The U.S. Space Force has awarded the majority of its 2026 national security missions to SpaceX. The company has secured a $714 million contract for five launches, while rival United Launch Alliance (ULA) won two missions worth $428 million.
This move further strengthens SpaceX’s position in the Pentagon’s most complex spaceflight programme. Under the contract, the company will launch Boeing’s 12th Wideband Global Satcom satellite, three classified payloads for the Space Force, and carry out the NROL-86 reconnaissance mission.
ULA’s assigned missions include the USSF-88, carrying a GPS III Follow-on satellite, and the NROL-88 spy payload.
Blue Origin, which has yet to certify its New Glenn rocket, was once again left out of the programme. The Space Systems Command has stated that the company is unlikely to carry out its first national security launch until fiscal 2027. NASA’s Mars mission this autumn is expected to play a key role in advancing Blue Origin’s certification.
The Phase 3, Lane 2 segment of the National Security Space Launch programme covers roughly 54 missions between 2025 and 2029, with a total value of $13.7 billion. Actual launches are scheduled from 2027 to 2032, giving companies ample time to integrate and prepare payloads.
Two tourists have died in an accident on Vilyuchinsky Volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. According to regional authorities, the incident occur...
The U.S. Space Force has awarded the majority of its 2026 national security missions to SpaceX. The company has secured a $714 million contract for fi...
Andrej Babis’s ANO party won the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election on Saturday with 34.7% of the vote, prompting coalition talks as it fell ...
Preliminary results from Georgia’s Central Election Commission show the ruling Georgian Dream party leading in the 4 October municipal elections, in...
Egypt has reopened the tomb of New Kingdom Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the Valley of the Kings, marking the end of a 20-year international restoration ef...
Two tourists have died in an accident on Vilyuchinsky Volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. According to regional authorities, the incident occurred during an unregistered climb, with one man pronounced dead at the scene and a woman later succumbing to her severe injuries.
Andrej Babis’s ANO party won the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election on Saturday with 34.7% of the vote, prompting coalition talks as it fell short of a majority.
Egypt has reopened the tomb of New Kingdom Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the Valley of the Kings, marking the end of a 20-year international restoration effort.
Czech businessman and politician Andrej Babiš's populist ANO party took a wide early lead in the country's parliamentary election on Saturday, according to partial results after 10% of voting districts had been counted.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has called on the European Union’s (EU) ambassador to the country to distance themselves from the recent events on the streets of Tbilisi and to condemn them unequivocally.
According to data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), between 2020 and 2024, Türkiye’s exports to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan totalled $36.6 billion, while imports from these countries reached $26 billion.
Preliminary results from Georgia’s Central Election Commission show the ruling Georgian Dream party leading in the 4 October municipal elections, including in the Tbilisi mayoral race.
Egypt has reopened the tomb of New Kingdom Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the Valley of the Kings, marking the end of a 20-year international restoration effort.
Kazakhstan Energy Week underlined that doubling energy efficiency gains could cut global CO₂ emissions by half by 2040, with officials calling efficiency the cornerstone of a pragmatic and balanced energy transition.
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