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On March 30, 2026, the Chinese commercial space firm CAS Space (Zhongke Yuhang) achieved the successful maiden flight of its Kinetica-2 Y1 (also known as Lijian-2 Y1) carrier rocket. The […]
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At 6:35 p.m. EDT, April 1, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket successfully roared to life at Launch Complex 39B, sending the Artemis II mission on a historic journey. This […]
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On March 30, 2026, SpaceX successfully launched its Transporter-16 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, carrying a diverse manifest of 119 payloads. Among the spacecraft deployed were seven satellites […]
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New Zealand — At 10:14 CET on March 28, 2026, the first two satellites of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Celeste mission—IOD-1 and IOD-2—successfully lifted off from Rocket Lab’s Launch […]
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Europe is the only major space power building its smallsat sector on defense procurement rather than venture capital or state industrial policy. The demand signal is institutional, contracted, and accelerating.
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On March 20, 2026, Space Systems Command (SSC) announced it is reassigning the launch of the final GPS III satellite from United Launch Alliance (ULA) to SpaceX. The satellite, GPS […]
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China’s commercial space sector has transitioned from a series of experimental startups into a massive, state-backed industrial engine. Driven by the strategic competition sparked by SpaceX’s Starlink, China has surged […]
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Exactly 100 years ago today, on March 16, 1926, Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts. Today, L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) marks this centennial […]
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VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, CALIF. – On Wednesday, March 11, 2026, Firefly Aerospace successfully launched its Alpha Flight 7 mission, titled “Stairway to Seven.” The Alpha rocket lifted off from […]
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HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA – While SpaceX continues to dominate the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband market with over 11,000 active Starlink satellites, the company has officially pivoted its long-term strategy toward […]
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