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California commits $95 million to purchase of satellite methane data

$95M

Gravitics wins SpaceWERX award for tactically responsive space system

$60M Space Force contract

Airbus to Build ExoMars Landing Platform

Airbus will build the landing platform for ESA’s ExoMars / Rosalind Franklin rover

After a spacecraft was damaged en route to launch, NASA says it won’t launch

damaged in transit

Space Force OKs Vulcan rocket as SpaceX competitor for military launch

officially certified

Firefly Aerospace Selects Blue Origin’s Honeybee Robotics to Provide Rover for Lunar Mission to Gruithuisen Domes

selected Blue Origin-owned Honeybee Robotics

Chinese Bluetooth satellite startup raises early funding

raised somewhere between $3M and $13M

https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/Newsroom/Article/4137680/space-systems-command-on-ramps-two-new-providers-to-national-security-space-lau

awarded

China launches classified TJS-16 spacecraft, companion object emerges alongside earlier TJS-15 satellite

launched

Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end

sent the final commands

Microsoft Planetary Computer

Planetary Computer

Seattle, United States - Latest Satellite Images

Land Viewer

New Union3 + UNITY1.5 Cosmology Paper!

Union3

Google Earth Engine

Google Earth Engine

Earth on AWS

Earth on AWS

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250317584103/en/Albedos-Clarity-1-Satellite-Successfully-Launches-Establishes-First-Contact-and-Enters-VLEO-Specific-Protect-Mode

Albedo’s first VLEO satellite, Clarity-1

Varda Announces Third Mission Launch, the Company's Second Launch this Year

Varda launched its third orbital manufacturing mission

Muon Space

Muon Space, Earth Fire Alliance, and Google Research’s FireSat0 Protoflight

Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded?

Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded?

Inside Trump and Musk’s Takeover of NASA

Inside Trump and Musk’s Takeover of NASA

https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/history/csnr/corona/The%20CORONA%20Story.pdf

detailed PDF about the history of the Corona program

Satellite Constellations - NewSpace Index

interesting charts visualizing existing and planned satellite constellations

Terms and conditions - NewSpace Index

NewSpace.im

Satellogic's Open Satellite Feed

detailed instructions on how to explore and use the data