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Things are picking up rapidly for Belgium-based satellite manufacturer Aerospacelab. This year alone the company launched four demonstration satellites on the Transporter-10 rideshare mission, broke ground on a new mega factory in...

Space has always been a huge part of popular culture. In fact, some of the highest-grossing movies like “Star Wars” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” have space at the heart. The...

I would hazard a guess that most Via Satellite readers have been following Starship’s development tests fairly closely, or at the very least, watching the livestream tests. But to recap: Starship...

The new EU AI Act (at the time of writing, not published yet) is a seminal legal act, bringing rules for the development and placement of AI systems in the...

The U.S. Department of Defense seeks access to resilient, proliferated, and diverse mission architectures — and diversification includes the altitudes at which operations can take place. Very-low Earth orbit (VLEO),...

Moving With Speed Through Automation Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration Frank Calvelli laid out nine space acquisition tenets in October 2022, stating at that...

Changing Perspective on Electric Propulsion With more than 200 propulsion systems in space and an accumulated on-orbit time of over 400 years Field Emission Electric Propulsion (FEEP) technology has become...

Global launch services company Rocket Lab USA confirmed Monday that it completed integration and testing of two spacecraft it built for The University of California Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory and...

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) issued a pilot project award to geospatial analytics company SynMax and its Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) platform, Theia. SynMax announced Monday that the pilot program...

French startup Skynopy, which hopes to make connectivity-as-a-service a commercial reality, could close a number of deals this year ahead of expectations. The company, which is led by CEO Pierre...