The Orbital Report

SES wins U.S. Space Force contract; analyst asks if stock valuation still presents opportunity.

NASA seeks commercial LEO stations to succeed ISS, with proposals due Dec 8 and awards spring 2027.

York Space Systems wins Space Force contract to host Tetra missions on GEO spacecraft.

OpticalTel wins landmark US Space Force contract, largest in company's 25-year history.

Exolaunch secures first Starfall reentry mission on Starship for 2029 biotech and manufacturing payloads.

SpaceX to phase out Falcon 9 in favor of Starship for deep space and heavy-lift missions.

Voyager Tech secures Space Force crosslink contract for enhanced military satellite communications.

Billion-dollar reusable rocket redesigns promise to transform launch economics and orbital sustainability.

Space Force budgets $17B more for launches amid surging orbital demand and constellation growth.

Stoke Space raises $1B, targets 2025 debut with reusable Nova rocket; larger 15-ton variant in development.

Quantum imaging startup Diffraqtion raises $5M+ more; plans orbital demo for space debris tracking cameras.

ESA funds three European launch startups with €543M+ to strengthen Europe's independent access to space.

SpaceX to build $100B Louisiana spaceport for thousands of annual Starship launches by 2029.

SpaceX reveals $100B Louisiana spaceport plan to expand Starship launch capability.

York Space Systems wins new Space Force contract after delivering 42 satellites.

Saudi Arabia targets $31.6bn space economy by 2035, quadrupling current market size.

Rocket Lab joins USSF consortium, lands $12M in satellite contracts.

SpaceWERX awards $562.5M to 11 space startups via STRATFI, bridging prototype-to-scale funding gap.

Elve qualifies millimeter-wave amplifiers for space, enabling high-bandwidth satellite communications at scale.

AnySignal secures Space Force contract for next-generation on-orbit communications technology.