Every Other Satellite Startup Went Small. K2 Space Went Big and Just Raised $500M at a $6.8B Valuation
K2 Space closed a $500 million Series D led by ICONIQ Capital at a $6.8 billion valuation, betting against the…
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Blue Origin Finally Explained Why New Glenn Blew Up on the Pad. The Fix Is Smaller Than Feared
Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp identified a faulty oxygen valve on a BE-4 engine as the cause of the May…
Space Is Getting So Crowded That Satellites Are Now Dodging Debris 300,000 Times a Year
ESA says collision risk in low Earth orbit has jumped 20% since 2024, with Starlink alone performing roughly 300,000 collision-avoidance…
A SpaceX Rocket Stage Wandered for 18 Months, Then Hit the Moon at 5,400 MPH. Nobody Meant For That to Happen
A spent Falcon 9 upper stage from a January 2025 lunar lander launch drifted uncontrolled for 18 months before slamming…
China Is Racing Back to the Moon’s South Pole — With Six Countries’ Instruments Riding Along
China's Chang'e 7 lunar mission launches this August aiming to confirm water ice at the Moon's south pole — carrying…
A Chinese Rocket Launched Off Shandong. Its Debris Field Fell Over Cagayan’s Waters Hours Later
PhilSA and the Coast Guard warned Northern Luzon fishing communities ahead of China's August 5 Jielong-3 launch, and debris was…
NASA Just Moved Up Its Next Flagship Telescope by Eight Months — and Its Data Will Be Free to the World
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches August 30, 2026 — eight months ahead of schedule — and every byte…
The Philippines’ Most Advanced Satellite Is Fully Built and Sitting in a UK Test Chamber
MULA, the Philippines' most advanced Earth-observation satellite, is fully built and undergoing final space-environment testing in the UK — with…