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On August 17, 2026, NASA announced the successful flight demonstration of the Fast Autonomous Lost-in-space Catalog-based Optical Navigation (FALCON) system aboard the agency’s Starling CubeSat mission in low Earth orbit. […]
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On August 17, 2026, Ukrainian forces executed a long-range missile strike against the Progress Rocket Space Centre in Samara, Russia, damaging production facilities used to manufacture launch vehicles and hardware […]
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On August 17, 2026, direct-to-device (D2D) satellite operators Lynk Global and Omnispace announced the formal completion of their corporate merger, launching a combined operational entity rebranded as Elveo Mobile (Elveo). […]
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On August 17, 2026, the UK-based Space Energy Initiative (SEI) published a whitepaper titled “The Case for Space Based Solar Power,” urging the United Kingdom government to co-fund a first […]
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On August 17, 2026, optical design and manufacturing specialist Resolve Optics announced the availability of custom-designed, space-qualified lens assemblies engineered for high-precision satellite star tracker systems. The specialized optical systems […]
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On August 14, 2026, Norges Bank Investment Management, manager of Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, disclosed an expanded equity position in direct-to-device (D2D) satellite communications operator AST SpaceMobile, Inc. Second-quarter institutional […]
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On August 15, 2026, SpaceX completed two orbital Falcon 9 launches within 38 minutes from operational pads on opposite coasts of the United States. The high-cadence launch doubleheader deployed the […]
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On August 14, 2026, space consulting and market intelligence firm Novaspace published its latest In-Orbit Services Markets report, forecasting that emerging in-orbit satellite services will generate approximately $3 billion (€2.59 […]
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On August 10, 2026, a Japanese H-3 launch vehicle lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center carrying Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7 (QZS-7) spacecraft, which hosts an optical Space Domain Awareness […]
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On August 15, 2026, VinSpace, the space technology arm of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, signed a launch services agreement with SpaceX to deploy its initial batch of commercial nanosatellites into Low […]
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