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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 […]