Construction Orders Pair of Oberon radar satellites for UK military to be built by Airbus DS Thales Alenia Space secured lunar Gateway space station airlock module contract DPhi Space Clustergate 1 mission on Transporter 13 to carry Zohar-1 space weather sensor hosted...
We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don’t have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of January (space orders can be found in...
Construction Orders STAR.VISION Aerospace links with universities to build two 5 kg lunar mini-robots to launch with Chang’e 8 in 2028 Thales Alenia Space won an ESA development deal for the Venus EnVision mission and, separately, it secured a US$900 million...
Although the 2024 calendar year proved to be a highly profitable one for space insurers, the industry continued to reel from a revised US$1.3 billion net loss for 2023. Of the losses in 2023, most were relatively small sub-US$30 million claims. It was a series of...
NASA has cancelled its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project 14 months before the golf-cart sized rover, which has already been completed, was set to launch. The news, announced in a teleconference on 17 July, sent shockwaves around the space...
SES has made an agreed bid of US$3.1 billion in cash for rival satellite operator Intelsat. The deal, expected to close in the second half of 2025, will see two of the ‘Big Four’ fixed-satellite service (FSS) commercial satellite operators merge to form a mega GEO...
