French CSO-3 spy satellite. Credit: Cnes, D. Ducros. By Andrew Parsonson, Published by European Spaceflight, 6 March 2025 Arianespace has successfully launched the CSO-3 reconnaissance satellite for the French Armed Forces aboard an Ariane 6 rocket. This marks the rocket’s first commercial mission following its mostly successful inaugural test flight
The RAF surveillance aircraft Rivet Joint is one of several sources of reconnaissance data that is shared with Ukraine to enable strikes into Russia. Photograph: Aviation Visuals/Alamy By Dan Sabbagh and Luke Harding, Published by The Guardian, 6 March 2025 Britain will also continue to supply analysis of raw data
By Clarence Oxford, Published by Space Daily, 6 March 2025 Los Angeles CA (SPX) - SatixFy Communications (NYSE American: SATX) has been awarded GBP 1.8 million (approximately $2.3 million) by the UK Space Agency through its C-LEO program. The funding is designated for the creation of an advanced software suite
Johnston Island, as seen from a U.S. Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircraft, Oct. 1, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard) Published by Stars and Stripes, 4 March 2025 The Department of the Air Force has tagged an isolated Pacific island as a test site for landing rockets capable of delivering tons of
By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 3 March 2025 WASHINGTON — In pointed remarks that emphasized the military nature of America’s newest service branch, the head of the U.S. Space Force called on its members to embrace their role as warriors in space. Speaking March 3 at the Air
Aurora spacecraft. Photo: POLARIS Raumflugzeuge Published by Militarnyi, 2 March 2025 German outlet Hartpunkt reported that Germany’s Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology, and In-Service Support has awarded a contract to develop a reusable, two-stage hypersonic research spacecraft. The project has been entrusted to POLARIS Raumflugzeuge, a German startup that will
An interceptor launches from an Iron Dome missile-defense system at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., in this undated photo posted online by the U.S. Army. By Sandra Erwin, Published by Space News, 28 February 2025 WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has quietly renamed the Trump administration’s ambitious national missile defense initiative
By Patrick Tucker, Published by Defense One, 27 February 2025 The newest service wants to understand where automation can augment—or even replace—humans in monitoring space for threats. The Space Force will need to use AI in new ways to identify and track objects in space—also called “space domain awareness”—as space
