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  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Space industry
    Europe signs €10.6bn Iris² satellite deal in bid to rival Musk’s Starlink

    Communications network is EU’s most ambitious space project in a decade

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  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Brazil
    Chinese satellite company to challenge Musk’s Starlink in Brazil

    Billionaire Trump ally had clashed with Brasília this year over alleged misinformation on X

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  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
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  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
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    Aerospace groups are in talks over tie-up offering satellite manufacturing and space systems

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  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
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    Elon Musk, second from left, at a ceremony to launch Starlink service on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali in May 2024
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
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  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
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    The satellite spectrum battle that could shape the new space economy

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX is pushing to loosen power limits on transmissions in low Earth orbit, a move that some fear could give upstart US operators more power

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  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
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    Eutelsat explores partnerships to fund Europe’s space-based network

    Chief executive says new partners needed if EU constellation project fails to reach agreement

    OneWeb satellite
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Airbus and Thales explore space tie-up

    Extensive satellite use in Ukraine conflict underlines sector’s strategic importance

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  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
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    Ariane 6 rocket must pass multiple carefully orchestrated milestones before lifting off on its first flight on Tuesday

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  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
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    Bharti Airtel’s joint venture with Eutelsat OneWeb could start operating in June

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral., Florida, in December 2023
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
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    Companies turn to space to tackle emissions on Earth

    Green regulations are creating a bonanza for the satellite data sector

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  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    Intelsat SA
    Satellite group SES to acquire Intelsat in $3.1bn deal

    Merger marks last major consolidation in industry as operators look to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink

    Intelsat 34 satellite
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    The eyes in the sky fighting climate change, one methane leak at a time

    Canadian satellite operator GHGSat is proving the power of its technology

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  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
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  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Climate change
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    Tech group’s AI tools will assist project to track oil and gas infrastructure

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  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    InterviewSpace exploration
    UN space tsar calls for increase in junk clean-up efforts

    Official says implementing voluntary guidelines more important than new global treaty

    Aarti Holla-Maini and planet earth surrounded by space debris
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Business InsightPeggy Hollinger
    The new star wars over satellites

    A contest between legacy and new operators is brewing over the use of spectrum

    The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off on a mission carrying satellites
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    South Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korea shoots for the stars in Asia’s space race

    Seoul has big ambitions for independent launches and a GPS-like satellite network

    People in Seoul watch a television screen showing live footage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching with South Korea’s first lunar orbiter Danuri
  • Monday, 23 October, 2023
    Airbus signs up Northrop Grumman in bid for SkyNet military satellite contract

    Programme is expected to be one of the most hotly contested procurement deals in the UK in years

  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Anjana Ahuja
    It’s up to governments to declutter space

    The Earth is encircled with decades-old litter. Who will take control?

    Andy Carter illustration of a man carrying the Earth globe away from cloud of flying space junk.
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Business InsightPeggy Hollinger
    Space needs a sustainable insurance industry

    Mishaps rise amid growing congestion of the thousands of satellites in low earth orbits

    A research and development satellite for the US Space Force is successfully launched into orbit by an Electron rocket
  • Monday, 7 August, 2023
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    Capital raising for space sector is easier in private markets, says controlling Fuchs family

    Employees assemble a weather satellite inside an OHB clean room in Bremen, Germany
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Space industry
    UK needs better space strategy as global race picks up, warn MPs

    Commons science committee calls for improved leadership from government and collaboration between regulators

    SaxaVord satellite launch pad in Shetlands
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Space-based lightning detector boosts forecasting of severe storms

    European satellite’s advanced technology aims to help protect communities from extreme weather

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