Launch data: GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), used under CC BY 4.0.

HawkEye 360 released a whitepaper today on a demonstration funded by a ~$1.2M AFRL Phase II SBIR awarded in 2024. The test checked whether its RF-sensing satellites, which normally watch terrestrial ...

Which country has the most satellites? It’s not close. Of the 19,447 payloads in Earth orbit as of July 2026, per KeepTrack’s catalog, 13,276 belong to the United States. That’s 68 percent of ...

Elon Musk said on October 3 that early talks with TSMC about joining Terafab are “just discussions, but something may come of it.” Terafab is the chip plant Tesla and SpaceX are developing together.

Starlink opened a new revenue channel this week with the launch of its Communities Program, a beta that lets property owners share a single Starlink dish with nearby users who buy hourly, daily, ...

COSMOS 1925 is a Soviet military communications satellite launched on March 11, 1988, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome aboard a Kosmos 11K65M rocket. It was one of dozens of Strela-1M relay satellites ...

The FAA issued the launch license for Starship Flight 14 late Saturday, clearing SpaceX to attempt the vehicle’s first orbital flight on Monday, September 28. Liftoff from Starbase Pad 2 is targeted ...

SpaceX is preparing to launch USSF-385 from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday, the third mission in a classified Starshield constellation buildout for the U.S. Space Force. The flight follows ...

MEASAT-3 is a Malaysian communications satellite parked in geostationary orbit, operated by MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd out of Kuala Lumpur. It launched on December 11, 2006, from the Tyuratam ...

Iridium shareholders voted 99.6% in favor of Rocket Lab’s proposed buyout, clearing a major hurdle for the deal expected to close mid-2027 at roughly $54 per share in cash and RKLB stock. The ...

At 7:14 p.m. Eastern on September 26, 2022, a room full of engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland watched a gray, boulder-covered landscape swell to fill a screen, and ...

SpaceX completed the wet dress rehearsal for Starship Flight 14 on September 24, clearing the final major technical hurdle before the vehicle’s first orbital attempt. The launch window opens Monday, ...