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• Sandra Erwin
Denver-based satellite ground-software startup Quindar will manage ground operations for Quantum Space’s maneuverable spacecraft, linking its mission-control platform with a spacecraft designed for in-orbit movement. The agreement highlights the growing role of commercial software providers in operating increasingly capable satellite systems.
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Yank Technologies will assess whether satellites can be recharged in orbit using wireless power under a U.S. Space Force small-business contract. The concept could reduce reliance on physical docking during servicing missions, potentially enabling new approaches to satellite sustainment and on-orbit operations.
Denver-based satellite ground-software startup Quindar will manage ground operations for Quantum Space’s maneuverable spacecraft, linking its mission-control platform with a spacecraft designed for in-orbit movement. The agreement highlights the growing role of commercial software providers in operating increasingly capable satellite systems.
Six missions are scheduled across launch sites in Norway, India, New Zealand and the United States from Aug. 31 to Sept. 6. Isar Aerospace is targeting the second flight of its Spectrum rocket, while ISRO pursues an Earth-observation launch and SpaceX continues Starlink missions from Vandenberg.
All.Space has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit focused on increasing production rates for its Hydra satellite communications terminal. The award targets U.S. defense supply-chain capacity, linking satcom equipment demand with efforts to expand domestic manufacturing throughput.
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OHB has won a contract worth more than $1 billion to build the MEO satellite layer of Europe’s IRIS² constellation. Separate agreements cover Italy’s PRISMA Second Generation, constellr’s HiVE thermal-imaging platforms and ESA’s FALCON consortium for tracking uncontrolled atmospheric reentries.
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has left Earth aboard its mission to study dark energy and the evolving universe. The 300-megapixel observatory will spend roughly three months traveling to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, about one million miles away, before beginning its science mission.
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Viasat has placed its third ViaSat-3 satellite into commercial service across Asia-Pacific, adding more than one terabit per second of high-throughput Ka-band capacity. The satellite, launched in April 2026, will support connectivity services including those used by Delta Air Lines and Qantas.
Diffraqtion has raised $10 million to develop quantum imaging technology for space cameras, aiming to resolve details that conventional imaging systems cannot. The funding will support the startup’s efforts to advance higher-resolution capabilities for space-based observation and sensing applications.
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