Orbital Operations (Orbital Operations) is developing a high thrust... (>5000 lbf), reusable space vehicle that will be stationed in orbit to rapidly defend against threats to high-value satellites.show more

🇨🇳 China has launched nine computing satellites into orbit.... A Kinetica-1 rocket from CAS Space launched from the Jiuquan launch site and placed several satellites, including the Chaozhisuan-1, into a sun-synchronous orbit. This satellite serves as a technology demonstrator for a future orbital computing constellation. The satellite is equipped with powerful computing resources and laser communication capabilities. It will be able to process data directly in orbit, receive "raw" data from other satellites, and transmit the results to Earth.show more

FYI: This footage comes from one of the Starlink... V3 satellites Starship deployed to orbit. The satellite turned back to film the Starship that carried it up. It is one of the first 26 V3 satellites released on Starship's first orbital flight. A satellite filming its own ride to space. Source: Starlinkshow more

India gets new eyes on orbit. 🇮🇳 Introducing MOSAIC,... our AI-powered Wide Area Sensing Architecture, built to search, detect and track hundreds of objects simultaneously, turning observations into orbital intelligence. Mobile. Autonomous. Built in India for the scale of modern space operations. Happy Independence Day!show more

🚨 BIG: 🇮🇳 India to soon join the global... race for SpaceX-like reusable rockets Chennai-based space startup Agnikul Cosmos has announced Mission-02, a bold plan to attempt India's first recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster by a private company. The mission aims to safely recover the booster for refurbishment and reuse, while repurposing the upper stage into a functional in-orbit platform instead of letting it become debris. This is a major step toward reusable launch vehicles that can significantly reduce costs and make satellite launches more affordable and sustainable. Agnikul is already a leader in 3D-printed rocket engines that can be produced rapidly. It is now advancing reusability technologies, backed by multiple patents from 🇮🇳 India, the 🇺🇸 US, and 🇪🇺 Europe. With support from ISRO and IN-SPACe, this progress highlights the rapid growth of India's private space sector. Alongside recent private orbital launches like Skyroot’s Vikram-1, the country is building strong self-reliance in space technology. A proud leap forward for Made in India innovation. 🇮🇳show more

STARLINK IS RUNNING EARTH’S LARGEST SERVER… IN ORBIT While... everyone else is bragging about data centers on the ground, SpaceX quietly put 9,000 solar-powered computers in space and called it a constellation! Orbital Math: •⁠ ⁠Starlink sits at over 9,000+ active satellites after the latest batch •⁠ ⁠The entire rest of Earth manages roughly 3,000 to 4,000 combined •⁠ ⁠Each Starlink unit is a solar-powered network node with onboard compute •⁠ ⁠SpaceX now operates around 75 % of all active satellites in orbit At this rate Earth’s “space industry” is basically Starlink plus supporting characters! Source: Grokshow more

🚨 BREAKING: Starcloud just turned Starlink’s laser network into... the backbone for orbital AI data centers. A company called Starcloud has ordered 50+ Starlink Mini Laser terminals to equip 25+ future satellites. Not ground stations. Not fiber cables. Direct laser-linked computing nodes in orbit plugged straight into SpaceX’s space-based optical mesh. This is the sci-fi future arriving now: Orbital cloud computing AI servers floating in space Powered by 24/7 sunlight Connected globally at light speed via Starlink lasers The insane part: Starcloud says its satellites will eventually handle full AI inference and training workloads directly in orbit. Data won’t always need to come back to Earth to be processed. The advantages are massive: • Unlimited solar energy (no grid limits) • Zero land or water constraints • Passive radiative cooling in vacuum • Instant global relay with zero terrestrial bottlenecks • Near real-time Earth observation analysis Their first major spacecraft (Starcloud-3) is designed for 200 kilowatts in orbit a full-on space-based data center node, not just a satellite. And here’s the bigger picture: SpaceX has filed plans for up to ONE MILLION orbital data centers of its own. Read that again. We may be watching the birth of the first true space-based computing infrastructure layer for civilization. The internet already left the ground. Now AI might be next. What happens when the cloud literally moves into space? Follow for more frontier physics and future technology.show more

🚨 SPACEX IS ABOUT TO TEST A RADICALLY DIFFERENT... KIND OF SPACECRAFT AND IT COULD UPEND THE ENTIRE ORBITAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. On Tuesday, SpaceX plans to fly the first prototype of Starfall, a flat, disk-shaped reentry capsule designed to return up to 1,000 kilograms of cargo from orbit in a single flight. That’s roughly 30 times more payload capacity than current commercial return vehicles (like those from Varda Space Industries). It’s not a scaled-down Dragon it’s a completely different approach: no onboard deorbit engine, a wide flat disk geometry, and Starlink terminals mounted to maintain communication through the plasma blackout during reentry. Why this matters: • Current orbital manufacturing companies are limited to returning only dozens of kilograms per mission • Starfall’s design could make large-scale commercial production in space economically viable for the first time • SpaceX would be directly competing with companies (like Varda) that currently pay SpaceX to launch their capsules • Successfully testing Starlink through reentry plasma would be a major technical win with applications across SpaceX’s vehicles The deeper implication: SpaceX is quietly expanding its vertical integration. They already dominate launch. Now they’re moving into the return leg of the orbital manufacturing supply chain the part that has been the biggest bottleneck for companies trying to make products in microgravity and bring them back to Earth. If Starfall works at scale, it doesn’t just give SpaceX another revenue stream. It gives them significant control over the economics of an entire emerging industry. The disk shape and high-capacity design suggest they’re thinking about high-cadence, lower-cost returns rather than the traditional high-value, low-volume approach. This is classic SpaceX: take an existing problem (expensive, low-capacity return from orbit), apply first-principles thinking to the vehicle design, and try to make it dramatically cheaper and higher volume. How do you think this move into orbital return changes the competitive landscape for companies trying to build businesses in space manufacturing? Follow for more analysis on SpaceX’s expanding role across the space economy.show more

Spacecraft could become reusable too! The Exploration Company is... developing Nyx, a reusable spacecraft that carries cargo to space stations and returns safely to Earth. It can launch, dock, re-enter, and be reused for future missions. 📍 Innovation Gallery at VivaTech 2026show more

🚨 BIG: 🇮🇳 India is entering the race for... SpaceX-style reusable rockets. Chennai-based 🚀 Agnikul Cosmos has announced Mission-02 — aiming to attempt India’s first private recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster. The goal: Recover → Refurbish → Reuse. The upper stage could also be repurposed as an in-orbit platform instead of becoming space debris. With 3D-printed rocket engines, patents across 🇮🇳🇺🇸🇪🇺, and support from ISRO & IN-SPACe, India’s private space sector is moving fast. Alongside Skyroot’s Vikram-1, India is building a powerful Made in India space ecosystem. 🇮🇳🚀show more

The Chinese Space Station will have 3 orbital conjunctions... with the ISS this weekend. It will be a historic first photo opportunity. Here is a video of one conjunction over Africa. At the right solar angles, visibility may be favorable. But they will have to snap fast!show more

seeing the earth from space is absolutely life changing.... my mission, Inspiration4, was the first all-civilian orbital space mission. it was a new beginning — opening up space exploration to more and more people. I hope that you all will be able to experience these views for yourself someday, but if you prefer staying on Earth, please enjoy my videos 🚀show more

Here’s how Starlink next‑generation V3’s laser network works in... space Each Starlink V3 satellite is equipped with six high-capacity space lasers capable of operating at up to 400 Gbps These laser links connect satellites directly to one another, creating a fast, high-bandwidth and resilient mesh network in orbit that can route massive amounts of data around the planet without relying entirely on nearby ground stations That means more network capacity, faster data routing, greater reliability and stronger connectivity across remote and hard-to-reach regions Starlink V3 is not just a more powerful satellite It is a major upgrade to the internet infrastructure being built in spaceshow more

🇺🇸 SpaceX nails another launch, this time taking AST... SpaceMobile's BlueBird 11-13 mission to orbit SpaceMobile is developing a space-based cellular broadband network for mobile phones Yep, you read that right, SpaceX is once again launching satellites for its competitors; that's how far ahead in the game Elon is Writer: Ianshow more

Now this next tech is just WOW. It’s so... mind blowing that even Elon Musk would be impressed… Israel is building something straight out of science fiction. Israeli startup, Moonshot Space, is developing a ground-based electromagnetic launch system, essentially a massive coilgun/rail launcher that will accelerate spacecraft to hypersonic speeds without traditional chemical rockets. The system uses synchronized electromagnetic waves to propel hardened capsules up to 8 km per second (Mach 23+). They’ve already tested lower-speed versions and are pushing toward full orbital capability. This could slash launch costs dramatically and make frequent, affordable access to space a reality. From the Israeli desert to orbit at hypersonic speed, Startup Nation isn’t just joining the space race. We’re changing how it’s played. Proud every single day. 🇮🇱 #StartupNation #IsraeliInnovation #SpaceTech #MoonshotSpaceshow more

T-52 hours! This Thursday, NordSpace goes orbital for the... first time. Terra Nova, NordSpace's first pathfinder satellite, is launching aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 from Vandenberg Space Force Base. We designed, built and tested it in our Space Systems Lab (SSL), including thermal, vacuum and vibration testing all in-house. Terra Nova is also built to retire substantial mission, business and technical risk for our launch systems division. We're building Tundra and Tempest, Canada's light and medium-lift commercial orbital launch vehicles, along with the Atlantic Spaceport Complex. As Canada's only vertically integrated space missions company and a company committed to high cadence operations, Terra Nova brings us one giant leap closer to operating every phase of a space mission. From design and manufacturing through launch, on-orbit operations and data services. That's what sovereign, end-to-end space capability for Canada looks like, and we are just getting started. Terra Nova is a self-funded, dual-use defence and commercial demonstration mission. It will test capabilities from Space Domain Awareness to wildfire and arctic monitoring using artificial intelligence at the edge. Work meant to protect Canadian sovereignty and save lives. On board are four technologies we built ourselves: 🔹 Athena, our scalable spacecraft bus 🔹 Zephyr-EP, our electric propulsion thruster 🔹 Chronos, our edge-AI camera system running on an onboard NVIDIA GPU 🔹 Sentinel, our mission control platform, which will run every NordSpace mission, including launch Terra Nova is just one of several spacecraft missions we have planned. We will soon be announcing our full-scale Athena and Aquila spacecraft buses, built for rapid deployment of constellations and hosted payloads. National Defence Defence Research and Development Canada Canadian Space Agency ISED Space Canada | Espace Canadashow more