Blue Origin was able to stick the landing at sea with a previously flown rocket booster - which is a first for the New Glenn launch system. However, the satellite that was launched didn't reach its intended orbit, and the company says it's assessing the situation. www.geekwire.com/2026/blue-or...
Is Canada getting on-orbit counterspace capabilities? "MDA MIDNIGHT™: A space control platform" that has "a suite of active and passive payload capabilities" in order "to intercept, deter or counter objects"
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They nearly sabotaged that business too. Apollo Fusion went through the ringer after getting acquired. It's a small miracle they survived being part of Astra.
Glad to see this rivalry still going strong
The D2D race just got a lot more interesting.
Rheinmetall and Destinus to combine forces in new missile systems joint venture
breakingdefense.com/2026/04/rheinmetall-and-...
SpaceX launched its 1,000th Starlink satellite of the year with a pre-dawn Falcon 9 rocket mission Tuesday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. 📷 John Pisani/Spaceflight Now.
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April 14, 2023: Launch of the Juice mission on an Ariane 5 launcher.
Juice images Earth during lunar-Earth flyby
First radargram from Juice’s RIME instrument
Juice's full path, 3 years into its journey.
Three years since Juice launched on its journey to Jupiter. 🧪🔭
Arriving in 2031, it will explore the giant planet and its icy ocean moons, seeking to study them as both planetary objects and possible habitats.
More info 👇 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Meet Gauss: Our in-house designed and built electric propulsion system.
Designed for high volume production to meet constellation demand. The production line is already established, ready to pump out 200+ Gauss propulsion systems every year.
Read more: bit.ly/3OnUCJ9
Just two hours until our @QuiltySpace Starlink financial webinar! Attendance is free. Starts at 11:00am ET: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f0290b...
ICYMI: The NSF Green Bank Telescope is supporting NASA's Artemis II mission by helping track the Orion spacecraft with radar. 🚀📡
#ArtemisII #Artemis2 #NasaArtemis #GreenBankTelescope #GBT
#RocketLab expands into Europe with the acquisition of Munich-based #Mynaric, securing key laser communication tech for its satellite constellations.
🔗 Read: spacewatch.global/2026/03/rocket-lab-set-t...
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Delta Air Lines will activate (at least) 500 aircraft on the Amazon Leo inflight internet service from 2028. The deal will bring low-latency, high-bandwidth capacity to the fleet, boosting performance for passengers and crew alike.
#IFEC $DAL $AMZN $VSAT $SATS
#PaxEx #AvGeek
#HyImpulse signs with #SaxaVord for the next #SR75 flight, marking its first launch from European soil and a shift toward domestic mission autonomy.
🔗 spacewatch.global/2026/03/hyimpulse-and-sa...
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🙂 The next launch from Europe's Spaceport will be Vega-C flight #VV29 taking @science.esa.int and the Chinese Academy of Science's Smile mission to space 🚀
Half disc of Saturn seen in colours ranging from pale rose to butterscotch and sapphire blue give this inhospitable gas planet a romantic appeal. Shadows of the rings cross the northern latitudes whose blue colour is presumed to be a seasonal effect. The tiny dot of moon Enceladus hugs the ringplane right of centre.
#OTD 20 years ago, 16 March 2006, Saturn as seen by NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini, with the moon Enceladus hugging Saturn’s ringplane right of centre, from a distance of approx. 2.1 million km from the gas giant (pic: NASA/JPL/SSI) @carolynporco.bsky.social @science.esa.int
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Launch the North: Canada bets $305M on domestic rockets and a Nova Scotia Spaceport to secure the high ground
In one fell swoop, the government has traded decades of sitting on the sidelines for a concrete commitment to sovereign launch, anchored by a $200-million spaceport lease.
A cosmic ray simulator for extreme science on Earth
🆕 Cosmic rays simulator in Darmstadt, Germany.
⚛️ For the first time in Europe, researchers are accelerating charged atoms up to around 90% the speed of light to recreate the full spectrum of cosmic radiation. 🧪🔭
🔗 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
(Pic: GSI/FAIR)
On Feb-4, @Starlink disabled terminals in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine that weren't on Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's approved list.
We saw a 75% drop in Starlink traffic to Ukraine as a result. 🤯
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
AndroMach put its camera a little too close to the business end of its BANGER engine during a recent hot-fire test. Video credit: AndroMach
SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket tonight carrying a television satellite for EchoStar and the Dish Network. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 12:19 a.m. EDT (0419 UTC). Watch live: youtube.com/live/DkoUlUM...
James Webb Space Telescope spots faint asteroid 2024 YR4
☄️ Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon in 2032!
New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that the object will pass safely at a distance of more than 20 000 km.
(Pic: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Micheli (ESA NEOCC)
We project more than 100 new gateways in 2026 as Starlink adds capacity in mature but high demand markets like the US and Australia, plus gateways to ease latency and network strain in places like Indonesia and sub-Saharan Africa.
It's wild to me that search engine AIs keep pulling up 150 gateways as a representative figure for Starlink.
At Quilty, we estimate Starlink ended 2025 with approx. 350 gateways, with major concentrations in the US, Australia, Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines.
A new £500 million space sector spending package announced by the UK government on 4 March includes £20 million to accelerate the development of spaceport infrastructure in Scotland.
europeanspaceflight.com/the-uk-will-...
ANOMALY: Space One's KAIROS rocket has once again failed during first stage flight.
Following an explosion, which could have been the flight termination system, the vehicle spun out of control.
📷 和歌山県庁成長産業推進課
#ENPULSION raises €22.5M to expand US operations. With 500+ years of flight heritage, they are scaling modular #FEEP systems for global satellite constellations.
🔗 spacewatch.global/2026/03/enpulsion-secure...
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