Hubble Network adds $200 million and opens early service
The Seattle startup said so on Sept. 23.
23 September 2026 · SpaceNews
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Space Epoch closes B++ on methalox rocket
On Sept. 23, 2026 the Chinese commercial launch startup finalized the round.
23 Sept · Satnews
Inmarsat Government wins first MECS2 task order
The Viasat subsidiary received $42 million on Sept. 23, 2026.
23 Sept · Satnews
Sophia Space outlines $300 million lease path with SLI
A non-binding letter of support covers a planned 10-satellite TILE constellation.
21 Sept · Los Angeles Times
NASA adds three more Dragon crew flights
A $946 million modification covers Crew-15, Crew-16 and Crew-17.
19 Sept · TechBooky
SpaceX slips next Starship to Sept. 28
The move is a 6-day delay.
17 Sept · Space.com
Impulse Space adds $308M Series D extension
The round now totals $808M after a first $500M in June at a $4.26B valuation.
17 Sept · Payload
Satrec Initiative plans four 10-centimeter optical sats
The four spacecraft are meant to complement Hanwha’s 64-satellite SAR fleet.
17 Sept · SpaceNews
Simera Sense and IDOM team on MultiScape350 optics
The partnership was announced 17 September 2026 from Leuven, Belgium and Bilbao, Spain.
17 Sept · SpaceNews
Orange, Telesat open first European Lightspeed gateway
On Sept. 17, 2026, Orange and Telesat LEO ULC announced the commissioning.
17 Sept · SatNews
Icarus Robotics finishes JOY parabolic campaign
Four flights produced 66 weightless periods and 22 minutes of active testing.
17 Sept · Payload
FireSat trio returns first light and fire views
The first three operational FireSat satellites reached orbit July 7.
16 Sept · Markets Insider
Space42 and Viasat form Equatys for LEO fleet
The joint venture was formally established on Sept. 15, 2026.
15 Sept · SatNews
LandSpace Zhuque-2E lifts 10 Qianfan satellites
Zhuque-2E Y7 left the pad at 2:26 pm on Tuesday from Dongfeng.
15 Sept · Global Times
ESA books Nyx for European station cargo
The Exploration Company received a €760 million Phase 2 award under ALADDIN on 10 September in Paris.
10 Sept · European Spaceflight
Marlan and Loft commit $1B to grow Altair to 50
The consortium is committing $1 billion to expand the Altair constellation from 10 spacecraft to 50.
9 Sept · Crypto Briefing
Rocket Lab puts IMM Apex space solar cell into production
IMM Apex lists 31.5% Beginning of Life conversion efficiency.
8 Sept · Yahoo Finance
Stoke Space closes initial billion-dollar Series E
Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital co-led the round, lifting total capital raised to $2.3 billion.
8 Sept · Stoke Space
The Exploration Company raises $450 million Series C
Bessemer Venture Partners, Atomico and the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, co-led the round announced 8 September.
8 Sept · European Spaceflight
Stoke puts $1 billion Series E toward scaling Nova
Nova Block 2, disclosed publicly here for the first time, is stated to deliver 15 metric tons to low Earth orbit fully reusable.
8 Sept · Stoke Space
Isar Aerospace Spectrum reaches orbit on second flight
Spectrum lifted off at 10:12 pm local time from Andøya, Norway, and the company said it deployed five satellites into low Earth orbit.
8 Sept · Yahoo
AT&T and Amazon Leo deepen fiber-to-space broadband tie-up
The multi-year pact links AT&T’s national fiber and mobile network to Amazon Leo, formerly Project Kuiper.
8 Sept · Satnews
AvL wins $31 million Polish WGS terminal contract
On Tuesday, September 8, 2026, AvL Technologies, Inc. signed with GISS Sp. z o.o. for trailer-mounted terminals.
8 Sept · Satnews
Stoke Space takes $1 billion Series E toward first flights
The initial closing lifts the startup’s total raised to $2.3 billion.
8 Sept · TechCrunch
Kymeta books $20 million Pentagon satcom order
Kymeta Corporation announced the U.S. Department of Defense buy on September 4, 2026.
7 Sept · SatNews
U.S. launch and satellite firms pull out of Paris space summit
SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, and Starcloud withdrew on September 3, 2026.
7 Sept · SatNews
Falcon 9 puts 27 Starlink satellites in orbit from Vandenberg
On Sept. 6, 2026 the first stage landed as planned 8.5 minutes after launch on Of Course I Still Love You.
6 Sept · Yahoo
SpaceX flies 80th Starlink mission of 2026 from Vandenberg
Starlink 15-24 lifted at 7:26 a.m. PDT from Space Launch Complex 4 East.
5 Sept · Spaceflight Now
Isar Aerospace calls off Spectrum attempt at Andøya
Nordland Police lifted the Andøya Spaceport traffic ban at 14:25 CEST on 4 September.
4 Sept · European Spaceflight
Munich SSA startup Project-S leaves stealth with radar demo booked
A spokesperson said the first in-orbit active-radar demonstration is scheduled next month on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare.
4 Sept · European Spaceflight
Galaxia buys Simera Sense HyperScape100 imager
The Simera Sense press release is dated 3 September 2026 from Leuven, Belgium and Halifax, Canada.
3 Sept · SpaceNews
D-Orbit picks GomSpace for ION power systems
The contract is valued at 6.3 million Swedish kronor (MSEK).
1 Sept · SatNews
CycloRP detonates in Venus Aerospace RDRE hardware
CycloKinetics and Venus Aerospace announced the initial hot-fire tests on September 1, 2026.
1 Sept · SatNews
SpaceX seeks FCC comms authority for Starship Flight 14
The paperwork describes a first true orbital attempt, not a confirmed launch.
1 Sept · Teslarati
Diffraqtion more than doubles pre-seed to over $10 million
More than $5 million in additional funding was announced Monday.
31 Aug · Payload
Space Force ranges brace for hundreds more commercial launches
The Space Force could oversee as many as 700 to 3,000 launches a year by 2036, according to commercial launch estimates and force structure projections the service published in April.
28 Aug · airandspaceforces.com
Shanghai starts a rocket-city wharf
The Linzang Road wharf on the Huangpu River in Minhang is targeted for completion in early 2027.
28 Aug · spacenews.com
HIE buys Sutherland Spaceport assets from liquidators
Sutherland Spaceport Ltd entered compulsory liquidation on 18 June.
28 Aug · European Spaceflight
ESA signs first European Launcher Challenge contracts
The three awards total 543.6 million euros ($632.9 million).
28 Aug · spacenews.com
Space Force spent nearly $124 million on commercial space data
A new government audit tallies that marketplace outlay over less than three years.
27 Aug · SpaceNews
Morgan Lewis flags three federal ranges as 83 percent of U.S. launches
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Kennedy Space Center, and Vandenberg Space Force Base account for 83% of US launches, the firm wrote August 27, 2026.
27 Aug · morganlewis.com
Black Spade III agrees to merge with Astrum
On August 27, 2026, Black Spade Acquisition III Co entered a Business Combination Agreement with Astrum Space Inc; Astrum Holding is to receive 100,000,000 Listco Shares.
27 Aug · sec.gov
Astrum Space agrees $1 billion SPAC merger
Black Spade Acquisition III Co holds $172.5 million of cash in trust, according to the Aug. 27 announcement.
27 Aug · satellitetoday.com
Ottawa, N.L. and NordSpace put $10 million into Burin spaceport
NordSpace is adding $5 million of its own for the Atlantic Spaceport Complex in St. Lawrence.
27 Aug · cbc.ca
NASA adds $20 million to Infleqtion quantum gravity pathfinder
The follow-on award brings NASA’s investment in Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder to $40 million.
27 Aug · ir.infleqtion.com
Blue Canyon rolls out FleXbus kit
The Lafayette, Colo. firm said the subsystem expands FleXcore into a bus-function platform.
26 Aug · SpaceNews
SpaceX plans Starbase Louisiana for Starship
Construction is scheduled to begin in 2027, with first launches no earlier than 2029.
26 Aug · spacenews.com
Exolaunch books 68 satellites on two Falcon 9s
Exolaunch will deploy 68 customer satellites across Transporter-18 and Bandwagon-5, launching no earlier than October 2026.
25 Aug · exolaunch.com
SpaceX opens free collision platform
Mike Hoot said Stargaze tracks about 16,500 objects in low Earth orbit, about 48 percent of the Space-Track.org catalog, and space-safety.com is free to operators who share ephemerides.
25 Aug · spacenews.com
Impulse Space books GEO Caravan rideshares
Joshua Rea said Impulse Space closed bookings for Caravan in the first half of 2027 and now aims for about two GEO rideshare missions a year.
25 Aug · spacenews.com
Space Angel wins matched spaceport planning grant
Western Australia awards $1.75 million, to be matched by the Perth company.
25 Aug · SpaceNews
Tendeg unveils NewTEN steerable antenna
The two-axis compact reflector was shown Aug. 24 at the 40th Annual Small Satellite Conference.
25 Aug · SpaceNews
Kepler opens optical relay service
Kepler Communications said Aug. 24 it started commercial in-orbit optical data relay after commissioning 10 satellites of about 300 kilograms launched by SpaceX in January.
24 Aug · spacenews.com
Spirit puts TI and Microchip space parts on its web store
On August 24, 2026, the Phoenix firm said those high-reliability lines are now for sale at spiritelectronics.com.
24 Aug · SpaceNews
FAA seeks sites for new spaceports and launch corridors
Docket FAA-2026-9736, titled Siting New Spaceports and Use of Priority Airspace for Critical Space Launch Corridors, went on Federal Register public inspection August 24, 2026, with publication scheduled August 25.
24 Aug · newspaceeconomy.ca
LandSpace Zhuque-3 tips after pad landing
The Zhuque-3 Y2 first stage soft-landed Aug. 18, 2026, then tipped after a post-landing fire compromised a landing leg.
23 Aug · nasaspaceflight.com
Landspace targets Zhuque-3 booster reflight within six months
A company representative told STAR Market Daily the recovered stage would be tested for reflight in that window.
21 Aug · spacenews.com
Trump signs space transportation memorandum
On August 20, 2026, President Donald J. Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum aimed at more than 1,000 launches and reentries on American soil annually by 2030.
20 Aug · whitehouse.gov
Commerce opens Space Commerce Certification pilot
Office of Space Commerce asks U.S. entities to file interest by October 5, 2026 for the SCC Pilot Phase.
20 Aug · space.commerce.gov
White House updates U.S. space transportation policy
National Security Presidential Memorandum 17, dated August 20, 2026, sets a target of more than 1,000 launches and reentries on American soil a year by 2030.
20 Aug · space.commerce.gov
Muon Space raises $250 million to scale a mission foundry
On August 20, 2026, Muon closed a $250 million Series C led by Eclipse, taking total capital past $386 million with 50 satellites in work.
20 Aug · satellitetoday.com
Elve qualifies 100-watt millimeter-wave amplifier for space
U.S. Space Force Small Business Innovation Research money funded qualification of the Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier family for space environments.
20 Aug · SpaceNews
Landspace lands Zhuque-3 booster after second orbital flight
The first stage touched down on legs about 390 kilometers downrange in Minqin County, Gansu Province, at 7:43 p.m. Eastern on Aug. 18, 2026.
18 Aug · spacenews.com
Grounded rockets leave customers waiting
Jeff Foust wrote on August 17, 2026 that Cambridge researchers put launch cost at $3,868 per kilogram while operators still cannot buy rides.
17 Aug · thespacereview.com
Ars: commercial Falcon slots dry up after 2028
A majority of SpaceX revenue ($4.3 billion out of $7.8 billion) during the second quarter of 2026 came from Starlink.
17 Aug · arstechnica.com
Virgin Galactic slips next commercial flight to February
The company had been targeting late 2026 for a return to commercial service.
13 Aug · Yahoo Finance
Firefly posts $117.7 million quarter
Firefly Aerospace reported second-quarter revenue of $117.7 million, up 659% year-over-year, and guided 2026 full-year revenue to $420 million to $450 million.
11 Aug · sec.gov
SpaceX flies 90th Falcon 9 of the year from Vandenberg
Starlink 17-53 lifted off at 10:05 a.m. PDT on Tuesday, August 4, 2026.
4 Aug · Spaceflight Now
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