Elon Musk said on October 3 that early talks with TSMC about joining Terafab are “just discussions, but something may come of it.” Terafab is the chip plant Tesla and SpaceX are developing together.

MEASAT-3 is a Malaysian communications satellite parked in geostationary orbit, operated by MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd out of Kuala Lumpur. It launched on December 11, 2006, from the Tyuratam ...

Which country has the most satellites? It’s not close. Of the 19,447 payloads in Earth orbit as of July 2026, per KeepTrack’s catalog, 13,276 belong to the United States. That’s 68 percent of ...

HawkEye 360 released a whitepaper today on a demonstration funded by a ~$1.2M AFRL Phase II SBIR awarded in 2024. The test checked whether its RF-sensing satellites, which normally watch terrestrial ...

COSMOS 1925 is a Soviet military communications satellite launched on March 11, 1988, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome aboard a Kosmos 11K65M rocket. It was one of dozens of Strela-1M relay satellites ...

The FAA issued the launch license for Starship Flight 14 late Saturday, clearing SpaceX to attempt the vehicle’s first orbital flight on Monday, September 28. Liftoff from Starbase Pad 2 is targeted ...

SpaceX completed the wet dress rehearsal for Starship Flight 14 on September 24, clearing the final major technical hurdle before the vehicle’s first orbital attempt. The launch window opens Monday, ...

Starlink opened a new revenue channel this week with the launch of its Communities Program, a beta that lets property owners share a single Starlink dish with nearby users who buy hourly, daily, ...

Launch data: GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), used under CC BY 4.0.

Every orbital and deep-space launch attempt of 1960, successes and failures alike, drawn from the GCAT launch catalog. Data current as of 2026-10-10. 1960 saw 38 orbital and deep-space launch attempts ...

The catalog lists 19 objects built on the PocketQube 3P bus. 4 are in orbit and 15 have reentered. How many PocketQube 3P satellites are in orbit? 4 PocketQube 3P objects are currently in orbit, of ...

Flock is Planet Labs' fleet of Dove cubesats that image the entire landmass of Earth every day at medium resolution. Successive Flock generations have made it one of the most numerous ...