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Europe’s €22bn space reset: from peaceful science to dual-use constellations

ESA’s record budget and new “European Resilience from Space” programme mark a quiet but profound shift in how Europe thinks…

3 months ago

From boutique to factory: how France’s U-Space became the test case for Europe’s new space industrial base

On the same week that Emmanuel Macron promised billions more for military space, a relatively small manufacturer in Toulouse raised…

4 months ago

Europe’s sovereign leap to phone-from-space

Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile put a European flag on direct-to-device—and pick Germany for the command center SAN FRANCISCO — November…

4 months ago

stc prepays $175m for space-to-phone: a decade-long bet on AST SpaceMobile

On October 29, 2025 (PT), Saudi Arabia’s stc group signed a decade-long commercial agreement with AST SpaceMobile that includes a…

4 months ago

Europe just built a space “prime.” The moat is standards, not scale

Europe has finally done what many in the industry said was inevitable. On Thursday, October 23 (Pacific), Airbus, Thales and…

5 months ago

HyImpulse’s €45m bet on hybrid rockets — can Europe’s “taxi to orbit” fix the small-launch gap?

The German launcher has fresh capital, a clear pitch, and a technology bet that’s different from its peers. The question…

5 months ago

NASA’s double bet on Momentus: an orbital factory and a new engine

Two NASA contracts in three days put a small platform provider at the heart of two big ideas: in-space manufacturing…

5 months ago

A startup to the rescue: NASA’s $30m bet that saving Swift will change the rules

On 24 September, NASA awarded Flagstaff-based Katalyst Space Technologies a $30 million contract to rendezvous with, capture and push the…

5 months ago

NATO’s €1bn fund just backed “air-breathing” satellites. Here’s why Very-Low Earth Orbit may become Europe’s next sovereignty bet

Spain’s Kreios Space has raised €8 million led by the NATO Innovation Fund—its first deal in Spain—to commercialise an “air-breathing”…

6 months ago

Japan’s Astroscale picks India’s PSLV for 2027 debris-inspection launch — and signals a new Asian supply chain for space safety

A Tokyo startup choosing an Indian rocket for a sensitive rendezvous-and-inspection mission says as much about cost and cadence as…

6 months ago

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