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Stoke Space  The U.S. Space Force (USSF’s) Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded Firm Fixed-Price (FFP), Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 contracts to Rocket Lab USA, Inc. and Stoke Space, joining Blue Origin, SpaceX ...

The revolving door at Russian space agency Roscosmos has turned again. On March 20th, Roscosmos announced the appointment of Vasily Titov to the post of General Director at subsidiary organization TsNIIMash and Vasily Marfin to lead NPO Lavochkin. Marfin previously ...

Once again, due to “ongoing weather restrictions”, Germany's Isar Aerospace now has scheduled their first attempt to launch Spectrum no earlier than on Saturday, March 29, at 11:30 UTC from the Orbital Launch Pad at the Andøya Space Center in ...

A Long March-3B carrier rocket carrying the Tianlian II-04 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, March 26, 2025. (China News Service/Xu Lihao) Tianlian II-04, China's second-generation geosynchronous orbit data-relay satellite, will provide ...

Umbra has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Under this CRADA, Umbra gains access to NGA’s research insights to better align its capabilities with mission requirements, while NGA can leverage Umbra’s advanced ...

The National Stem Cell Foundation (NSCF) has been awarded $3.1 million from NASA to continue its breakthrough studies on brain cell behavior in microgravity—the team’s patent-pending method for the long-duration, in-space culturing of organoids (tiny 3D replicas of an organ ...

SuperSharp Space Systems Ltd. (SuperSharp), a University of Cambridge spinoff, earlier this month received a £5 million award from the UK Space Agency—these funds will enable an on-orbit demonstration of SuperSharp’s unfolding thermal infrared (TIR) space telescope for climate change ...

Aitech will showcase their latest technologies for space at the 40th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from April 7-10. With the theme “Mission Proven. Space Proven. AI Ready,” Aitech will highlight next generation technology designed to advance the implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across ...

On a beautiful beach area in California, on Wednesday, March 26 at 3:11 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 27 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This was ...

Following years of development and completing a comprehensive certification plan including two successful certification missions, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan rocket has been certified by the United States Space Force to fly National Security Space Launch (NSSL) missions. “Thank ...