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A framework agreement between Italy’s Leonardo and France’s Thales and Airbus for a new European space giant will require some weeks, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Monday. The parties are still considering some key points of the alliance and the boards of the three companies will need to discuss them, the source added.

One of Europe’s most prominent venture capitalists has warned that the continent is dangerously overdependent on SpaceX for both defense and space infrastructure, according to the Financial Times.

On November 4, 2025 at 6:03 p.m. local time (9:03 p.m. UTC, 10:03 p.m. CET), Arianespace will launch the Sentinel-1D satellite with Ariane 6 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

Magyarország és Izrael űripari együttműködést kötött Budapesten. A világűr békés kutatását célzó megállapodás új fejezetet nyit a két ország stratégiai kapcsolatában, és lehetőséget teremt arra, hogy Magyarország részesüljön az űripar gyorsan növekvő, 2035-re 1800 milliárd dollárosra becsült piacából.

US-based Earth observation data provider Planet has announced that it will open a new manufacturing facility in Germany, where it will produce its next-generation Pelican satellites.

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) have announced they will work together on peaceful uses of space, starting with space weather monitoring and sharing space communications facilities.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a colourful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud, the most massive and active star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.

Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from its centre.

After meticulous preparation and rigorous evaluation, ESA’s Member States have selected WIVERN to become the 11th Earth Explorer mission to be implemented through the agency’s prestigious FutureEO programme.

The European Space Agency has awarded Italian rocket builder Avio a €40 million contract to design a reusable rocket stage demonstrator.

There was a time in history when Portugal leveraged its strategic geographical location, on the edge of the European landmass and facing the vast expanses of the Atlantic Ocean, to become the launchpad for what came to be known as the Era of Exploration. Fast forward six centuries and Portugal is ready to play this geographical card once again, this time to participate in a new chapter of the space era.

Germany will invest €35 billion ($41 billion) in space-related defense projects by 2030, stepping up the country’s technological independence and ability to protect its assets in orbit amid an increasing militarization of outer space, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said.