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A Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral is set to carry 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, extending SpaceX’s rapid-fire deployment cadence for its broadband network.

A Falcon Heavy lifted ViaSat-3 F3 from Kennedy Space Center and completed another dual-booster landing, while the upper stage carried the six-ton communications satellite toward geosynchronous transfer orbit.

A Falcon 9 launch carrying 24 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg added another data point to SpaceX’s extraordinary 2026 cadence, with the company reaching its 51st Falcon 9 mission before May had even begun.

Northrop Grumman has accepted delivery of a missile-warning sensor for the Next-Gen OPIR Polar program just as the Pentagon proposes terminating the satellite effort in favor of lower-orbit architectures.

Three companies have won SBIR contracts to develop payloads that can detect radar emissions from ground systems tracking U.S. military satellites.

The Canadian Space Agency has terminated Spire Global's WildFireSat contract, yet says it still plans to deliver a space-based wildfire monitoring capability by 2029 and within the existing budget.

The Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget request puts more than $8 billion behind space-based moving target indicator systems, signaling a major expansion of the Space Force’s role in tracking vehicles, aircraft and miss

After a weather-related scrub, SpaceX is lining up another Falcon Heavy launch to send the final satellite in the ViaSat-3 series toward geosynchronous transfer orbit.

United Launch Alliance is set to launch 29 Amazon LEO satellites from Cape Canaveral on a mission identified as Amazon Leo 6, the 10th batch of production satellites sent to orbit for the constellation.

SpaceX is set to launch the final ViaSat-3 satellite on Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center, marking the rocket’s first mission in more than a year and a half and the close of Viasat’s decade-long satellite program.

President Donald Trump has nominated defense and intelligence executive Roger Mason to lead the National Reconnaissance Office, a move that comes as the agency rapidly expands its low-Earth-orbit surveillance network.

French startup Univity says fresh Series A funding will finance two very-low-Earth-orbit demonstrator satellites designed to test how terrestrial and space-based 5G networks can work together. The company is targeting an

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has dismissed bids from SpaceX and others seeking changes to mobile satellite spectrum access, reinforcing incumbent rights as the direct-to-device market heats up.

A new research effort describes a dynamic framework for monitoring tillage practices from space, aimed at improving visibility into no-till and reduced-till adoption across the Midwest.

Blue Origin’s third New Glenn launch achieved a first-stage reuse milestone, but AST SpaceMobile’s Bluebird 7 satellite was placed into an off-nominal orbit.

A Falcon 9 launched GPS 3 SV-10 into medium Earth orbit, completing the ten-satellite GPS 3 series and marking the fourth consecutive GPS mission shifted from ULA to SpaceX.

New Glenn’s third flight ended with an upper-stage malfunction that placed AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 into an off-nominal orbit too low for recovery, dealing Blue Origin a setback as it seeks a higher launch tempo.

Blue Origin achieved a major reusable-launch milestone with a second successful New Glenn booster landing, but the mission still fell short after AST SpaceMobile’s satellite was left in an unusably low orbit.

Blue Origin has completed a static fire of the first previously flown New Glenn booster, a step that could clear the way for a launch of AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird-7 satellite as soon as Sunday, April

Direct-to-device satellite partnerships are multiplying, but large-scale deployment remains limited and more advanced services may take longer than the industry's publicity suggests