Rocket Lab is ramping up for their third launch this year and the 45th Electron launch overall. The ‘Owl Night Long’ mission is scheduled to launch from Pad B at Launch […]
Archives for March 2024
Sateloit’s 4 satellites will connect 7 million IoT devices, anticipating $1 Billion revenue by 2030
Sateliot is launching four new satellites. Sateliot, the first company to operate a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) 5G IoT satellite constellation acting as a seamless roaming extension of cellular networks, will […]
SpaceX’s Dragon successfully departs the ISS to return NASA’s Crew-7 astronauts back to Earth
Monday, March 11 at 11:20 a.m. ET SpaceX and NASA witnessed the Dragon autonomously undocked from the International Space Station. After performing a series of departure burns to move away […]
EarthCARE goes west for launch as ESA’s most complex Earth Explorer mission
The Airbus-built EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Aerosols and Radiation Explorer) spacecraft has left Munich, Germany, and is now on its way aboard an aircraft to its launch site in Vandenberg, California. […]
Thales Alenia Space contracts with Italian Space Agency to develop communications system for International Mars Ice Mapper mission
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), signed a contract with the Italian space agency (ASI) to develop the communications subsystem for the innovative International […]
NASA awards flight + payload integration servides contracts
NASA has selected 15 companies to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in space, including testing in high-altitude, reduced gravity, or other relevant […]
General Atomics to provide missile tracking payloads for Lockheed Martin’s SDA Tranche 2 Tracking Layer contract
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin Space to deliver missile warning, tracking and defense payloads to support the company’s recently announced contract award to deliver […]
Stratolaunch celebrates 1st powered flight of TA-1 test vehicle
Stratolaunch, LLC has successfully completed the first powered flight of the Talon-A test vehicle, TA-1 — this first flight represents a major milestone in the development of the country’s first privately […]
Ovzon receives order to expand European SATCOM-as-a-Service
Ovzon has received an 12-month order that represents a significant expansion of the company’s integrated SATCOM-as-a-Service offering in Europe. This order includes a high-powered Ovzon spot beam powered network and […]
SpaceX’s successful second launch of the day this one from Vandenberg Base, California
On Sunday, March 10 at 9:09 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in […]