 ESA Director General Dr. Josef Aschbacher joined Torsten Kriening to talk space, spotlighting the HERA mission and teasing big news on Moonlight and...
VISIMO has announced a contract with ABOVE Space Development Corporation to test its AI software system for decision support on the Space Development Corporation's upcoming payload mission.
Vast has unveiled its interior design features aboard Haven-1, its commercial space station. Vast’s inaugural station combines the functionality of its state-of-the-art facilities for scientific research, technological advancement, and...
Leaf Space, an Italian Ground Station-as-a-Service (GSAAS) company, has announced the reinforcement of its senior leadership team, to position itself towards further growth. The news follows a series of...
ispace, inc. and Asteroid Mining Corporation (AMC) have reached an agreement for a space robotics demonstration on a future ispace mission to the lunar surface. Both parties signed a...
BlackSky Technology Inc. has won a seven-figure contract to deliver non-Earth Imaging (NEI) services to support the client's Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities. As part of the contract, BlackSky...
The Dominican Republic has become the latest signatory to the NASA-Led Artemis Accords, joining 43 other countries. Sonia Guzmán, ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United States, signed...
Jens Stoltenberg will become the next Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) following the conference’s 61st edition in February 2025. Jens Stoltenberg has served as Secretary General of NATO...
The UAE Cabinet, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has approved the formation of the Supreme Space Council,...
Stellar Telecommunications SAS (“Stellar”) has successfully completed its latest funding round. Stellar’s funding, now amounting to €9.3 million, comes from a combination of strategic investors and major public grants....
ESA’s first planetary defence spacecraft, Hera, has launched away from and departed planet Earth aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, on...
PLD Space has unveiled its strategic plan at the Beyond_ event, which it held at its new headquarters to mark the first anniversary of the successful MIURA 1 launch....
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has won a NASA contract to complete a study for retrieving rock samples from the Martian surface and bringing them to Earth for the first...
Vast has appointed Siddharth (“Sid”) Hariharan as its first Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Hariharan brings over 20 years of investment banking experience, advising high-growth companies across the technology, consumer,...
Dawn Aerospace has demonstrated the rapid reusability of its rocket-powered aircraft, the Mk-II Aurora, with two flights within 8 hours. The flights took place from Glentanner Aerodrome on the...
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has completed testing and integration of its second Pioneer spacecraft for Varda Space Industries, Inc. Designed and built at Rocket Lab’s Spacecraft Production Complex and...
KP Labs is collaborating with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Forschungszentrum Jülich, and IBM Research under the European Space Agency's (ESA) initiative, regarding the the FAST-EO project. In its...
John Wensveen, Ph.D., newly appointed President of the International Space University (ISU), is spearheading the development of MOON SHOT 2030, a transformative strategic plan. Building on ISU’s 37 years...
Novaspace has released its 12th annual report ‘New Prospects for In-Flight Connectivity’ disclosing continued growth in the market. It highlights key global trends, including increasing connected aircrafts, the rise...
BlackSky Technology Inc. has won an approximately $6 million contract expansion from an international defense sector customer, bringing its total annual commitment to nearly $18 million, for subscription-based Assured...
Leanspace has won the France 2030 "UMBRELLA" Project, valued at €10.5 million, along with partners CySec and Constellation Technologies & Operations (CTO). The "Umbrella" project aims to address the...
Space42 has made its trading debut on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), following the successful merger completion of Bayanat and Al Yah Satellite Communications Company P.J.S.C. (Yahsat), the...
LeoLabs has announced the appointment of Karen D. Dacres as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary. Karen is a mission-focused leader who brings over 25 years of legal, non-traditional...
Space in Africa has released the 2024 edition of its African Space Annual Industry Report. Currently valued at USD 22.64 billion, the market is set to experience substantial growth...
The Deep Space Network (DSN) managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) successfully completed end-to-end test communications with Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander, an important milestone to demonstrate the lander’s...
The European Union Agency for the Space Program (EUSPA) has awarded a new contract to the GMV, to lead a consortium that will include Indra and Hisdesat as the...
Outpost Technologies has announced the appointment of Jamie Landers as President to further the growth of Outpost Space in the national security, civil and commercial space arenas.
In a demonstration of the growing ambition and national capacity of the Portuguese Space sector, Portugal witnessed the first launch of an atmospheric rocket from Santa Maria Island, in...
The Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) has awarded Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger the Polar Star Award – the Austrian Space Prize. Gernot Grömer, Director of the Austrian Space Forum awards presented...
HawkEye 360 has announced that it has won a third option year via a six-month contract extension of the Radio Frequency Emitter Data contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency...
The ESA Astronaut Reserve group will begin the first, out of three, two-month training programs at ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, in October 2024. This Astronaut...
D-Orbit, a leading global provider of cutting-edge in-space logistics services, has announced the second and final closing of its €150m [$166m] Series C Round, making one the biggest space...
NASA has awarded Starfish Space, a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to complete the Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) mission. The contract aligns with...
ispace technologies, inc. (ispace-U.S.) has announced the opening of the Summit Mission Control Center (MCC) in its headquarters in Denver, Colorado. The MCC serves as the ground segment hub...
Firefly Aerospace will undertake a NASA Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) mission to launch the QuickSounder environmental satellite on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
The European Space Agency ESA) and the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) have jointly inaugurated LUNA, a lunar analog facility that both parties will operate. The inauguration took place on...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Deimos Space the contract for its DRACO (Destructive Re-entry Assessment Container Object) mission, ultimately worth EUR 17 million. The launch is tentatively...
Ibadan, 25 September 2024. – TTTech Aerospace has received a BAE Systems ‘Partner 2 Win’ Gold Tier Award. They were selected from a pool of suppliers that delivered exceptional...
The solar sail aboard NASA‘s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) satellite has successfully deployed, using a spacecraft bus from Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics). Telemtry and images from the satellite's...
EDGE, an advanced technology and defence group, has launched a new space company, ‘FADA’, a name derived from the Arabic word for space. With the new space company, EDGE...
Sateliot has announced a successful Series B funding round, raising EUR 30 million with lead participation from Global Portfolio Investments. The 5G IoT company will consequently leverage the capital...
Heads of State from UN member states have adopted the Pact for the Future initiative, to ensure that international institutions can deliver in the face of a world that...
During the second Space for Island Nations Conference (SINC) at Crossroads Maldives, the Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO), in coordination with the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) and the Group...
constellr has announced that it has set up its French operations in Toulouse, aiming to benefit from the numerous opportunities for growth, R&D and commercial collaboration the region offers...
Ramon.Space, a global leader in space-resilient computing systems, has announced its selection for a groundbreaking program to develop next-generation digital onboard processors for large-scale communication constellations. This initiative enjoys...
Bellatrix Aerospace has unveiled Project 200, a technology demonstration mission to qualify a new unconventional satellite powered by a propulsion system at an Ultra-Low Earth Orbit (180-250 km). This...
BlackSky Technology Inc. has won a seven-figure data services contract from HEO to bring automated low-latency capabilities to non-Earth imaging (NEI) services for defense, intelligence and commercial use. Under...
Sirius Space Services (Sirius), has signed a contract with Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) for a multi-year, multi-launch campaign from the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) at the World Space Business...
Ibadan, 18 September 2024. – TNO has launched a new project called Qu-STAR to define the role of space in quantum information networks. The quantum internet currently faces distance...
Riverside Research, a national security nonprofit supporting the U.S. government, has selected NorthStar Earth & Space Systems to team on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Space-WATCH program...
Spaceflux has won the "Infra-Red Sensor Technology Demonstrator System for Space Domain Awareness" contract by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), a UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) executive...
MDA Space Ltd has selected Airbus to supply solar arrays for MDA AURORA TM, the software-defined satellite product line enabling constellations to extend communication networks to every corner of...
Unseenlab has released a new study revealing a significant number of vessels operating without Automatic Identification System (AIS) transponders, effectively invisible to traditional monitoring systems, in the remote "High...
CATALYST, a recent rebrand of PCI Geomatics, providing scalable solutions to process and extract critical information using Earth Observation (EO) satellites and aerial platforms, has established a hub in...
The Polaris Dawn mission crew have successfully returned to Earth, splashing off the coast of Florida at 3:36 a.m. EDT (07:36 a.m. GMT), after a five-day mission. After SpaceX...
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has awarded SES a contract to deliver secure high-performance low-latency satellite services via its medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation, enabling global missions...
The European Commission has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SPACE aisbl for the co-programmed European Partnership for Globally Competitive Space Systems (“Space Partnership”) in the context of Horizon...
Neuraspace and the Portuguese Air Force have announced their collaboration to enhance airspace safety and security as well as space sustainability. The partnership also marks the installation and use...
The West of Scotland Space Cluster, the newest addition to the UK’s thriving ecosystem of regional space clusters, has launched, ahead of Space-Comm Expo Scotland at SEC Glasgow 11-12...
The Polaris Dawn crew successfully launched aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to expand commercial space exploration from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew,...
Kuva Space has announced the successful completion of the Sunstorm CubeSat’s mission. After three years of operation, the Sunstorm satellite re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on September 4, 2024, at 10:30...
ICEYE has signed the contract for the Greek National Satellite Space Project Axis 1.2 (radar program) for the Greek Space Agency and the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance, together...
Telespazio and Altec have announced a strategic collaboration to bring Starlink satellite internet technology to schools and municipal offices in the Argentinian province of Río Negro, in Patagonia. This...
NASA has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency. The Agency's Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program...
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Senegalese Space Study Agency (ASES) have signed an agreement on International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) cooperation. The signature occurred on Thursday,...
Canopy Aerospace Inc. (Canopy) has announced its latest initiative in partnership with the U.S. Air Force on $2.8M in contracts. This effort, which is part of a broader push...
The Kenya Space Agency (KSA) has completed the installation of the Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART), enhancing the East African country's role in radio astronomy. The announcement happened on...
ALL.SPACE has announced the appointment of Paul McCarter as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. The company’s founder and former CEO, John Finney, will continue to support the business as...
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has set the launch window for its 53rd Electron Launch which will be the second of five dedicated launches for the French company Kinéis. The...
The third Copernicus Sentinel-2 (Sentinel-2C) satellite launched today, 5 September at 03:50 CEST aboard the final Vega rocket from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana, subsequently separating from the Vega...
Space Systems Command (SSC) has announced the successful delivery of the first mission payload for Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) sensing in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (NGG) on Aug....
ICEYE has announced that Aon has expanded its data licensing agreement to include ICEYE's Flood Insights data globally and Wildfire Insights data for the US. As a result, under...
T2S Solutions has announced its acquisition of Flexitech Aerospace, a radio-frequency (RF) engineering company, supporting T2S’ broader strategy to accelerate growth and innovations in the space technology sector. T2S...
The International Space University (ISU) has announced the appointment of Dr. John Wensveen as its new President. Dr. Wensveen, a seasoned expert in higher education, the aerospace industry, and...
At the initiative of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Agenzia...
Celestia TTI and Indra, the national industrial coordinator of the NGWS/FCAS program in Spain, have agreed to jointly develop next-generation antennas to design advanced communications systems for the FCAS. As...
Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) has announced Nina Patz as its new Head of Business Development. Nina’s appointment adds to the company’s senior commercial team as it approaches its next...
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission will continue with a new trajectory that will take it just 165 km from Mercury’s surface, around 35 km closer to Mercury than originally planned....
The Iceland Space Agency (ISA), together with the Science Park, and the University of Iceland is hosting representatives of the world’s major space agencies from September 2nd to the...
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, has announced the appointment of Jason Kim as its Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2024. With more than two decades of...
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the University of Bonn have renewed their partnership, reinforcing their commitment to leveraging space technology in response to growing...
John McFall, a member of the ESA Astronaut Reserve, bore the Paralympic flag at the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on 28 August 2024. John's inclusion...
Outpost Technologies Corporation has won a $33.2 million, four-year Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract from the Air Force Ventures program (AFWERX). The contract will see Outpost develop and test...
Mynaric has announced that the supervisory board and the chief executive officer, Mustafa Veziroglu, jointly decided on the termination of the office of Mustafa Veziroglu as CEO and member...
Astrobotic has published its Peregrine Mission 1 post-mission report, detailing the mission's journey and its propellant leak which prevented the mission from achieving its primary objective of landing on...
The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded further SpaceX launches after a Falcon 9 booster anomaly on Wednesday, 28th of August. The booster was part of a Falcon 9 mission...
The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) this autumn. This agreement reflects the shared commitment of...
LeoLabs has announced the appointment of Karen Cox as Chief of Corporate Affairs at LeoLabs. The newly formed role of Chief of Corporate Affairs will integrate LeoLabs’ government affairs,...
Spaceport Cornwall, alongside Cornwall Airport Newquay, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Wholeship Ltd, which operates the National Drone Hub at Predannack, near Helston. The proposed collaboration...
Axiom Space has partnered with Nokia to integrate advanced 4G/LTE communication capabilities into the next-generation spacesuits for the Artemis III lunar mission. Together, Nokia and Axiom Space will incorporate...
Northrop Grumman Corporation has won the Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) Site 2 contract from the U.S. Space Force. The second site, located in the United Kingdom, continues DARC’s...
Aerospace New Zealand and Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aiming to supercharge the aerospace and space sectors in New Zealand and...
Scout Space Inc. has announced its plans for its first demonstration of a novel very low Earth orbit (vLEO) Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capability, aboard a reusable, taskable, sub-orbital...
Astroscale Japan Inc. a subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”) has signed a contract with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for Phase II of JAXA’s Commercial Removal of...
NASA has announced that it will return Boeing’s Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft. The uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to...
Andøya Spaceport has received its Launch Site Operator license from the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, marking another milestone for the spaceport towards the first launch of...
Climate risk data analytics company Climate X has disclosed new data identifying which UNESCO Heritage Sites are most vulnerable to climate-related damage. The analysis highlights that four of the...
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