Aerospace News
Latest Aerospace news and analysis — 34 articles tagged Aerospace on The Robotics Media.
- Isar Aerospace Scrubs September 4 Spectrum Launch, Window Open Through Sept 10 — — Germany's Isar Aerospace called off a planned September 4 attempt to fly its second Spectrum rocket from Andøya, with the launch window for the 'Onwar...
- ISRO's GSLV Mk II Launches EOS-05, India's First Geosynchronous Imaging Satellite — — ISRO targeted a 5:25 p.m. ET liftoff on September 3, 2026 for its GSLV F17 mission, sending the 2,367 kg EOS-05 earth-observation satellite toward geo...
- HyImpulse Bags €50M Series A Extension To Fly Europe's Hybrid-Propulsion Rockets — — JOIN Capital and Ace Capital Partners co-lead a €50M+ extension into HyImpulse, pushing the German launcher's total funding past €125M ahead of a seco...
- Kepler Aerospace Raises $8M Seed To Build India's Integrated Satellite Intelligence Stack — — Blue Ashva-led seed capitalizes Kepler Aerospace's build-out of satellites, avionics and mission software after seven years of bootstrapping.
- Rocket Lab Preps 'Owl Around The World' Electron Launch For Synspective StriX-11 — — Rocket Lab's 94th Electron flight will loft Synspective's 11th StriX SAR satellite to 575 km LEO from Mahia Peninsula this week.
- NASA's Roman Space Telescope Launches On Falcon Heavy For Dark Universe Mission — — NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy on August 30, 2026, beginning a three-month journey to L2 to survey d...
- Electra, Helsinki, Haaga-Helia Sign MOU On EL9 Air Service To Tallinn — — Electra, the City of Helsinki and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences signed an August 27, 2026 memorandum to study EL9 Ultra Short hybrid-elec...
- Antares Nuclear Locks In Multi-Year TRISO Fuel Supply From Standard Nuclear Through 2035 — — Antares Nuclear signed a binding multi-year fuel supply agreement with Standard Nuclear for up to eight MTUs of TRISO fuel through 2035, anchoring fue...
- MP Materials Signs Multi-Year Gadolinium Supply Deal With U.S. Aerospace & Defense Customer — — MP Materials will supply gadolinium oxide to an unnamed major U.S. aerospace and defense customer under a multi-year deal expected to be worth nine fi...
- Brookhaven, Stony Brook Open First U.S. Free-Space Quantum Link — — DOE Under Secretary Darío Gil cut the ribbon on a 13-mile free-space optical quantum link between Brookhaven National Lab and Stony Brook University,...
- AVIC's Fengxing-001 Humanoid Robot Takes On Aircraft Ops At WRC 2026 — — China's state aerospace giant AVIC debuted the Fengxing-001, a 1.8-meter humanoid built to handle aircraft maintenance, missile loading and even simul...
- LandSpace Sets Aug 18 Second Try At Reusing Zhuque-3 Booster — — LandSpace targets 23:35 UTC on Aug 18 from Jiuquan for the second Zhuque-3 flight, and its second attempt at recovering the stainless-steel booster af...
- Arianespace Sets Aug 27 for Ariane 6's First Geostationary Mission — — Ariane 62 will loft the MTG-I2 weather satellite for EUMETSAT and ESA on August 27, 2026 — Ariane 6's first flight to geostationary transfer orbit.
- Rocket Lab Opens Munich Subsidiary To Anchor European Sovereign Space Push — — Rocket Lab Corp. has formally established Rocket Lab Germany GmbH in Munich, using the Mynaric acquisition as a launchpad for European satellite manuf...
- Neuraspace Raises €15.6M For AI Space Traffic Management — — Portugal's Neuraspace has raised €15.6M ($18M) to scale its AI space traffic management platform and defense-grade NeuraspaceDEF product, backed by Li...
- Astranis Unveils Perceptor Satellite For Geostationary Space Domain Awareness — — San Francisco satellite maker Astranis has revealed Perceptor, a maneuverable MicroGEO-derived spacecraft designed to inspect and monitor other satell...
- Firefly Pushes Alpha Block 2 Debut To Q4, Trims 2026 Cadence — — Firefly Aerospace told investors its next two Alpha launches, including the Block 2 debut on FLTA008, are now slipping into the fourth quarter of 2026...
- Rocket Lab Debuts GHOST, A Spaceport You Can Ship In A Container — — Rocket Lab unveiled GHOST, a containerized launch system that packages a complete Electron or HASTE launch site into shipping containers, with the fir...
- Long March 7A Explodes 85 Seconds After Liftoff, Destroys ChinaSat 4B — — China's Long March 7A rocket disintegrated 85 seconds after lifting off from Wenchang on August 10, destroying the ChinaSat 4B geostationary communica...
- NASA Sets August 30 Falcon Heavy Launch For Roman Space Telescope — — NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, with a Hubble-sized mirror and a view 100x wider, is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy on...