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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