SCRUBBED after ULA seated NASA’s Wilmore and Williams in Starliner ‘room with a view’
Pilot ingress. Now boarding Starliner is CFT mission pilot Suni Williams, a retired U.S. Navy captain and veteran of two previous spaceflights as a long-duration resident aboard the space station. Williams is from Needham, Massachusetts, and earned a physical science ...
SpaceX’s reliable twosome — one launch of 23 Starlink smallsats and another tomorrow
Photo captured on Monday, May 6, by Satnews from SpaceX video stream. A perfect Florida day on Monday, May 6, with the sun high, clear skies, and ocean waves rolling up on the beach as Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink ...
SpaceX launches Maxar’s WorldView mission from California, and another SpaceX Starlink to launch from Florida hours later
Photo captured by Satnews from SpaceX video stream. On Thursday, May 2 at 11:36 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the Maxar 1 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The ...
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Agile Space Industries to provide propulsion capability for True Anomaly’s space operations
Photo of Agile Space Industries' M4 thruster, courtesy of the company. Agile Space Industries will be providing advanced propulsion technology for a variant of True Anomaly’s Jackal autonomous orbital vehicle (AOV). Photo of the True Anomaly Jackal vehicle with an ...
SpaceX busy with another two in two days of Starlink smallsats launches
Photo captured by Satnews from previous SpaceX video stream. SpaceX is targeting Monday, May 6 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...
NASA’s Wilmore and Williams ready for ‘a room with a view’ as ULA counts down to Starliner launch
The official crew portrait celebrates the astronauts of the CFT mission. Photo by NASA Everything continues to progress towards the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the first crewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The mission is ...
Sierra Space prepares for the 7th validation + 2nd structural tests of the firm’s space platform
Second Full-Scale Structural Test Scheduled for June at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, image courtesy of the company. Sierra Space has announced the company's expandable space station technology is scheduled for he seventh key validation test,and second full-scale structural test ...
ParaZero integrates the firm’s safety tech into Draganfly’s Commander 3XL Drones for home hospital delivery + emergency response
ParaZero Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: PRZO) is integrating their advanced safety technology into Draganfly’s Commander 3XL drones — this enhancement is set to significantly boost the safety and reliability of UAVs in crucial applications and emergency operations. By incorporating ParaZero’s state-of-the-art ...
OQ Technology + Transatel collaborate for global satellite 5G IoT connectivity
In collaboration with OQ Technology (the world's fastest-growing 5G NTN IoT LEO satellite operator), Transatel will offer a converged mobile satellite connectivity service, providing global IoT network coverage. Transatel offers global 5G roaming, enabling Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) solutions deployment worldwide. This collaboration ...
Space-made fibers + novel biotech among research returning to Earth
Research on a novel vision loss therapy and space-manufactured optical fibers were among the nearly 565 pounds of science and technology payloads sponsored by the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory that splashed down off the Florida coast as NASA ...
Descartes Labs Government accelerates mission-ready solutions with EarthDaily constellation EO data
Descartes Labs and its subsidiary, Descartes Labs Government, has selected EarthDaily Analytics as a supplier for their EO data to power their geospatial analytics and AI solutions. EarthDaily’s Constellation will unlock a continuous stream of scientific-quality and analytics-ready data providing an ...
HyImpulse launches their 1st commercially viable launch vehicle
Photo of the SR75 test launch is courtesy of HyImpulse. HyImpulse, a German manufacturer and system provider of commercial launch vehicles for satellite transport, successfully test-launched their 12 meter long and 2.5 ton single-stage rocket "SR75" that can transport smallsats ...
ULA launch is imminent as first crewed Boeing Starliner mission readies for ISS
ULA's L-2 report states that everything continues to progress towards the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the first crewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The mission is planned to lift off on Monday, May 6 from ...