Rocket Factory Augsburg plans to launch from SaxaVord Spaceport this year: image: Shetland Times Published by The Shetland Times, 21 February 2025 Danish billionaire Anders Povlsen has increased his stake in Shetland Space Centre via his company, Wild Ventures Ltd, which now owns more than half of its shares. New
An RS1 rocket from ABL Space Systems set up on a launch pad at the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska. (ABL Space Systems) By Davis Hovey, Published by KMXT, Kodiak, Alaska, 18 February 2025 The Alaska Aerospace Corporation is suing an aviation insurance group for the roughly $3 million it spent cleaning
The Space Force mission known as Victus Nox flew on a Firefly Alpha rocket. It lifted off Sept. 14, 2023, from Space Launch Complex 2 West at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit: Firefly Aerospace By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 15 February 2025 WASHINGTON — Space transportation company
By Douglas Gorman, Published by Payload, 13 February 2025 A new bipartisan bill introduced in the House this week would designate US space systems as critical infrastructure, offering them protection from the Department of Homeland Security. The Space Infrastructure Act seeks to codify in statute that space assets are so
Donald Trump launching the US Space Force, 2019 By Berny Torre, Published by The Morning Star, 13 February 2025 PLANS to build space radar dishes that would allow US President Donald Trump “to militarily dominate all of space” from Wales have taken a step towards a national debate. Peace campaigners
DARC technical demonstrator in White Sands, New Mexico Published by The Canary, 13 February 2025 Campaigners at PARC Against DARC, which launched in May 2024 to block the proposed US military DARC radars at Brawdy in Pembrokeshire say it’s only a matter of time until the proposed radars receive national
Illustration of the growing crowd and debris problem in GEO, which may be addressed by fast-responding traffic coordination AI. Credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL; CC BY-SA 3.0 By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 11 February 2025 The challenge is particularly acute in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) where many military communications and early warning
Image source: UK Defence Journal By George Allison, Published by UK Defence Journal, 10 February 2025 The Ministry of Defence has awarded a £127 million contract to Airbus to design and build the Oberon satellite system, boosting the UK’s Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities while supporting around 200 skilled
