STARMUS VIII holds six days of science and music across Tenerife and La Palma
The eighth edition of the STARMUS festival ran from 17 to 22 October 2026 on two Canary Islands, with an Artemis II…
Space
Launches, satellites and the business of orbit.
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ST Engineering iDirect to supply MBSat ground system for Oman network
The partnership covers a software-defined ground segment for MBSat's gateway and network operations, with services…
Kapta Space raises $24M Series A to scale radar payload production
The Seattle company said the round, led by Washington Harbour Partners, brings its total funding to $30 million and…
JA's P-HJT solar modules reach orbit in first in-orbit test
The Chinese company said the September 17 launch is its first test of P-type heterojunction modules in space, with…
A quantum satellite in orbit, and the distance to a working link
SpeQtral's SpeQtre CubeSat has launched to test space-to-ground quantum key distribution, a building block for networks…
A Japanese satellite ordered for 2027, built to last fifteen years
SKY Perfect JSAT has contracted Thales Alenia Space to build JSAT-32, a geostationary satellite designed to replace…
A 16U satellite, and what counts as a successful mission
GITAI says its first in-house satellite met all three of its success criteria in orbit, a step toward satellites that…
Japan will build a pressurised rover for the Moon, for Artemis VII
NASA and Japan's science ministry have signed an arrangement that trades a lunar rover for seats on the surface for…
A drag sail that would bring small satellites down sooner
Axelspace's D-SAIL, a membrane that unfurls to shorten a satellite's time in orbit, has been selected for a JAXA…
A spacecraft will fly up to a spent rocket stage and photograph it
Astroscale Japan will send a small spacecraft to meet a discarded Japanese rocket stage, the first phase of a JAXA…
Astroscale launches a pair of satellites to rehearse catching one
Astroscale has launched ELSA-d, two satellites stacked together in a 550-kilometre orbit, to rehearse the docking that…