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Skynopy Raises €15M to Build Global High-Throughput Ground-Station Network

French NewSpace startup Skynopy has secured €15 million ($17.5 million) in a funding round led by CNES to expand its ground-station-as-a-service offering. The company plans to deploy over 100 S- and X-band antennas worldwide, providing real-time, high-throughput connectivity for LEO geospatial imaging satellites.

2025-06-30T05:23:18.493462-07:00

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SpaceX Launches Axiom Mission 4, Sending First Indian, Polish and Hungarian Astronauts to ISS in 40 Years

2025-06-24T23:59:35.425004-07:00

Associated Press

Japan’s H-IIA Rocket Retires after 50th Launch with GOSAT-GW Climate Satellite

2025-06-28T10:03:00.053295-07:00

Fox Weather

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Unveils First Images, Captures Nebulae and Thousands of Asteroids

2025-06-23T04:39:34.140481-07:00

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Liberatech Space unveils customizable Earth observation services for commodity, energy and environmental monitoring Liberatech Space will launch custom Earth-observation products aimed at commodity, energy and environmental monitoring, offering high-resolution imagery and analytics tailored to each sector’s requirements. The services include multispectral data feeds, time-series analysis and bespoke reporting tools to help clients optimize resource management and environmental assessments.

2025-06-30T15:35:03.980182-07:00

Liberatech Space unveils customizable Earth observation services for commodity, energy and environmental monitoring

Aerospace America

GPS Pioneer Sounds Alarm on Satellite Vulnerabilities, Proposes Constellation Proliferation Bradford Parkinson, widely regarded as the architect of GPS, warned that GPS satellites remain physically vulnerable to anti-satellite attacks and urged a proliferation of low-cost constellations to complicate targeting. He stressed that fusing inertial measurement units with GPS is vital but insufficient to counter emerging threats.

2025-06-30T14:11:37.462354-07:00

GPS Pioneer Sounds Alarm on Satellite Vulnerabilities, Proposes Constellation Proliferation

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AAC Clyde Space Equity Sale Pushes Shares Down Before CEO-Led Rebound AAC Clyde Space, the small satellite hardware and data-service provider, raised capital through a discounted equity placement, triggering a 7% share price decline on the news. The stock recovered after CEO Colin McClelland purchased shares, signaling leadership confidence in the company's growth prospects in the burgeoning New Space market.

2025-06-30T13:01:38.305396-07:00

AAC Clyde Space Equity Sale Pushes Shares Down Before CEO-Led Rebound

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Skynopy Raises €15M to Build Global High-Throughput Ground-Station Network French NewSpace startup Skynopy has secured €15 million ($17.5 million) in a funding round led by CNES to expand its ground-station-as-a-service offering. The company plans to deploy over 100 S- and X-band antennas worldwide, providing real-time, high-throughput connectivity for LEO geospatial imaging satellites.

2025-06-30T05:23:18.493462-07:00

Skynopy Raises €15M to Build Global High-Throughput Ground-Station Network

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Space Forge’s ForgeStar-1 Begins In-Orbit Semiconductor Manufacturing Demo UK startup Space Forge has launched ForgeStar-1 and established in-orbit communications to test semiconductor fabrication techniques in low-Earth orbit. The mission represents the first step toward its reusable ForgeStar platform, aiming to validate production processes beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

2025-06-30T04:19:18.045446-07:00

Space Forge’s ForgeStar-1 Begins In-Orbit Semiconductor Manufacturing Demo

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India Accelerates Space-Based Surveillance with 52 Defence Satellites by 2029 India’s Defence Ministry has approved a ₹26,968-crore Space-Based Surveillance (SBS) programme to deploy 52 dedicated defence satellites by 2029, bolstering ISR coverage across China, Pakistan and the Indian Ocean Region. The initiative, spurred by Operation Sindoor, runs alongside plans to acquire high-altitude platform system (HAPS) aircraft for extended missions.

2025-06-29T21:39:28.841611-07:00

India Accelerates Space-Based Surveillance with 52 Defence Satellites by 2029

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Arianespace to launch CO3D and MicroCarb climate satellites on July 25 via Vega C On July 25, 2025, Arianespace will launch a pair of climate-monitoring satellites – Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D constellation and CNES’s MicroCarb – aboard its Vega C rocket to map atmospheric CO₂ sources and sinks globally, with MicroCarb’s spectrometer integrated by Thales Alenia Space UK under a UK Space Agency partnership.

2025-06-29T20:22:19.357467-07:00

Arianespace to launch CO3D and MicroCarb climate satellites on July 25 via Vega C

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Blue Origin flies six tourists, including space’s 750th traveler, on 13th crewed New Shepard mission Blue Origin on June 29 launched a reusable New Shepard booster from its West Texas site, carrying six paying passengers – including the 750th person ever to fly to space – on a 10-minute suborbital trip. It marks the 13th crewed flight and third in under three months.

2025-06-29T08:14:41.507150-07:00

Blue Origin flies six tourists, including space’s 750th traveler, on 13th crewed New Shepard mission

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