Satellite News

On August 20, 2026, satellite manufacturer Muon Space announced it secured $250 million in Series C financing, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.5 billion. The funding round was led by […]

On August 20, 2026, an environmental analysis of commercial orbital computing filings highlighted the long-term e-waste and upper-atmosphere pollution risks posed by proposed mega-constellations dedicated to space-based artificial intelligence processing. […]

On August 19, 2026, Firefly Aerospace announced an agreement with radioisotope power developer Zeno Power to integrate a radioisotope heating unit (RHU) aboard an upcoming Blue Ghost lunar lander mission. […]

On August 18, 2026, Australian space situational awareness vendor HEO announced a strategic partnership with Earth observation operator Planet Labs PBC to integrate Planet’s SkySat constellation into HEO’s Non-Earth Imaging […]

Motion and fluid control systems manufacturer Moog Inc. announced a new High Delta-V configuration for its flight-proven METEORITE satellite bus platform. The platform variant provides increased thrust and expanded propellant […]

The Golden Dome interceptor layer has twelve companies competing against a 2028 clock and a fiscal 2027 request that Congress has not funded. Phil Carrai, whose Kratos division holds an agreement worth up to $446.8 million for ground management and integration on the Space Force’s medium orbit missile warning and tracking architecture, moderates the industrial capacity panel at the MilSat Symposium.

On August 19, 2026, Davis, California-based high-power amplifier manufacturer Elve announced that its 100 W millimeter-wave (mmWave) Space Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA) platform achieved Technology Readiness Level 8 (TRL-8) […]

Targeting the operational friction and processing overhead of raw satellite data, Earth observation operators are transitioning from selling unprocessed imagery to delivering vertical-specific analytics platforms via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). […]