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Arianespace’s longtime CEO Stéphane Israël will leave the company at the end of the year, the French launcher announced Thursday. Israël led Arianespace since 2013 and supervised 108 launches and...

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed allocating more spectrum for space launch communication. The proposal announced on Dec. 19 would reallocate the 2360–2395 MHz band on a secondary basis for...

Maxar Intelligence has received $35 million in total for new tasking contracts from two government customers in the Asia-Pacific region. Maxar said these contracts are the first purchase of direct...

NASA awarded Firefly Aerospace a $179 million award to deliver six experiments to the Moon in 2028. This will be Firefly’s third lunar mission and it is its fourth NASA...

Airbus and the French Space Agency CNES have completed the TELEO mission demonstrating very high throughput laser communications between Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and Earth. TELEO is an optical communications payload...

A ThinKom ThinAir antenna was the primary communications technology onboard the Rapcon-X aircraft’s recent inaugural flight.  Rapcon-X is an aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (A-ISR) solution by Sierra Nevada Corporation...

Iceye closed $65 million in extension funding, taking the company’s total raised in 2024 to $158 million. The funding round extension included participation from funds managed by Finnish sovereign wealth...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded additional funding to SpiderOak to demonstrate integrating the U.S. Space Force’s identity and access management software within the company’s platform. SpiderOak announced the addition...

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 national security missions back-to-back from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California between Monday night and Tuesday morning, followed by an O3b...

Emerging technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence create new threats to defend against, as well as new defensive capabilities for the commercial space sector, U.S. defense officials said at...