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04 Apr 2026
[edit]- Atlas 5 launches Amazon Leo satellites
- Space Force budget would more than double in Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense plan
03 Apr 2026
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
31 Mar 2026
[edit]- China targets 140 launches in 2026 amid commercial space surge
- Europe’s space sector faces power shift as funding grows
- Artemis 2 countdown underway
- After more than 53 years, humans may finally return to the Moon this week
- Starlink satellite breaks apart into “tens of objects”; SpaceX confirms “anomaly”
- This is my third Orion launch, but it feels totally different
30 Mar 2026
[edit]- Rocket Lab wins German approval for Mynaric deal
- Varda flies navigation payload, heat shield tests on sixth reentry mission
- ESA launches first Celeste satellites to test complementary LEO navigation layer
- SpaceX launches Transporter-16 rideshare mission
- China’s Kinetica-2 rocket debuts successfully, sending prototype cargo spacecraft to orbit
- Pentagon weighing termination of Raytheon GPS ground control contract after years of delays
- With Voyager’s help, Icarus Robotics to test free-flyer on ISS
- Starcloud achieves unicorn status with $170 million raise for orbital data centers
- Science finds a place on Artemis 2
- Live coverage: Falcon 9 booster to fly for record 34th time on Starlink delivery mission
- [https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/03/30/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-119-payloads-on-smallsat-rideshare-mission-from-california/ Live coverage: Falcon 9 booster to fly for record 34th time on Starlink delivery mission
SpaceX launches 119 payloads on smallsat rideshare mission from California]