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September 8th, 2025 — September 14th, 2025

SpaceX finally launches Indonesia’s Nusantara Lima mission on 9/11 from the Cape

The weather at the Cape in Florida finally cooperated after three unsuccessful scrubs as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on Thursday, September 11 launched the Nusantara Lima mission to geosynchronous tran [...]

SpaceX launches Space Development Agency’s top secret Tranche 1 mission on Wednesday from California

On Wednesday, September 10 at 7:12 a.m. PT the Falcon 9 launched the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) first Tranche 1 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East […]  [...]


SpaceX’s Saturday smallsat Starlink Mission 17-9 launch from foggy California

On Saturday, September 6 at 11:06 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in […]  [...]

Aechelon + partners Niantic Spatial, ICEYE, BlackSky and Distance debut Project Orbion

Aechelon Technology has announced ‘Project Orbion,’ together with its partners — a groundbreaking, new initiative that will integrate best-of-class technology solutions to create a live Digit [...]

ST Engineering iDirect achieves 1st 5G NTN PoC milestone

ST Engineering iDirect has achieved interoperability between the company’s ground system and the 5G Core through its Interworking Gateway Function. This demonstrated a non-3GPP satellite netw [...]

Es’hailSat, neXat MENA collaboration

A partnership between Qatari satellite company Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, and neXat, creators of the first satellite-specific open OSS/BSS platform, seeks to improve the way managed [...]

Forrester’s Digest: EchoStar sells spectrum to SpaceX; quits LEO plan

It seems that Charlie Ergen and EchoStar have decided to trim — if not exit — the satellite direct-to-consumer market. It is selling its AWS-4 and H-Block licenses (c. 50MHz […]  [...]

Starship business valued at $2.5tn by 2030

A report from ARK Investment Management forecasts that Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship business, which carried out its tenth test flight on August 26th, is likely to be valued at some […]  [...]

Thales Alenia Space leads 5G D2D demo for CNES with Capgemini + Thales Paris

Capgemini, Thales and Thales Alenia Space have been selected by the French Space Agency (CNES) as part of a government-backed call for projects under the France 2030 program to lead […]  [...]

AAC Clyde Space wins strategic order for first phase of ESA-backed satellite swarm mission

COMCUBE-S is a technical project aiming to develop new capabilities for observing Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB)—short-lived and extremely powerful events in space. By delivering faster and more detailed [...]

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