Garrett Reim

3 weeks ago | aviationweek.com | Garrett Reim

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump launched broadsides against each other on social media and in public, escalating a fight over deficit spending in the “Big Beautiful Bill.” Long-festering differences between the former political allies burst out into the open on June 5 with Trump threatening on his social media website Truth Social “to terminate Elon’s governmental contracts and subsidies.” “In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government...

3 weeks ago | aviationweek.com | Garrett Reim

Launch of the robotic spacecraft is planned for 2026. Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics subsidiary has integrated twin robotic arms on its Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV), a spacecraft bus intended for servicing geosynchronous satellites SpaceLogistics is building the MRV for DAPRA’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program and plans to...

3 weeks ago | aviationweek.com | Garrett Reim

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract extension with Ispace-Europe, further funding the Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration (Magpie), a lunar exploration project. In December, Ispace was selected for a pre-phase A contract for the Magpie project and the...

3 weeks ago | aviationweek.com | Garrett Reim

South Korea’s Institute for Basic Science (IBS) plans to use a series of cubesats flying in low Earth orbit (LEO) over a 15-year span to study Venus’s atmosphere. The Institute for Basic Science selected Kongsberg NanoAvionics to build the first cubesat for the scientific program, which is planned...

4 weeks ago | aviationweek.com | Garrett Reim

EnduroSat of Sophia, Bulgaria, has raised €43 million ($48.8 million) from venture capital financiers to increase its satellite production to 60 per month by the end of 2025. In particular, the cash infusion will be used to increase production of the company’s new larger Endurance Gen3 satellites...