Payload
Viasat's HaloNet Launch Telemetry Data Relay Service (DRS) aims to end minutes‑long telemetry "blackouts" by providing continuous, global telemetry coverage from ascent through early orbit. The service promises uninterrupted vehicle health, performance and safety data during the most critical launch phases.
Payload
• Mark Boggett
By Payload: 2026 has a chance to become an inflection point where commercial expansion, AI integration, and sovereign partnerships could redefine space.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: NASA expects to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as soon as September, seeing it as evidence the agency can do flagships on cost and schedule.
Space.com
• Robert Lea
By Space.com: "Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this.".
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Keysight Technologies reported demonstrating a new radio non-terrestrial networks (NR-NTN) connection in band n252 using Samsung Electronics' next-generation modem chipset.
SpaceNews.com
• Catalyst Campus
By SpaceNews.com: APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR COHORT 4 OF SDA TAP LAB – CATALYST CAMPUS MINI ACCELERATOR.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: The collaboration adds OQ’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to Monogoto’s IoT connectivity management ecosystem.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Hubble Network, the startup working to build a Bluetooth network via satellite, is working with Texas Instruments (TI) to integrate its network into TI Bluetooth chips.
NASA Spaceflight
• Bastiaan Vellekoop
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
