Every Space Tech story tagged Missions & payloads.
Dawn Aerospace has broken ground on a $7.5 million operations facility at Infinity One Oklahoma Spaceport to support its reusable Aurora spaceplane, with flights planned to begin in 2027 and a customer booking up to 100 flights.
HawkEye 360 successfully tested its commercial RF-sensing satellites to detect signals from spacecraft in LEO, MEO, and GEO under a $1.2 million AFRL Phase II SBIR contract awarded in 2024.
Satellite manufacturer Astro Digital will merge with Proem Acquisition Corp I in a SPAC deal valuing it at $587 million, expected to close in Q1 2027.
SWISSto12's CFO announced 200 million in revenue and profitability for 2026, driven by 3D-printed satellite payloads.
China has successfully demonstrated a two-way laser communications link across 400,000 km between Earth and the Moon, a key technology for its planned lunar missions.
Sierra Space has secured undisclosed national security and commercial customers to fly payloads on the inaugural mission of its Dream Chaser spaceplane.
Open Cosmos is a UK government certified partner to provide satellite connectivity via its ConnectedCosmos LEO constellation under the TacSys framework.
NASA awarded Blue Origin up to $700 million to build a Mars telecom orbiter by 2028 to support future missions.
Viasat's third ViaSat-3 satellite, designated F3, entered service on Monday, adding 1 terabit per second of capacity to its network over the Asia-Pacific region.