12 May 2026 year, the Singapore company Transcelestial announced, that conducted the test, during which ground stations in Singapore and Spain were able to detect and track laser transmissions from the satellite, built by Open Cosmos and launched last year. The company's co-founder and CEO Rohit Jha said, that this test is the last step before attempting to transfer data […]

Blue Origin has completed another series of tests of its unmanned lunar lander and is moving the vehicle closer to the launch pad. The company expects to make the first unmanned landing on the moon this year. Blue Origin is building two landing modules. First, Blue Moon MK1, intended for unmanned flights and testing technologies, named Endurance. It has recently been tested in a vacuum chamber […]

European Space Agency (THIS) actively implements augmented reality technologies — from training astronauts to open platforms for developers and the general public. Expected, that these tools will change the approach to space operations and popularization of science. Augmented reality (XR) is a collective term for several related technologies. Virtual reality completely immerses a person in an artificial environment, augmented reality imposes […]

The management of MDA Space stated, which continues to be actively working on the Canadarm3 robotic arm, despite NASA's March announcement of the de facto cancellation of the Gateway project in favor of a lunar base focus. Canadarm3 is Canada's contribution to Gateway, to which Europe also joined, Japan, United Arab Emirates and NASA. For reference: MDA Space is a leading Canadian aerospace and technology company […]

A geological crisis is taking place in the capital of Mexico, which threatens the safety of almost 20 million residents of the metropolis. Satellite, developed jointly by NASA and ISRO, provided evidence of an acceleration of this destructive trend, by making a map of the subsidence of Mexico City. NISAR apparatus (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) was able to record the evolution of soil subsidence with unprecedented detail. The researchers analyzed satellite data, collected during the dry season […]

8 May 2026 of the year Commercial Space Office of the Space Systems Command (OKK KKS) The USA announced the conclusion of a contract with the company Viasat 307 million dollars to provide satellite communications services for the US Marine Corps. The company retained this work, winning the re-tender. For reference: Viasat Inc. is a global American telecommunications and satellite company from […]

12 May 2026 year Fr. 11:59 (UTC) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, China, with the help of the "Long March 6A" launch vehicle, the 18th Chinese "G60 Polar Group 09" spacecraft was launched. G60 Polar Group 09 – is a group of 18 communication satellites in low Earth orbit with a payload in the Ku bands, Q and V for grouping […]

12 May 2026 year Fr. 02:13 (UTC) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA, with the help of the "Falcon" launch vehicle 9 Block 5" was launched by the NROL-172 mission spacecraft. The "NROL-172" mission has a completely secret nature, since the main customer is the US National Intelligence Service, and therefore the purpose of the NROL-172 mission spacecraft is not known. The payload is probably a batch of "Starshield" satellites. […]

8 May 2026 year, NASA and spacecraft manufacturer Katalyst Space reported, that Katalyst's Link spacecraft, designed to raise the orbit of a NASA astronomical satellite, successfully completed a series of environmental tests at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The tests included vibration testing to simulate the conditions, that Link will experience during launch on a Northrop rocket […]

7 May 2026 Paraguay signed the Artemis Agreement, becoming the sixth country, which did so in the last two and a half weeks after Latvia, Jordan, Morocco, Malta and Ireland. Head of the Paraguayan Space Agency Osvaldo Almirón Riveros signed during a ceremony in. Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. The event was attended by representatives of the US Embassy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay. […]

7 May 2026 2018, the American private aerospace company Rocket Lab announced the largest launch contract in the company's history, and also about the acquisition of the company, that deals with space robotics. For reference: Rocket Lab, founded in 2006 year, specializes in the development of lightweight Electron launch vehicles for launching small satellites (CubeSat) and creation of satellites. The company actively uses 3D printing and is […]

7 May 2026 2018, the British startup SatVu released images from HotSat-2, a thermal satellite, created for energy infrastructure monitoring. The images showed the processing of domestic crude oil in Cuba, reduced operational capacity at the world's largest oil refinery in India during disruption of shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as continuous production at one of the largest in the world […]

Startup Scout Space, which specializes in space monitoring technologies, closed the Series A financing round on 18 millions of dollars, which will support future missions and expand the company's production capacity, in particular, for the arrangement of the production premises with an area 2600 square feet in Northern Virginia. Founded in 2019 Scout develops sensors and detection software, […]

11 May 2026 year Fr. 00:14 (UTC) from Wenchang Cosmodrome, China launched the Chinese satellite "Tianzhou 10" using the "Long March 7" launch vehicle. «Tianzhou 10» – Chinese automated cargo spacecraft, developed on the basis of the first prototype of the Chinese space station "Tiangong-1" to replenish the supplies of the Chinese space station. It was launched for the first time ("Tianzhou-1") with the help of the "Changjeong" missile […]

Recent attacks on cloud facilities and ground-based satellite infrastructure have heightened concerns, that some of the space industry's most critical assets are becoming targets in today's conflicts. Despite that, that ground stations are a necessary link between satellites and users, they were overlooked for a long time, unlike orbital vehicles and rockets, which launch them into orbit. […]

Chinese commercial launch startup Nayuta Space has completed back-to-back rounds of Pre-A funding to support the development of its unconventional Xuanniao-R launch vehicle concept. Funding will be directed to fire tests of the second degree, test flights with aerodynamic braking, research in the wind tunnel and development of rocket return technologies. The Xuanniao-R two-stage rocket is long 70 meters and diameter 3,8 m uses an unconventional approach […]

French satellite operator Eutelsat and Indian maritime service provider Station Satcom have signed a multi-year agreement to extend OneWeb's LEO communications services to Station Satcom's maritime fleet. The agreement is based on the previous activation of 2025 year, which covered hundreds of Station Satcom vessels, and expands the number of ships, using OneWeb services, to over 1000 units. For reference: Eutelsat […]

Because direct-to-smartphone services are blurring the line between space and ground communication, hybrid constellations bring communications and imaging together in orbit. One of the most striking examples is Space42 from the United Arab Emirates, formed by the merger of the geostationary communications operations of Yahsat and the geospatial analytics business of Bayanat. In partnership with Finnish synthetic aperture radar operator Iceye, Space42 […]

A new system of artificial intelligence reduces the time of preparation for complex space maneuvers 100 times - from months to seconds. The development concerns the calculation of the jet effect of engines: phenomena, which can damage the device's own structures during the operation of traction systems. When a rocket engine turns on in a vacuum, the gas instantly expands in all directions — this creates complex thermal and […]

At the end of April, the world's first global data set was published, which shows the boundaries of agricultural fields. It is the result of an 18-month campaign by geospatial data specialists from industry and academia. Initiative, which was led by the non-profit organization Taylor Geospatial and the Microsoft AI for Good Lab, created an open and publicly available data set, which can be used to ensure food security, accounting […]