SpaceX Starship achieved its first orbital insertion on Flight 14, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites from 275 km altitude.
Rocket Lab deployed Synspective's 13th StriX SAR satellite on Sept. 26, its 97th Electron mission and 18th of 2026.
The UK RAF launched its first active orbital defense unit, backed by £880M in space control funding through 2029/2030.
ClearSpace and ESA finalize a €100 million contract to develop the Phoenix geostationary satellite life-extension spacecraft.
NASA's $15M FarmFlux campaign launches in 2026 to measure agricultural emissions using two research aircraft.
99.6% of votes cast approved Rocket Lab's ~$8B acquisition of Iridium, expected to close mid-2027.
Google launches its first AI satellite Oct 1, 2026, testing Trillium TPUs in low Earth orbit under Project Suncatcher.
NASA assigned four crew members from NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos to SpaceX Crew-14, targeting a spring 2027 ISS launch.
Firefly Aerospace quadruples spacecraft production capacity with a new ISO Class 8 cleanroom in Cedar Park, Texas.
The U.S. Space Force picks Northrop Grumman and True Anomaly to develop GHOST-R prototype reconnaissance satellites for GEO by 2028.