Satellite News

On August 17, 2026, direct-to-device (D2D) satellite operators Lynk Global and Omnispace announced the formal completion of their corporate merger, launching a combined operational entity rebranded as Elveo Mobile (Elveo). […]

Astroscale U.S. has a $25.5 million refueling spacecraft built and waiting on a ride to geostationary orbit. Janna Lewis carries the policy case for that mission, and she appears on both Silicon Valley Space Week stages: a panelist on the orbital data center session at Satellite Innovation, and moderator of the closing commercial architectures panel at the MilSat Symposium.

On August 17, 2026, NASA announced the successful flight demonstration of the Fast Autonomous Lost-in-space Catalog-based Optical Navigation (FALCON) system aboard the agency’s Starling CubeSat mission in low Earth orbit. […]

On August 15, 2026, VinSpace, the space technology arm of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, signed a launch services agreement with SpaceX to deploy its initial batch of commercial nanosatellites into Low […]

On August 15, 2026, SpaceX completed two orbital Falcon 9 launches within 38 minutes from operational pads on opposite coasts of the United States. The high-cadence launch doubleheader deployed the […]

On August 10, 2026, a Japanese H-3 launch vehicle lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center carrying Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7 (QZS-7) spacecraft, which hosts an optical Space Domain Awareness […]

DarkSky International—acting alongside the American Bird Conservancy, Environment America, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)—filed a formal Application for Review demanding that the full Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reverse […]

Joseph Yaffe is Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Cowboy Space Corporation, which has filed to fly up to 20,000 orbital data center satellites. He joins the orbital data center panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.