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Portal Space selects ‘Space Armor’ debris shield for 2026 mission
1+ hour, 6+ min ago (499+ words) WASHINGTON " Portal Space Systems, a defense-focused space startup developing long-endurance maneuvering satellites for national security missions, has selected a new protective material made by Atomic-6 for a mission scheduled to launch in October 2026. Atomic-6, a startup that specializes in advanced…...
Slingshot wins $27 million Space Force contract for AI training system
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (519+ words) WASHINGTON " Slingshot Aerospace won a $27 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to further develop an artificial intelligence'based training system designed to prepare military personnel for conflict scenarios in space, the company said Jan. 15. The 18-month agreement supports the Space Force's…...
TrustPoint demonstrates non-GPS navigation for LEO satellites
5+ hour, 36+ min ago (338+ words) WASHINGTON " TrustPoint, a Virginia-based startup developing a network of navigation satellites in low Earth orbit, said it has successfully transmitted time and tracking signals from a ground station to a spacecraft in orbit, marking a key step in its effort…...
Crew-11 makes early return from ISS
11+ hour, 4+ min ago (694+ words) WASHINGTON " A Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the California coast Jan. 15, bringing back four people from the International Space Station more than a month early because of a medical issue with one of them. The Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour…...
Indian startup Aule Space enters satellite servicing market
11+ hour, 32+ min ago (747+ words) WASHINGTON " An Indian startup is entering the satellite servicing market with plans to develop low-cost spacecraft to extend the lives of satellites. Aule Space announced Jan. 15 that it raised a $2 million seed round from investors led by pi Ventures, an…...
Taiwan’s Moonshot: why 'T-Dome' needs systems engineering, not just a shopping list
21+ hour, 6+ min ago (385+ words) Fast-forward to October 2025 in Taiwan, when its President Lai Ching-te announced that the country must increase defense spending, framed as a climb toward 3% of GDP in the near term and 5% by 2030. Lai also created a new program: "T-Dome," an integrated…...
CAS Space conducts first suborbital launch and capsule landing test
22+ hour, 24+ min ago (300+ words) HELSINKI " Chinese commercial firm CAS Space launched its first Lihong-1 suborbital flight and recovery test mission, seeing a successful parachute descent of the capsule. Lihong-1 lifted off at 3:00 a.m. Eastern (0800 UTC) Jan. 12 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China....
ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission moves up launch
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (525+ words) WASHINGTON " A delay in one European Space Agency mission is creating an opportunity for an earlier, and more capable, launch for another ESA spacecraft. ESA's Comet Interceptor mission, designed to fly by a long-period comet, had been scheduled to launch…...
Clinton Clark, Author at SpaceNews
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (43+ words) Clinton Clark'SpaceNews Clinton Clark is chief growth officer at ExoAnalytic Solutions. If you stayed in a hotel last night, there's a good chance you saw that familiar placard in the bathroom: "Help save the planet " hang your towel and we…...
Space sustainability will evolve into a data-driven system
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (570+ words) And that, I told them, is how governments feel about Kessler syndrome. It's a dynamic we see across the space domain. We like to invoke the image of a runaway chain reaction of collisions, but our behavior shows we don't…...