Airbus' Pleiades NEO 3 satellite captured 30cm resolution imagery of SLS rolling out to the pad today along with imagery of LC-39A & LC-39B at 16:24:26 UTC. Credit to Harry Stranger / AIRBUS DS 2026 for these incredible photos! soaratlas.com/maps/140457

We’re proud to share that Starfish has been awarded the first end-of-life disposal contract for a low Earth orbit satellite constellation in history. This $52.5M contract from the Space Development Agency (Space Development Agency) allows us to build, launch and operate an Otter to

What makes TeraWave different? It is purpose-built for enterprise customers. Unmatched speeds of up to 6 Tbps through a multi-orbit constellation of 5,280 LEO and 128 MEO satellites with both RF and optical links. Globally distributed customers can each access up to 144 Gbps of

$RKLB's €75m Mynaric takeover is stalled. Germany's foreign-investment review flags laser comms as critical for defense & particularly for €35bn space defense programme, raising sovereignty & legal hurdles. Decision delayed again; approval uncertain. klartext-raumfahrt.de/rocket-lab-mit…

Docking? ✅ Our Blue Docking System team successfully completed soft capture system testing at NASA's Johnson Space Center's Six-Degree-Of-Freedom Dynamic Test facility. This test completes a key milestone on our Commercial LEO Destinations (CLD) contract. The fully vertically

SpaceX has developed a novel Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system, called Stargaze → starlink.com/stargaze To maximize safety for all satellites in space, SpaceX will be making Stargaze conjunction data available to all operators, free of charge. By providing this

Amazon Leo applies for two year extension of July 2026 interim milestone, contracts for 10 more F9 launches to get to 700 launched by July, admits 9 months of delays were caused by "unexpected reengineering" after the prototype satellite launch fccprod.servicenowservices.com/ibfs?id=ibfs_a…

Some launch news from Amazon Leo - the Amazon sat business has hired SpaceX to conduct 10 more flights for it, per a new FCC filing. Business also now listing 24 flights with Blue Origin (started with a dozen launches + options) -

Thankful for Elon moving the goalposts so far that formerly ridiculous sounding ideas like a ~100 SAR satellite live-staring-video-from-space constellation not only sounds reasonable, but now sounds modest, inevitable, unambitious

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to

The FCC has approved Amazon's second-generation Leo system, adding coverage + capacity to serve more customers around the world. Key features: ➡️ Expands constellation to 7,000+ satellites ➡️ Adds support for V-band, Ku-band frequencies ➡️ Adds polar coverage, extending Leo

Entry burn & Splashdown

Woke up to the new the Long March 10 test flight was fully successful. It was a suborbital abort test of both the booster recovery and the Mengzhou capsule. Both are components of the future Chinese Moon landing. Note that China has not yet successfully recovered an orbital

Tracking footage from this morning's launch of ULA's Vulcan rocket & the USSF-87 mission for United States Space Force - filmed from a perspective 3.9 miles to the west of SLC-41. SRM nozzle burn through plainly visible on the right-hand side of the vehicle, protruding in the

That's a surprisingly detailed render of the Amazon Leo payload stack for LE-01. Like Atlas V, there are 3 dispenser rings with 9 satellites each. But there then is a smaller dispenser ring on top capable of carrying 6 satellites, which in this case carries 5 satellites.

.Arianespace Ariane 64 successfully orbits 32 Amazon Leo sats, says its next mission will also be for Amazon as part of 18-launch contract. Today's flight was 1st use of 4-booster 64 & 1st use of 20-m fairing. Beyond Gravity ArianeGroup European Space Agency CNES. spaceintelreport.com/first-ariane-6…

"If this happened on a Shuttle or SLS flight, it is safe to assume total loss of crew, payload, and vehicle. Solids have no engine out capability. They have moderately common failure modes which are apparently still not understood and still not corrected. It is safe to assume

Yikes. NASA couldn’t even complete a test of the SLS rocket’s ground system seal for liquid hydrogen because something else broke with the ground systems. And they wait until 8 pm ET Friday to send an update on something they knew last night. nasa.gov/blogs/missions…

First landing ever at SLC-40 today

Just to be clear here, NASA declared its recent test a "successful wet dress rehearsal" despite missing its T-30s target by almost five minutes, botching the dreaded Orion hatch close out procedure, and managing to achieve up to 16% H2 due to copious leakage at the fueling