We’re closer to living on the Moon than we think. In 10 years, we’ll have permanent lunar colonies with real people living there full-time. NASA’s Artemis program will be building actual habitats designed for long-term survival. SpaceX and Blue Origin have slashed launch costs

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Your kids might take field trips to space instead of museums Mass space tourism will be here soon. Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are already flying paying customers to the edge of space. SpaceX’s Starship could make orbital hotels reality by 2030. Prices are dropping fast and

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SpaceX just put “AI data centers in space” on the table. SpaceX has asked U.S. regulators for permission to build a huge new fleet of satellites that would act like solar-powered “data centers” in orbit for AI computing. It’s only a proposal for now, but it shows SpaceX is

Airbus says it will launch its first Pléiades Neo Next imaging satellite in early 2028 from the Guiana Space Centre on Vega C, operated by Avio. The spacecraft is designed to deliver roughly 20 cm class native resolution and quicker tasking and delivery for both government and

Europe’s space program has signed a new contract to launch its next second-generation Galileo navigation satellites on the Ariane 6 rocket, bringing the mission back to a European launcher after recent reliance on SpaceX. The agreement underlines the EU’s push for greater

Northwood Space has closed a $100 million Series B funding round. The company also landed a $49.8 million, three-year U.S. Space Force contract to support upgrades to the Satellite Control Network, one of the core ground systems used to track and control national-security

Satellite manufacturer York Space Systems debuted on the New York Stock Exchange, raising $629 million and reaching a roughly $4.75 billion valuation as shares opened higher. Investors are betting that growing demand from the U.S. Department of Defense will keep orders strong for

Celestis, a company that offers “memorial spaceflights,” has booked Stoke Space’s reusable Nova rocket for a deep-space mission planned for late 2026. The launch will carry tiny capsules containing customers’ cremated remains or DNA beyond the Earth–Moon system and into a

SpaceX’s Starlink says it will lower its satellite constellation from about 550 km to 480 km over the course of 2026 to improve orbital safety and reduce collision risk. The move follows a recent Starlink satellite anomaly that produced a small amount of debris, and it signals

SpaceX closed out 2025 with 165 orbital launches, setting a new annual record for the sixth straight year. Most of the flights were reusable Falcon 9 missions supporting Starlink, highlighting how routinely the company can launch and recover rockets at near-industrial cadence.

U.S. government IT contractor CACI has won a five-year task order worth up to $212 million to modernize the U.S. Space Force’s base-area networks. The effort will replace and unify legacy infrastructure across 14 Space Force installations with a software-defined, more secure

Spain’s defense-and-tech group Indra has completed a €725M deal to buy 89.68% of Hispasat, the company that operates Spain’s main communications satellites, from Redeia. Indra is folding the operator into its space business, naming Indra executive Luis Mayo as Hispasat CEO and

Spire Global has shipped nine satellites, including its new Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder demonstrator, to Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of launch on a Falcon 9 Twilight mission. The sensor is designed to improve global weather forecasting from space by capturing more

The UK Space Agency is investing £6.9 million in five ESA ARTES satellite communications projects, ranging from in-orbit refuelling and 5G-from-space to optical links for lunar missions. The package is intended to boost connectivity on Earth and around the Moon while cementing