At the Living Planet 2025 Symposium of the European Space Agency in Vienna, which took place 24 June, Space Agency of the United Kingdom and the Incubed2 European Space Agency program have announced the results of a joint competition, that began in July 2024 year. Its total amount of funding is over 2,5 A million pounds. The winners were the following projects: Core system (COrner Reflector Enabled Remote Sensing – […]

Satellite images indicate severe damage to the Fordow nuclear facility after the US attack. Experts cannot confirm the extent of destruction due to the deep location of the object, but suspected Iran's export of enriched uranium before the blow. Commercial satellite images show, that US attack on Iranian nuclear plant in Fordda seriously damaged – and, perhaps, destroyed – deeply buried object and […]

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, that Europe should once again become a world space power, warning, that his country risks being pushed out of the world market for low-orbit satellite groups. Macron spoke at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, which is not far from the French capital, a day after that, as France increased its stake in the operator by more than half […]

23 June 2025 year Fr. 21:25 (UTC) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA with the help of the Falcon 9 Block 5 »was made a cluster launch of the 70's of various purpose Mission" Transporter 14 ". «Elarasat (MMS‑1)»-100kg Satellite-Bus from Gilmour Space (Australia); The first model elarasat block1. Carrying a CSIRO hyperspectral instrument for monitoring water quality and vegetation […]

23 June 2025 year Fr. 10:54 (UTC) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, launch was carried out with the help of the "Atlas V 551" launch vehicle 27 KA USA "Project Kuiper (The-02)». «Project Kuiper (The-02)» – This is a mega-constellation of satellites in a low Earth orbit, which will provide broadband online access, analogue of the American Starlink system. This constellation will be managed by Kuiper Systems […]

23 June 2025 year Fr. 06:58 (UTC) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, with the help of the "Falcon" launch vehicle 9 Block 5 ”was launched 27 US spacecraft "Starlink Group 10-23". Satellites "Starlink v2" – these are larger and more powerful communication satellites of SpaceX. They weigh approx 750 kg and have a design with two solar panels to increase the number […]

NASA announced, that an asteroid with a diameter of about 60 meters now has a slightly higher chance of hitting the moon. According to the most recent data collected, NASA's Near-Earth Object Research Center at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has clarified the asteroid's expected course 2024 YR4 and increased its probability of collision with the Moon 22 December 2032 year on 4,3%. The initial probability was 3,8%. Asteroid […]

18 June 2028 In India, registering and submitting ideas to the Hacket Bharatya Antariksh 2025 - a nationwide innovation competition, organized by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) With the participation of Hack2skill as an innovative partner. Isro calls students, undergraduates, postgraduates and doctoral students from all over India to apply their creativity, passion and skills to solve real problems, inspired by bold research programs […]

According to two American companies, which are engaged in tracking satellites, Chinese satellites, authentically, are trying to carry out the first ever refueling in orbit. This was reported by Breaking Defense. Chinese satellite, intended for refueling, approached extremely close to another Chinese satellite in orbit. It, According to companies, it indicates, that China is likely, going to carry out - or has already done […]

China launched a new satellite, designed to improve the country's early warning capabilities for natural disasters by monitoring the Earth's electromagnetic environment. Satellite, developed in partnership with Italy, launched aboard a Long March 2D rocket from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in the Gobi Desert. The Zhangheng 1B spacecraft entered the planned orbit. This is China's first satellite, specially designed for study […]

NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro and Anke Kaysser-Pizalla, chairman of the DLR executive board (German Center for Air- and space travel), 16 June 2025 signed an agreement on the continuation of partnership in the field of space medicine research. According to this agreement, DLR will provide new radiation sensors for the Orion spacecraft of NASA's Artemis II mission. Artemis II is scheduled to be launched in […]

Firefly Aerospace announces plans to offer commercial lunar imaging service to governments and companies, which could supplement or replace the existing one, but NASA's aging orbiter. 18 In June, Firefly announced a service called Ocula, which will render images using tools, placed on her spaceship Elytra. The system will use telescopes from Livermore National Laboratory […]

France will more than double its stake in Eutelsat to almost 30% within the framework of capital increase on 1,56 A billion dollars, supported by several shareholders, underpinning the French operator's plans to upgrade its OneWeb constellation amid the growing dominance of Starlink. Funds will be collected in two parts by the end of the year, Eutelsat announced 19 June, a day after that, […]

20 June 2025 year Fr. 12:37 (UTC) from the center of launch of satellites Sichan, China using the "Long March 3B/E" launch vehicle launched China's communications satellite "Chinasat 9C". "ChinaSat 9C" is a Ku geostationary telecommunications satellite- and Ka-bands, developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (Hull) commissioned by China Satcom. It is intended to replace the satellite "ChinaSat 9" […]

Located approx 36 000 kilometers above the ground from their orbital position directly above Guinean Gulf on zero longitude, Meteosat-12 provides a critically important image of Europe, Africa and surrounding oceans. It offers more often update data with a clearer resolution and implements new opportunities, such as continuous lightning detection, which increases the accuracy and accuracy of weather forecasts in […]

Blacksky Technology Inc.. 17 June 2025 year announced a significant expansion of its satellite group, By adding a new class of multi -speakers of a wide range of action. The future system, Known as Aros, Complement the existing constellation Gen-3, By providing rapid digital mapping, Navigation, Sea surveillance and large-scale 3D app. AROS satellites are being developed to meet the demand for increasing frequency of data collection at scale […]

The upper block of the SpaceX Starship spacecraft, which was being prepared for the company's next flight, exploded 19 in June during preparation for static fire tests. On video from such sources, like NASASpaceFlight.com, visible, as the apparatus called "Ship 36" exploded, Being on the Messi Playground test stand, that in a few kilometers west larger Starbase databases, Antonov Airlines Ukrainian Airline. «19 […]

In the letter, Sent 16 to key lawmakers on the intelligence committees in June, armed forces and appropriations, CEOs of Maxar Technologies, Planet, BlackSky, Iceye US, Capella Space and ground systems provider KSAT named in proposed cuts to National Intelligence Agency commercial imaging programs (NRO) "radical" and such, which do not correspond to the old bipartisan politics. This reaction appeared after about that, […]

Venturi Space (Monaco), company, which is collaborating with Astrolab on lunar rover concepts, presented an all-European rover design called Mona Luna at an event during the Paris Air Show 16 June. The robotic rover has a length 2,5 and width 1,64 meters, and the weight 750 kilograms. Mona Luna was designed by Venturi Space as a concept proposal for the European Space Agency […]

18 June 2025 year Fr. 05:55 (UTC) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, with the help of the "Falcon" launch vehicle 9 Block 5 ”was launched 28 US spacecraft "Starlink Group 10-18". Satellites "Starlink v2" – these are larger and more powerful communication satellites of SpaceX. They weigh approx 750 kg and have a design with two solar panels to increase the number […]