MAY 4
1 ITEM
STMicroelectronics Forecasts 100 Million LEO Subscribers by 2028 as Space Chip Revenue Targets $3 Billion
STMicroelectronics held an investor conference call on May 4 in which Remi El-Ouazzane, President of the Microcontrollers, Digital ICs and RF Products Group, guided to over $3 b...
YAHOO
SpaceX
Starlink
Semiconductors
MAY 2
2 ITEMS
Blue Origin Targets 60 New Glenn Upper Stages a Year by 2028 Even as FAA Grounding Holds
Blue Origin posted job openings in late April 2026 signalling plans to ramp New Glenn upper stage production from 12 to 60 units per year by Q3 2028, with longer-term targets re...
ARSTECHNICA
Blue Origin
Launch
AST Spacemobile
Starcloud Pursues $200M Round at $2.2B Valuation, Doubling Within a Month of Series A
Starcloud is in talks to raise at least $200 million at a $2.2 billion post-money valuation, exactly double the $1.1 billion mark set by its Series A roughly one month earlier. ...
SPACENEWS
Orbital Data Centers
SpaceX
Starcloud
MAY 1
2 ITEMS
NASA Lifts CLPS Contract Ceiling to $4.2 Billion to Support Lunar Lander Surge
NASA plans to raise the maximum value of its Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme from $2.6 billion to $4.2 billion, per a procurement filing posted to SAM.gov on April 2...
SPACENEWS
Moon Base
NASA
CLPS
SpaceX Confidential IPO Filing Pegs Starship Programme Spend Above $15 Billion
SpaceX's confidential draft registration statement, reviewed by Reuters, contains the first public figure on Starship programme spend: more than $15 billion to date, against the...
REUTERS
IPO
SpaceX
Starship
APR 30
1 ITEM
FCC Replaces 26-Year-Old EPFD Framework With Performance-Based NGSO Rules
The FCC unanimously adopted Report and Order FCC 26-26 on April 30, replacing the legacy EPFD framework with performance-based GSO protection criteria. The Commission's own anal...
FCC
Regulatory
Spectrum
Starlink
APR 29
1 ITEM
Falcon Heavy Returns to Flight After 18-Month Gap with Viasat-3 F3 Deployment
SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy from Kennedy LC-39A at 10:13 a.m. EDT on April 29, deploying the 6-tonneViasat-3 F3 terabit-class communications satellite to geosynchronous trans...
SPACEFLIGHTNOW
Launch
SpaceX
Viasat
APR 28
2 ITEMS
SpaceX Discloses Trillion-Dollar Musk Pay Plan Tied to Mars Colony and 100 Terawatt Orbital Compute
SpaceX's confidential draft registration statement contains a performance-based compensation plan for Elon Musk, awarding up to 200 million super-voting Class B shares if the co...
BNNBLOOMBERG
IPO
Orbital Data Centers
SpaceX
Ariane 64 Lofts 32 Amazon Leo Satellites on Second Arianespace Mission for Amazon
Arianespace flew its second Ariane 64 in the four-booster configuration from French Guiana, deploying 32 Amazon Leo satellites on the LE-02 mission. The flight is the second of ...
ARIANESPACE
Amazon LEO
Arianespace
Launch
APR 27
1 ITEM
SpaceX Returns Falcon Heavy to Flight After 18-Month Gap with Final ViaSat-3 Satellite
SpaceX scrubbed its first Falcon Heavy launch in 18 months on Apr 27 due to weather and reset for an Apr 29 attempt from Kennedy Space Center carrying ViaSat-3 F3, the third and...
SPACE
Launch
SpaceX
Viasat
