Satellites News
Latest Satellites news and analysis — 111 articles tagged Satellites on The Robotics Media.
- Iridium Stockholders Approve $8B Rocket Lab Acquisition With 99.6% Vote — — Iridium stockholders overwhelmingly cleared Rocket Lab's $8 billion cash-and-stock takeover with 99.6% of votes cast in favor, keeping the deal on tra...
- IonQ says quantum generative model beats classical baselines on satellite SAR change detection — — IonQ ran a Quantum Circuit Born Machine on live trapped-ion hardware against real Capella Space SAR imagery of MCAS Miramar and Réunion Island, showin...
- SpaceX Falcon 9 Set For Classified USSF-385 Launch From Vandenberg — — USSF-385 will fly a classified Space Force payload from Vandenberg on Saturday, with Falcon 9 booster B1100 targeting its 10th flight and a droneship...
- Google Launches First TPU Satellites To Orbit On SpaceX Transporter-18 — — Google's Project Suncatcher will loft four Trillium TPUs aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare on Oct 1, testing the case for orbital AI data cente...
- Oracle Invokes Force Majeure On New Mexico Project Jupiter Data Center — — Oracle blamed a delayed Energy Transfer natural-gas pipeline as it issued a force majeure notice on the 2.45 GW Stargate campus, protecting itself fro...
- Space42 And Viasat Formalize $1B Equatys JV For 2,800-Satellite D2D LEO — — The signed venture pools more than 100 MHz of MSS spectrum and up to $1B in equity to build a shared LEO fleet for direct-to-device connectivity acros...
- 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...
- Rocket Lab Marks 96th Electron Flight With 'Owl By The Dozen' Launch — — Rocket Lab lofts Synspective's 12th StriX satellite from Mahia in New Zealand, chalking up its 17th Electron launch of 2026 and reinforcing a partners...
- 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...