Space Technology News
Latest Space Technology news and analysis — 104 articles tagged Space Technology on The Robotics Media.
- 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...
- 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...
- Astrum Space To Go Public In $1B Black Spade SPAC Deal — — Singapore's Astrum Space will merge with Black Spade Acquisition III in a $1 billion SPAC deal, taking the Asia-Pacific Satellite-to-Device operator b...
- SpaceXAI Picks NVIDIA Vera CPUs For Grok, Sends Vera Rubin NVL72 To Orbit — — SpaceXAI will deploy standalone NVIDIA Vera CPUs to power Grok's next-generation agentic workloads and plans to launch a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack aboard...
- SpaceX Booster B1067 Sets 37-Flight Reuse Record On Starlink 10-49 Cape Canaveral Launch — — SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral early Tuesday carrying 29 Starlink 10-49 satellites, powered by fleet-leading first-stage booster B1067...
- Tropical Depression Narra Grounds China's Chang'e-7 Moon Launch, CNSA Warns Slip Could Reach 2027 — — China's ambitious Chang'e-7 lunar south pole mission was postponed after Tropical Depression Narra closed the Wenchang launch window, with Xinhua warn...
- SpaceX's Starlink Crosses 11,000 Satellites As One Network Nears Two-Thirds Of Active Fleet — — A 24-satellite Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg on August 19, 2026 appears to have pushed SpaceX's Starlink constellation past 11,000 spacecraft in orb...
- Rocket Lab launches iQPS QPS-SAR-18 'SUSANOO-II' on 14th Electron of 2026 — — Rocket Lab lofted iQPS's QPS-SAR-18 'SUSANOO-II' synthetic-aperture radar satellite to a 575 km mid-inclined orbit aboard Electron from Mahia today, n...
- Viasat Picks Rocket Lab to Build GEO Satellite for Space Force PTS-G — — Viasat has selected Rocket Lab to build the satellite bus for a mini-GEO spacecraft in the U.S. Space Force's Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global program...
- Rocket Lab Onboarded to Space Force's $981M NITE-STAR Contract — — Rocket Lab has joined the U.S. Space Force's NITE-STAR IDIQ vehicle, opening the door for the company to bid on task orders in a $981 million program...
- 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...
- Rheinmetall And Space Norway Sign MoU To Fuse X-Band And C-Band SAR For NATO — — Germany's Rheinmetall and Norway's state satellite operator will pair X-band and C-band SAR data to build a multi-tiered maritime domain awareness pic...
- Vietnam's VinSpace Books SpaceX Transporter to Launch Its First Satellites — — Vingroup-owned VinSpace will fly its first satellites aboard SpaceX's Transporter ride-share in Q2 2027, marking a milestone for Vietnam's nascent com...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Astra Space Chases $250M At $1B Valuation For Rocket 4 Comeback — — Chris Kemp's Astra Space is raising $250M at a $1B valuation to fund Rocket 4 flight tests, mobile launch spaceports, and its 100-plus-unit spacecraft...