2026 04 News

05 Apr 2026

• NASA stops work on SLS Mobile Launcher 2
• NASA finalizes science plans for Artemis 2 lunar flyby

04 Apr 2026

• Atlas 5 launches Amazon Leo satellites
• Space Force budget would more than double in Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense plan

03 Apr 2026

• Italy’s Argotec plans to scale Florida satellite facility to meet rising US demand
• White House again proposes steep NASA budget cuts
• SpaceX and Amazon spar over satellite deployments
• China’s commercial Tianlong-3 rocket fails on debut launch

02 Apr 2026

• Former Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice to lead Astrion
• Optical terminals still a bottleneck in Pentagon’s proliferated constellation
• Pentagon awards Raytheon $45 million for GPS ground system as program future is reassessed
• Phantom Space buys thermal specialist to support orbital data center push
• Relativity, Hermeus, Astrion and Divergent executives join Fortastra C-suite
• Artemis 2 crew blasts off on historic moon mission
• Amazon is trying to buy Globalstar to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink
• SpaceX tries to convince FCC that Amazon put satellites into wrong altitude
• Why is NASA bothering to go back to the Moon if we’ve already been there?

01 Apr 2026

• SpaceX quietly files for big bang IPO
• Teledyne forms dedicated space unit to capture rising demand
• Artemis 2’s (nearly) 10-day flight around the moon
• Saltzman: Space ‘baked into’ modern combat operations
• Aspect Aerospace secures early funding to advance swarm-deployable VLEO satellites
• Artemis 2 fueling underway
• After three years, Artemis 2 astronauts ready to launch
• Vantor wins intelligence agency contract to monitor space objects
• Chinese startup tests flexible robotic arm in space for on-orbit servicing
• Live coverage: NASA to launch Artemis 2, its first Moon-bound mission with astronauts since 1972
• Launch day has arrived for NASA’s Artemis II mission—here’s what to expect
• SpaceX finally files for IPO, targets $1.75 trillion valuation