On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them […]

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U.S. Space Force looks to private-sector capabilities to track and interpret China’s spacecraft moves.

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When Canadian and European Space Agency leaders reaffirmed their commitment to work together in June, leaders focused their public remarks primarily on shared exploration goals and decades of fruitful partnership. […]

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Despite its inclusion in the official French name — le Salon International de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace — the Paris Air Show traditionally has not highlighted space in its panels […]

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It’s one thing to talk about commercial geospatial intelligence and another to see it.At the 2025 GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis last month, companies displayed their latest imagery and discussed […]

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The move reflects the democratization of space-based Earth observation technology as well as broader geopolitical realignments.

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When the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its top-level budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 on May 2, NASA and the space industry feared the worst. […]

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When imagery from the Worldview Legion satellites revealed fabric over a large object near a dry dock in North Korea in September, satellite operator Maxar Intelligence knew they needed help. […]

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For decades, geostationary orbit (GEO) was the undisputed home of satellite communications. From television broadcasts to internet backhaul and voice services, GEO satellites formed the backbone of global connectivity, delivering […]

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Dual-use space technologies underpin a new strategy to outpace rivals

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The market for sending spacecraft to the moon would seem to be a competitive one. NASA continues to drive the most demand for commercial lunar landers through its Commercial Lunar […]

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One year into his tenure as chief executive of SES, Adel Al-Saleh is steering one of the world’s largest satellite operators through yet another high-stakes transformation. His company is under […]

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Electrical engineer Ed Tate was skeptical of proposals for space-based solar power when he initially heard about the concept seven years ago. “My first reaction was, ‘That really sounds like […]

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For decades, military communications from space relied primarily on geostationary satellites positioned 22,000 miles above Earth. These distant spacecraft provide secure, reliable voice and data connectivity for United States defense […]

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As Arianespace wrapped up the webcast of the March 6 launch of the CSO-3 French reconnaissance satellite on an Ariane 6 rocket, the broadcast aired a recorded message from Philippe […]

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Pent-up deal activity from 2024 looks set to spill into 2025, potentially making it the busiest period for space mergers and acquisitions in years. “The interesting thing from my perspective […]

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Early in President Donald Trump’s first term, he turned to an executive order to accelerate deregulation. For each new mandate enacted, he called for the repeal of two regulations. This […]

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In a March 2024 flight test, Stratolaunch’s Roc aircraft took off from California’s Mojave Spaceport and, after reaching its designated position off the California coast, released its payload, the Talon-A […]

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After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO and chief scientist at Space Environment Technologies, is reconsidering a […]

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The challenge is particularly acute in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) where many military communications and early warning satellites operate

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As the use of space accelerates, so too does the risk of orbital debris — a pressing threat to communications, navigation and other technologies underpinning life on Earth. An estimated […]

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For more than five years, astronomers have sounded alarms about the effect satellite megaconstellations would have on their observations. The launch in 2019 of the first Starlink satellites, initially bright […]

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A decade ago, startups raising money to launch commercial weather satellites were convinced they had a goldmine on their hands because they could improve forecasting models. The problem? NOAA spent […]

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A new guard of tech billionaires and venture capitalists is mobilizing to overhaul the Pentagon’s multi-billion dollar space acquisition process as Donald Trump begins his second term at the White […]

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