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Kongsberg NanoAvionics unveiled a 500-kilogram version of its MP42D satellite bus, increasing the platform’s maximum supported mass by more than twofold. The larger bus is designed to accommodate more demanding defense and intelligence missions, expanding the company’s offering for heavier spacecraft payloads.
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Beyond Reach Labs has unveiled Flarewing, a patent-pending solar-array deployment system designed to fold flat during launch and expand in orbit. The startup says its large deployable structures could enable small satellites to generate substantially more power without requiring correspondingly larger launch configurations.
Star Catcher Industries, which is developing power-beaming technology for satellites, has signed an agreement with Aethero to distribute its technology. The deal marks a commercial step for Star Catcher as it seeks to advance space-based power delivery for satellite operators and other customers.
Finland’s ICEYE has established an Indian entity to provide Earth-observation and intelligence capabilities to local agencies, while planning local production capacity for radar satellites. The move targets India’s defense and space markets and supports the country’s ambitions for sovereign space-based intelligence and national-security capabilities.
Veoware successfully demonstrated its mini control moment gyroscopes (miniCMGs) aboard a Planet Pelican Earth-observation satellite, marking the technology’s first demonstration in orbit. The test represents an in-space milestone for Veoware’s compact spacecraft attitude-control technology.
Kongsberg NanoAvionics unveiled a 500-kilogram version of its MP42D satellite bus, increasing the platform’s maximum supported mass by more than twofold. The larger bus is designed to accommodate more demanding defense and intelligence missions, expanding the company’s offering for heavier spacecraft payloads.
Satellite signals-intelligence provider Hawkeye 360 reported 33% organic revenue growth for the three months ended June 30. Including its December 2025 acquisition of Innovative Signals Analysis, revenue growth reached 87%, with international business expanding faster than the company’s U.S. operations.
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Ariane 6 has reached geostationary orbit for the first time, launching the MTG-I2 satellite in a milestone for Europe’s newest heavy-lift rocket. The mission demonstrates Ariane 6’s capability for GEO deployments and advances Europe’s Meteosat Third Generation weather-satellite program.
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Rocket Lab says demand for its forthcoming Neutron rocket is strong enough to require mission selectivity, with a successful launch potentially supporting positive EBITDA the following quarter. Separately, Synspective plans its 11th StriX SAR satellite launch on Electron on Aug. 31, while germanium exposure highlights supply-chain risk.
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