satellites

United Launch Alliance flew the last Atlas V 551 on July 2, ending the rocket's satellite-launching career; its six remaining vehicles are held for Boeing's Starliner as Amazon Leo pivots to Vulcan.

The Florida space-energy startup, founded less than two years ago, will use the oversubscribed round led by B Capital to fly the first-ever space-based optical power-beaming demonstration later this year.

Bengaluru-based GalaxEye flew Mission Drishti, a 190-kilogram OptoSAR satellite fusing radar and multispectral optics, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare from Vandenberg.

Data from the now-silent MethaneSAT satellite shows global oil and gas methane emissions far exceed inventories, prompting a U.S. Senate probe into Permian Basin operators.

New Glenn-3 will refly the booster that landed after delivering NASA's ESCAPADE Mars probes, deploying AST SpaceMobile's 2,400-square-foot BlueBird 7 direct-to-device satellite.

An FCC filing reveals Blue Origin's Project Sunrise constellation, which would place tens of thousands of computing satellites in sun-synchronous orbits to serve AI workloads.

SpaceX filed to launch up to one million solar-powered satellites for orbital AI computing, drawing skepticism from astronomers and feasibility questions from experts.