Ovzon’s first fully owned satellite has reached its geostationary position after a five-month journey in space and passed initial health checks, the Swedish broadband operator announced.

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NASA and Boeing will keep the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at the International Space Station for at least four more days to perform additional testing of the commercial crew vehicle before it returns to Earth.

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Kayhan Space unveiled Satcat, a new source for information on objects and events in Earth orbit.

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Global satellite industry revenue climbed 2% year-on-year to $285 billion for 2023, according to the Satellite Industry Association’s 27th annual space economy snapshot released June 13.

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is interested in “commercial unclassified non-Earth imaging and associated analytics"

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Virgin Galactic has approved a reverse stock split intended to boost the company’s stock price and avoid delisting.

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German startup Vyoma has picked six-year-old Belgian venture Aerospacelab to build a second small satellite for its proposed space debris-monitoring constellation.

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Thales, Spire Global and the European Satellite Services Provider announced a memorandum of cooperation June 13 to develop a satellite constellation dedicated to air traffic surveillance.  

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Planet's senior vice president Troy Toman says the company is resetting expectations around AI’s capabilities to solve complex problems

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Albedo announced plans June 12 to send its first phone-booth-size satellite into very low Earth orbit early next year.

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The company will develop 21-inch diameter solid rocket motors for the second stage of the Standard Missile 6

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Satellite manufacturing startup Apex has raised $95 million to allow it to ramp up production of “productized” satellite buses to tap into growing demand, particularly from national security customers.

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NASA confirmed that Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has suffered a fifth, although minor, helium leak in its propulsion system as engineers work to prepare the vehicle for its return to Earth next week.

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Rocket Lab has lined up nearly $50 million in federal and state funding that will help the company expand a New Mexico factory where its produces space-grade solar cells.

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DoD buys Starlink’s commercial internet service but also plans to acquire more than 100 ‘Starshield’ satellites that would be government-owned

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Kongsberg NanoAvionics hopes to significantly expand its government business after appointing national security specialist Atle Wøllo to lead the Lithuanian small satellite builder.

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Stoke Space has test-fired a highly efficient engine it is developing for the first stage of its fully reusable launch vehicle.

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Kepler Communications has successfully tested optical inter-satellite links between a pair of data relay prototypes in low Earth orbit, the Canadian operator announced June 11.

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Col. Eric Felt: Direct-to-cell services conceivably could enhance or replace dedicated narrowband satcom systems like the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS)

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Yahsat ordered a pair of low Earth orbit satellites from Airbus amid a $1.1 billion program for its next two geostationary broadband spacecraft, the Emirati operator announced June 10.

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Scout Space’s ‘Owlet’ smallsat mission would be the third launch of ABL’s RS1 rocket

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Assured Space Access announced a strategic partnership with Phantom Space to establish Phantom Cloud, a data-backhaul service for satellites.

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NASA has selected seven companies to conduct studies of “out of the box” concepts for the agency’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) program that can deliver samples faster and cheaper than current plans.

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Contractors urged to "have a different mentality" on parts ordering

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