Satellite Servicing News
Latest Satellite Servicing news and analysis — 31 articles tagged Satellite Servicing on The Robotics Media.
- SpaceX Hits 700th Falcon Flight, Completes SES O3b mPOWER Constellation — — Falcon 9 launched the final three O3b mPOWER satellites for SES from Cape Canaveral, closing out the 13-spacecraft MEO broadband constellation on Spac...
- China Launches Four More PIESAT-2 SAR Satellites On Long March 2D — — A Long March 2D lifted PIESAT-2 satellites 13-16 to a 700-km sun-synchronous orbit on Sept 19, growing the GalaxySpace-built, PIESAT-operated commerci...
- IBM And NASA Ship Open-Source Lunar Foundation Model For Ice, Craters And Landing Sites — — NASA and IBM open-source the Lunar Foundation Model, joining the Prithvi family on Hugging Face and outperforming baselines by up to 23% on ice, crate...
- NASA awards Infleqtion $20M for quantum gravity sensor mission — — NASA has awarded Infleqtion a $20 million follow-on contract to advance the world's first orbital quantum gravity gradiometer, ahead of a targeted 203...
- ArcSpace Raises Over €2M To Weld And Repair Satellites In Orbit — — Paris-based ArcSpace has raised over €2 million led by DEPO Ventures to scale its electron-beam tools that can cut, weld and repair satellites — inclu...
- SpaceX Hits 100 Falcon Missions For 2026 With Vandenberg Starlink Launch — — A pre-dawn Falcon 9 from Vandenberg carried 27 Starlink satellites to orbit, giving SpaceX its 100th Falcon-family flight of 2026, with the Starlink f...
- SpaceX Sends 8 Globalstar Sats Up In New 38-Minute Doubleheader Record — — SpaceX launched eight Globalstar satellites from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 15, 2026 and set a new coast-to-coast record with a second Falcon 9 from Vande...
- 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...
- SpaceX Launches Northrop's Robotic Servicing Vehicle On Decade-Long Mission — — A SpaceX Falcon 9 lofted Northrop Grumman's Mission Robotic Vehicle and three Mission Extension Pods on July 21, kicking off a decade-long DARPA-backe...
- Rocket Lab Set to Launch NASA and Eta Space's LOXSAT Cryogenic Depot Demo — — Rocket Lab is targeting July 17 to launch LOXSAT, an on-orbit cryogenic fluid management demo built by Eta Space for NASA that will validate the plumb...
- China's Long March 10B Attempts Maiden Launch and Sea-Based Recovery — — CASC has opened the maiden launch window for the reusable Long March 10B heavy-lift rocket on July 10, targeting China's first at-sea first-stage reco...
- Katalyst's LINK Robot Launches to Rescue NASA's Falling Swift — — Katalyst Space Technologies' robotic servicing spacecraft LINK reached orbit on July 3 on a mission to grab NASA's decaying Swift observatory and boos...
- GITAI Completes S3 Robotic Satellite for On-Orbit Servicing Demo — — GITAI has finished the flight model of its S3 robotic satellite, a technology demonstration mission to validate autonomous on-orbit servicing for futu...
- Starfish Space Raises $100M Series B for Otter Satellite Servicing — — Seattle-area Starfish Space has closed a Series B of more than $100 million led by Point72 Ventures to scale its Otter satellite servicing vehicle for...
- MDA Space to Acquire Blue Canyon Technologies for $620 Million — — MDA Space will buy Colorado smallsat maker Blue Canyon Technologies from RTX's Raytheon for US$620 million in cash, expanding into the U.S. defense sp...
- Katalyst Raises $12M to Send Servicing Robot to GEO Orbit — — Katalyst Space Technologies raised $12 million led by Geodesic Capital to build Nexus, a robotic spacecraft for servicing satellites in geostationary...
- MDA Space Wins CSA Contract for RADARSAT Replenishment Satellite — — The Canadian Space Agency has tapped MDA Space to build a next-generation CHORUS-based SAR satellite to replenish the RADARSAT Constellation Mission.
- Open Cosmos Wins Spain's Eight-Satellite Atlantic Constellation — — Open Cosmos will build eight Earth observation microsatellites for Spain's component of the Atlantic Constellation, with delivery targeted by 2027.
- NASA and CSA prep June 30 spacewalk to swap broken Canadarm2 joint — — NASA and the Canadian Space Agency will send Expedition 74 astronauts on a spacewalk no earlier than June 30, 2026 to replace a failed wrist joint on...
- Viasat and Intelsat Win Space Force PTS-G Swarm-1 Satellite Contracts — — The U.S. Space Force has awarded $437.7M in PTS-G Swarm-1 contracts to Viasat and Intelsat to build the first two jam-resistant GEO satellites for pro...