Satellite News

On August 31, 2026, space situational awareness (SSA) provider NorthStar Earth & Space was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead the FALCON initiative, an international industrial and […]

Elve said on August 19 that its 100 watt millimeter wave space amplifier had reached TRL-8, in a market where the incumbent describes itself as the only American maker of space-qualified traveling wave tubes. Dr. Diana Gamzina, the company’s founder and chief executive, joins the ground bottleneck panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.

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.