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Millennium Space Systems completes FOO Fighter CDR in 10 months

Screenshot Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing [NYSE: BA] company, completed the Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) CDR in just 10 months after authorization to proceed with the project. FOO Fighter will demonstrate advanced missile defense capability by incorporating fire ...

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Russia to launch NASA’s American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to ISS

The crew of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft, which will launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station on April 8, 2025. From left to right: NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky ...

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Firefly Aerospace awarded DoD contract for responsive on-orbit mission with Elytra spacecraft

Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a contract to perform a responsive on-orbit mission with the company's Elytra spacecraft in support of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Sinequone Project. Sinequone will demonstrate the commercial launch and ...

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Viasat advances multi-orbit services roadmap— signs agreement with Telesat for LEO K-Band services

Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has signed an agreement with Telesat (Nasdaq and TSX: TSAT) to integrate Telesat Lightspeed LEO Ka-band capacity into the company's multi-orbit network to deliver a new standard of connectivity across its mobility and defense business portfolio ...

SpaceX launches Starlink Group 11-11 in super foggy California

On Monday, April 7 at 4:06 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This was the first flight for the first stage ...

Axiom Space to launch Orbital Data Center nodes

Axiom Space has revealed that the company will launch the first of two Orbital Data Center (ODC) nodes to LEO, by year's end. These nodes will lay the foundation for space-based cloud computing, addressing growing needs for users around the ...

Olsen Actuators + Drives expands their space business into the U.S.

Olsen Actuators and Drives will open a branch office in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2026—located at the heart of the U.S. space industry, the new office will provide a sales base for the component firm to expand operations and tap ...

Space Network launches ‘Space Network | Africa’ to support African space economy

Space Network has launched Space Network | Africa, coinciding with the Space Symposium at Colorado Springs (April 7th through 10th). This initiative is set to drive space-based economic growth, innovation, and education across the African continent, positioning Africa as a ...

Globalstar expands leadership leam

Globalstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSAT) has announced two new leaders for the firm's terrestrial spectrum and network solutions and wholesale satellite capacity businesses The terrestrial spectrum and network solutions business aims to deliver transformative, innovative private wireless network solutions enabled by ...

Rocket Lab announces expanded radio products for reliable C&C

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has expanded the company's suite of space-grade radio frequency (RF) communications systems, the Frontier radios—they are flight-proven, software-defined and designed for reliable telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C). Photo of Rocket Lab's Frontier radio, courtesy ...

United Launch Alliance’s competitive Space Force contract for continued critical National Security Space Launches

The U.S. Space Force announced today that United Launch Alliance (ULA) was awarded a firm, fixed-price, indefinite-delivery requirements (IDR) contact to launch 40 percent of the missions to the country’s most challenging and exotic orbits on its newest launch procurement ...

UK + U.S. hit major milestone in development of hypersonic weapons

UK scientists have completed a major hypersonic propulsion test that was enabled by close collaboration between the UK government, industry and the U.S. government. The propulsion system is set to power a cutting-edge hypersonic cruise missile concept—233 test runs were ...

Kyiv Post: Berlin reportedly funding Kyiv’s satellite internet in secret via Eutelsat

The anti-Ukrainian position of billionaire Elon Musk, who owns Starlink via his space firm SpaceX, has prompted concerns about over-reliance on Starlink devices in Ukraine. The Ukrainian publication, Kyiv Post, has posted that Berlin has reportedly funded Kyiv’s access to ...