Rocket Lab’s New Zealand success deploys satellites to separate orbits 500km apart for KAIST and NASA
Following payload deployment to two separate orbits, Electron’s Kick Stage completed a final engine burn to lower its altitude and speed up its reentry to help reduce space junk. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) , a global leader in ...
SpaceX’s double success a Starlink smallsats launch and the 300th Falcon booster landing
Photo by Satnews captured from SpaceX video stream. On Tuesday, April 23 at 6:17 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites packed inside the fairing atop the 230-foot rocket to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at ...
SpaceX launches DoD’s next-generation operational environmental intelligence satellite
SpaceX launches USSF-62 mission Thursday. Photo by Satnews captured from SpaceX video stream On Thursday, April 11 at 7:25 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched the USSF-62 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space ...
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SpaceX weather at the Cape delays Monday’s Starlink smallsats 6-53 mission
SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, April 23 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 Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 6:17 p.m. ET, with ...
D-Orbit announces on-orbit edge computing collaboration with SkyServe STORM
D-Orbit will be enabling edge computing capabilities with the SkyServe STORM platform aboard some of the ION Satellite Carriers that comprise the fleet of Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTVs) that the company already has on-orbit (specifically, ION SCV004 Elysian Eleonora) and ...
Satellogic signs Letter of Intent with O.N.E. Amazon
Satellogic (NASDAQ: SATL) has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with O.N.E. Amazon to bring innovation to conservation — this announcement coincides with Earth Day, amplifying the importance of advancing geospatial sciences for planetary health and preservation. Satellogic will look to ...
MDA Space debuts their new SKYMAKER™ product line of space robotics
MDA Space has announced their MDA SKYMAKER™, a new suite of space robotics purpose-built to meet the diverse needs of customers’ most ambitious missions — unveiled recently at the Space Symposium conference in Colorado Springs, MDA SKYMAKER™ is now available ...
Septentrio mosaic™ GPS/GNSS now also available in MIKROE Click board™ ecosystem
mosaic-X5 compact GNSS* receiver module from Septentrio as been integrated into a new Click board™ by MIKROE, a provider of solutions for embedded systems development. The new board, called Mosaic Click, is compatible with the popular mikroBUS™ socket standard, enabling ...
Skyports raises million$$$+
Skyports has announced that ACS Group has made a substantial equity investment in the company, becoming the largest investor in the firm. ACS Group, which in 2023 generated revenue of $39 billion, has invested via its wholly owned infrastructure development/concessions ...
Rocket Lab updates ‘Beginning Of The Swarm’ mission for Korea’s KAIST and NASA’s ACS 3
This latest mission will see Rocket Lab perform multiple in-space engine burns to deploy two payloads to separate orbits several hundred kilometers apart. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has set the launch window for its next Electron launch. The ...
SpaceX may have weather issues on Monday’s Starlink Group 6-53 launch
Starlink satellites before deployment. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX's Falcon 9 is set to launch a batch of Starlink satellites into LEO from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, for the Starlink mega-constellation, on Monday, April 22 from 3:40 - 7:40 ...
Global space defense + security investment — major growth trend over the coming decade
NovaSpace, formerly Euroconsult, is forecasting that the worldwide launch rate for defense and dual-use satellites will increase by 160% over the coming decade. NovaSpace estimates that worldwide government expenditures in space defense and security reached more than $58 billion, a ...
KP Labs releases 1st hyperspectral images processed by AI on-board the Intuition-1 satellite
KP Labs announces the successful capture of the first hyperspectral images by the Intuition-1 satellite, which provides detailed observations of the equatorial region. This development and onboard data processing supported by AI highlights a significant advancement in Earth observation capabilities, ...