Satellite News

On Tuesday, October 20, 2026, SpaceX released its third-quarter financial results, reporting that Starlink’s global subscriber base reached 13.6 million customers following a quarterly net addition of 1.6 million users. […]

On Wednesday, October 21, 2026, satellite communications provider Viasat Inc. announced the successful orbital launch of the Maxwell spacecraft to advance its demonstration mission for NASA’s Communications Services Project (CSP). […]

BlackSky said on October 15 that it had extended an agreement with HEO into a third year, putting spare capacity on its imaging satellites to work photographing other satellites. Scot Currie, who ran the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency group that managed national and commercial satellite imagery operations before he joined the company, sits on the commercial GEOINT panel at Silicon Valley Space Week.

On Wednesday, October 21, 2026, Earth observation operator Marble Imaging, satellite manufacturer Reflex Aerospace, and optical communications specialist Odysseus Space announced a joint mission to deploy space-to-ground laser communications aboard […]

On Tuesday, October 20, 2026, the U.S. Space Force released a comprehensive modernization plan to overhaul the Eastern and Western Ranges, establishing operational targets into the 2030s to support up […]