Satellite News

On Sunday, August 30, 2026, NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Following orbital insertion, […]

For decades the U.S. had one supplier of space-qualified traveling wave tube amplifiers. Elve CEO Diana Gamzina says its TRL-8 qualification makes it two — and the Justice Department spent the first half of 2026 making the same single-source argument about the market next door. Qualification is not flight heritage, and the incumbent counts more than 340 million on-orbit hours.

On August 30, 2026, NASA initiated launch operations for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, its next flagship astrophysics observatory, featuring primary scientific instrument assemblies engineered and delivered by BAE […]

On August 29, 2026, Firefly Aerospace Chief Executive Officer Jason Kim addressed the global supply-demand deficit in commercial and government orbital launch services. In an interview detailing state-of-the-market dynamics, Kim […]

On August 29, 2026, European aerospace group Airbus initiated a strategic review of its U.S. satellite manufacturing business, evaluating options that include a potential sale of its automated production facility […]

Blue Origin has three ground stations running and six more to build by December, and the partner surveying, procuring, deploying and hosting them is RBC Signals. Ron Faith, the company’s president and chief executive, joins the ground bottleneck panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.

On Wednesday, August 26, 2026, commercial radar analytics operator LeoLabs announced it secured a $20.7 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to supply mobile radar hardware for Space Domain […]

On Thursday, August 27, 2026, NASA announced that astronaut Lt. Cmdr. Jonny Kim has departed the civilian space agency to return to full-time active military duty with the U.S. Navy. […]