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Sounding rocket: OculloSpace flies AZAD to 10 km
Singapore’s OculloSpace has flown its first sounding rocket, AZAD “The Dreamer”, to 10 km from a spaceport in Oman. We look at the achievement — and at why 10 km is a first step, not space.
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Space Laser Communication: Astrogate–Spacebeam MoU
An Indian terminal maker and a Korean ground-station operator have signed an MoU to demonstrate an end-to-end space laser link. We explain how optical links work, what each side brings, and the service-model question the announcement leaves open.
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Orbital Computing: India’s TakeMe2Space Flies an AI Lab on SpaceX, Alongside Google’s Moonshot
A 14 kg Indian CubeSat with 117 TOPS of onboard AI compute is launching on the same SpaceX rideshare as Google’s Project Suncatcher prototype. The smallest and largest bets on orbital computing fly together.
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Trimble Terasat Japan VRS Acquisition: Centimeter-Level Positioning Goes Global
Trimble acquired Terasat Japan to extend its VRS Now correction service to Japan’s 1,300-station GSI CORS network. But the press release omits acquisition price, Terasat’s revenue, GSI data access terms, and how Trimble plans to compete against Topcon on its home turf. Here’s what it doesn’t say.
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Astrogate Labs OISL: India’s Laser Bet on Satellite-to-Satellite Communication
Astrogate Labs, a 26-person Bengaluru startup with $1.3M in funding, is building India’s first indigenous optical inter-satellite link terminal, targeting 2027 flight readiness. The company has already delivered a space-to-ground lasercomm terminal to ISRO. But QOSMIC also claims “first” OISL, SpaceX has 13,000+ laser links in orbit, and Mynaric — with 480 employees and $120M…
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches to Rewrite How We See the Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, beginning a mission that could transform our understanding of dark energy, dark matter, exoplanets and the evolution of the universe.