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Space has always been a huge part of popular culture. In fact, some of the highest-grossing movies like “Star Wars” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” have space at the heart. The...

SmallSat Alliance, an industry group of companies in the smallsat ecosystem, appointed Dr. Angel Smith as its new executive director.  Smith is a general manager at Microsoft Corp. leading Strategic...

Firefly Aerospace is looking for a new CEO after the launcher’s board of directors announced July 17 that CEO Bill Weber is no longer with the company.  This news comes...

Innovative Rocket Technologies, the launch startup known as iRocket, plans to enter the U.K. market with a new member of its board of directors. Paul Stein, former chief technology officer...

AvL Technologies has announced changes to its executive team with the retirement of CEO Guy Clerici. The company’s owner and founder Jim Oliver semi-retired in 2022 and appointed Clerici to...

Neo Space Group (NSG) has appointed Martijn Blanken as its new CEO. NSG aims to become a new player in satellite communications in the Middle East. The company announced the...

MDA Space is now looking for a new chief financial officer (CFO) as the company’s CFO Vito Culmone is leaving the company. Culmone, who had been with MDA Space for...

Planet Labs is going through another round of layoffs and will lay off approximately 180 employees, about 17% of its workforce. The company disclosed the layoffs in filings to the...

Kongsberg NanoAvionics has appointed Atle Wøllo as its new CEO, the company announced Monday. This comes two years after the Norwegian defense firm acquired NanoAvionics, a company that began as...

Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA), a spaceport operator and launch technology infrastructure company, has hired Joshua Daish, as its new Head of Arnhem Space Center site operations. Daish will also take...