China’s Nayuta Space raises fresh funding for aerodynamic-recovery rocket
Chinese commercial launch startup Nayuta Space has completed consecutive Pre-A financing rounds to support development of its unconventional Xuanniao-R rocket ...
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Riding the orbital data center wave
The orbital data center boom is promising opportunities well beyond the pioneers hoping to build colossal, AI-driven computing platforms in ...
Ground station operators grapple with military targeting
Recent strikes on cloud facilities and satellite ground infrastructure are sharpening concerns that some of the space industry’s most critical ...
Exiting NRO director Chris Scolese’s legacy: commercial partnerships; public engagement
In a 2022 address to the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the director of the National Reconnaissance Office, Chris Scolese, ...
Loft Orbital expands into full-service constellation deals
EarthDaily Analytics and UAE-backed Altair highlight shift toward ‘constellations as a service’
Hancom InSpace gains hyperspectral sensor
DENVER – South Korea’s Hancom InSpace is expanding its Earth-observation constellation with Sejong-3, a cubesat with a hyperspectral sensor, launched ...
Ignition relaunches Artemis plans
On March 24, executives from across the space industry and officials from dozens of countries filed into NASA’s Washington headquarters, ...
NASA wants to land astronauts on the moon in 2028. Will SpaceX’s Starship or Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander be ready in time?
After Artemis 2, NASA's moon return hinges on two unproven commercial landers, each of which faces major technical and timeline ...
Pixxel pushes into orbital data centers for faster geospatial intelligence
Indian hyperspectral imaging startup Pixxel plans to test orbital data center technology on a pathfinder satellite designed to deliver geospatial ...
Space’s missing half
Every generation reshapes how civilization moves goods. Container ships revolutionized the mid-20th century, computing the late 20th century, and as we entered the new millennium ...