Satellites News
Latest Satellites news and analysis — 102 articles tagged Satellites on The Robotics Media.
- Voyager Wins Space Force Contract To Develop Satellite-To-Satellite Comms Waveform — — Space Systems Command has tapped Voyager Technologies to develop a flight-ready waveform for direct satellite-to-satellite communications across milit...
- TUSK IC Bags €15M Series A To Mass-Produce Ka-Band Chips For Flat-Panel Satellite Terminals — — Antwerp mmWave silicon startup TUSK IC has closed a €15M Series A led by Matterwave Ventures and Forward.one to push its Ka-band beamformer ICs from p...
- Rocket Lab Notches 16th Electron Of 2026 With Earth-Observation 'Happily Ever Faster' — — Rocket Lab has flown its 16th Electron mission of 2026 from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, delivering a confidential Earth-observation satellite to...
- Circuits Integrated Hellas Bags Pre-Seed From Evercurious For CI-ONE Ka-Band Satcom Chip — — Athens-based semiconductor startup Circuits Integrated Hellas has closed a pre-seed round from Evercurious VC to commercialise CI-ONE, a Ka-band integ...
- Open Cosmos Bags €300M To Turn Europe Into A Space Data Superpower — — British-Spanish smallsat maker Open Cosmos raises €300M in a Lightrock-led round to expand four European satellite factories and scale its ConnectedCo...
- Vega-C lofts Sentinel-3C and FLEX to watch Earth's climate — — Avio's Vega-C rocket launched EUMETSAT's Sentinel-3C and ESA's FLEX satellites from Kourou in a double-header for Europe's climate-monitoring programm...
- SpaceX Flies USSF-153 Classified Payload For US Space Force From Vandenberg — — SpaceX launched the classified USSF-153 payload for the US Space Force on September 10, 2026 from Vandenberg — its 5th national-security mission of th...
- Tomorrow.io Unveils DeepSky, A Satellite Architecture Purpose-Built To Feed AI Weather Models — — Boston climate-tech firm Tomorrow.io has unveiled DeepSky, a next-generation microwave-sounder architecture designed to feed high-cadence observations...
- GalaxySpace Completes China's First Turnkey Satellite Export To Southeast Asia — — Beijing-based GalaxySpace launched the Lingzhi-09 CubeSat plus ground system and training package for Thailand's GISTDA, marking the first end-to-end...
- Lynk and Omnispace Merger Closes, Launches Elveo Mobile D2D Operator — — Lynk Global and Omnispace closed their merger and launched Elveo Mobile, a Washington-based direct-to-device satellite operator with SES as a strategi...
- Pixxel Closes $100M Series C, India's Largest Space-Tech Round — — Bengaluru-based Pixxel raised $100 million in a Series C co-led by Temasek and Seraphim, taking total funding to $195 million and marking India's larg...
- 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...
- SpaceX Adds 27 More Starlink Satellites On Falcon 9 B1063's 35th Flight — — SpaceX launched 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites from Vandenberg on September 1, notching its 104th orbital mission of 2026 and a 35th flight for Falcon...
- 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...
- SpaceX Hits 100 Orbital Launches In 2026, Extends Falcon Reuse Record — — SpaceX flew its 100th Falcon-family orbital mission of 2026 from Vandenberg with 27 Starlink satellites, then extended booster reuse to 37 flights on...
- Space Force Adds Rocket Lab To SDN Consortium With $12M In Contracts — — Rocket Lab has been selected into the U.S. Space Force's Space Data Network Consortium and awarded $12 million in delivery orders to demonstrate secur...
- 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...