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 MILESTONE for 🇮🇳 India's private space sector:... Skyroot targets July 18 for the launch of Vikram-1, India's first privately developed orbital rocket. Vikram-1 will become India's first privately developed orbital rocket to attempt placing payloads into orbit, marking a major milestone for India's private space sector.show more

The dots represent active satellites orbiting Earth, visualized using... tracked orbital information from space agencies.show more

SpaceX Starship completes its first orbital insertion burn and... is now in Earth orbit for the first time. It also deployed 26 V3 Starlink satellites. Pretty amazing view.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

According to Elon, Starship will evolve to V4, with... 9 Raptor engines on the upper stage. It’s expected to stand around 140m tall, 16m taller . And look at the timeline: SpaceX plans to begin testing orbital compute satellites in 2027, scale deployment in 2028, and build out the constellation in 2029, exactly when Starbase Louisiana starts to matter. Starship V4 will begin flight testing in 2027, alongside the first orbital compute satellites.show more

China achieved its first controlled recovery of an orbital-class... reusable rocket booster after the maiden launch of its Long March-10B carrier rocket, marking a major milestone in the country's reusable space technology. 📹Reutersshow more

KSP larpers finding out you need to learn orbital... mechanics in order to play a game based entirely around orbital mechanicsshow 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

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