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Aalto HAPS (AALTO) has broadened its reach into one of the largest markets in Asia. The company signed an MoU with PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi Tbk (Mitratel), an Indonesian digital infrastructure telecoms company to explore how to provide commercial HAPS solutions in Indonesia. The companies said the combination of Mitratel’s digital infrastructure portfolio that includes more than 38,000...

Dcubed has closed its Series A funding round, a funding round that oversubscribed by 26%. The German space startup will use the funding to scale the current production of satellite actuators. At the same time, Dcubed will drive its position in the sector of in-space manufacturing, which is largely seen as one of the key...

Impulse Space has two new offerings to help satellites reach Geostationary Orbit (GEO). The company announced Tuesday it will offer a rideshare program to GEO for small satellites using its Helios kick stage starting in 2027. In addition, Impulse Space updated the design of its Mira orbital transfer vehicle to enable operations in GEO.  ...

GHGSat has contracted Space Flight Laboratory to build two additional greenhouse gas monitoring satellites for the company’s constellation.  The satellites, announced Monday, will be based on the SFL 15-kg NEMO satellite bus, the same platform used to build the first nine GHGSat spacecraft. SFL built GHGSat’s demonstration satellite which launched in 2016 and built eight...

Orbit Fab has received a critical approval from the U.S. Space Force that its refueling interface is approved for military services.  The company announced Monday that its RAFTI (Rapidly Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface) refueling port was designated by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) as a refueling interface for in-space fueling of military...

The FCC granted AST SpaceMobile an initial license to launch and operate its first five satellites. AST SpaceMobile is now authorized to launch and operate V-band, S-band, and ultra high frequency (UHF) frequencies to support gateway, feeder link and telemetry, tracking, and control operations for the first five commercial satellites, called BlueBirds.  However, the FCC deferred...

Satellite manufacturer and operator Muon Space raised a $56.7 million Series B funding round, led by Activate Capital. Muon Space announced the round on Monday, which also included Acme Capital and existing investors Costanoa Ventures, Radical Ventures, and Congruent Ventures.  Muon Space is an end-to-end space systems provider that designs, manufactures and operates remote sensing...

Viasat has started service on the first ViaSat-3 satellite, which suffered an anomaly after it was launched last year. ViaSat-3 F1 is now available for aviation customers operating over North America, including routes servicing Hawaii.  Viasat announced the entry into service on Aug. 5, along with a new constellation management software.  The satellite antenna had...

Axiom Space will partner with various partners as it looks to send three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Axion Mission 4 (Ax-4), the company’s next commercial human spaceflight mission to the orbiting laboratory. It will partner with India through the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Poland, with European Space Agency (ESA) support,...

Booz Allen Hamilton deployed a generative AI large language model (LLM) in space onboard the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab, the company announced Aug. 1. The LLM was uploaded to the Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) Spaceborne Computer-2 onboard the ISS. In the payload experiment, the team uploaded the LLM repeated the experiment with new...