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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Icarus Robotics Flies ISS-Bound JOY In Weightlessness, Locks In May 2027 Launch — — Brooklyn startup Icarus Robotics flew its JOY free-flying robot through 66 parabolas of microgravity, clearing the last major hurdle before handing ha...
- 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...
- 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...
- TEC Bags Europe's Largest-Ever Space Series C: $450M For Nyx And Storm — — Munich-based The Exploration Company raised $450M co-led by Bessemer, Atomico and the EQT Scaleup Europe Fund, betting Europe needs its own reusable r...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...