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SpaceX's Starlink team successfully established contact with all 20 V3 satellites after deployment, marking a step forward in expanding the satellite internet constellation.

NOAA's GOES-19 weather satellite has entered a safe hold mode, as reported by the Space Weather Prediction Center.

The FCC has cleared Reflect Orbital to launch its first space mirror satellite, Eärendil-1, which will reflect sunlight to Earth at night despite strong opposition from astronomers concerned about light pollution.

The FCC has approved testing of a space mirror intended to light the night sky, despite public outcry.

A team led by Ignazio Ciufolini used the LARES-2 satellite to measure Earth's frame dragging effect with unprecedented precision (0.2% uncertainty), providing the most accurate test yet of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Rocket Report covers recent space launch developments, including panic over Transporter availability, Isar's Canadian launch plans, RFA's August launch date, final Pegasus rocket mission, and upcoming debuts of Long March 10B and Skyroot's Vikram-1.

City Labs launched BOHR, the first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, using a betavoltaic battery powered by tritium decay. The mission demonstrates a compact, regulatory-approved nuclear power system for space, enabling persistent power independent of sunlight.

Astranis showcases the precision machining of a 5lb aluminum block into flight hardware for satellites using advanced 5-axis CNC techniques on a DMG Mori DMU 40.

65 years ago, the US Navy's Transit-4A became the first satellite to use nuclear power in orbit with a tiny RTG. Today, modern RTGs like those from Zeno Power can scale output using nuclear waste.

A think tank workshop simulated space warfare scenarios to explore how US and allied commanders might respond to potential attacks on military satellites, considering diplomatic versus military reactions.

SpaceX is set to launch the Falcon 9 carrying the SXM-11 mission for SiriusXM from Florida at 10:25 p.m. ET, with a webcast starting 10 minutes before liftoff.

Sawyer Merritt highlights SpaceX's 'star' initiatives: Starfall for microgravity research and manufacturing, Stargaze for orbital tracking, and Starshield for secure satellite networks.

A developer built a 6-agent AI system for satellite collision avoidance in 4 days for a hackathon, sharing lessons learned.

Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite runs Google's Gemma 3 vision-language model onboard for real-time image analysis, reducing downlink bandwidth and latency by deciding what data to send to Earth.

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies are attempting an unprecedented rapid satellite rescue mission to boost the aging Swift observatory's orbit, preventing its loss due to atmospheric drag. The mission was conceived and developed in under a year with a $30 million contract.

NAVI-Orbital demonstrates the first in-orbit deployment of a zero-shot vision-language model (Gemma 3) on a LEO satellite, enabling autonomous scene classification and semantic compression of Earth observation data without fine-tuning.

A satellite called Yam-9 used Google DeepMind's Gemma 3 vision-language model in orbit to autonomously identify areas of interest based on natural language queries, marking the first reported use of a VLM in space and signaling a shift toward more autonomous satellite operations.

Elon Musk announces SpaceX AI satellites, likely referring to Starlink or new satellite capabilities with integrated AI.

SpaceX has unveiled its first satellite design incorporating artificial intelligence, marking a step in AI-enhanced space technology.

SpaceX confirms successful satellite deployment.