🇪🇺 BREAKING: EU Commission awards 12-year concession contract for IRIS² to SpaceRISE Consortium composed of SES, Eutelsat & Hispasat. Constellation will consist of 290 sats and enter service in 2030(!) only. defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/iris2-european…

Prosecutors request ban on Marine Le Pen running for public office in embezzlement trial politico.eu/article/prosec…

Rivada loses ITU priority for its LEO network as Liechtenstein regulator rescinds license, citing dubious business plan - spaceintelreport.com/rivada-loses-i…

Challenge extended by ex-Orbex-CEO Chris Larmour and accepted by PLD Space CEO Raúl Torres🇪🇸. Get your calendars out and mark one year from today. There's €1,000 on the line.

The Exploration Company raises 150 mil.€ in Series-B round. The largest investment in a European space tech company to date. Still some way to go until the levels of investment we see in the US...

The SpaceX/Starling/Starship conundrum.

Looking for an Event Operations Associate at TerraWatch Space, primarily to support the organisation of EO Summit 2025. ➡️ Responsibilities: Manage event planning, execution, and post-event activities including coordination with speakers/sponsors, updates to website/event

Jared Isaacman is the new NASA Administrator. I didn't see that coming.

It seems today is not a good day for space launches. Both the launch of Sentinel-1 C(Vega-C) and Proba-3 (PSLV) have been postponed.

Romanian authorities took the decision to declassify and release relevant intelligence reports on malign foreign operations, including illegal financing, digital campaign amplification and cyber attacks targeting the Presidential elections in Romania.

Piaggio Aerospace, a historic Italian excellence in the aviation sector, has come under the control of Turkey’s Baykar, a global leader in drone technology.

I would totally buy one and redesign it as a Moon Rover (is it technically a rover?)

Italy is in advanced talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a deal to provide secure telecommunications for the nation’s government — the largest such project in Europe. So, no IRIS2? bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

It seems that TAS(Thales Alenia Space) goes through some very good days. Argonaut, EnVision, maybe LISA? I wonder what's going on with Airbus and OHB.

#UNIO has been acquired by a "partner active in space, cyber security and tech" and saved from bankruptcy with plans for operation in 2025 and beyond.

Such an amazing video! We are living space history!

Tim Ellis to step down from the CEO role of Relativity Space. He will be replaced by Eric Schmidt (also providing substantial investment). Ellis remains a co-founder and board member.

That's an odd situation since Airbus has their own capacities for development and manufacturing of solar panels at Airbus Netherlands (including for series production - they manufacture the Sparkling COTS solar panels there)

Project Kuiper becomes Amazon LEO

I have been asked for a guest post on the SpaceTech in Gulf website. As space data centers is a hot topic right now, I provided a point of view regarding the feasibility of such systems spacetech-gulf.com/2026/01/orbita…