SpaceX has another ‘two fer two’ launches on two coasts same day including 13 Direct to Cell sats
SpaceX will be busy Wednesday May 8 with two launches same day from two coasts. The first launch, timewise, is from Florida's Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 11:00 a.m. with ...
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) + Perigee to launch satellites from Esrange
SSC and South Korean rocket company Perigee Aerospace Inc. have signed a collaborative agreement to launch satellites jointly from the Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden, starting in 2025 — Perigee’s Blue Whale 1 microlauncher will be the first orbital ...
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 ...
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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 ...
NASA tech grants to advance Moon to Mars space exploration
NASA has awarded nearly $1.5 million to academic, non-profit, and business organizations to advance state-of-the-art technology that will play a key role in the agency’s return to the Moon under Artemis, as well as future missions to Mars. Twenty-four projects ...
ATLAS Space Operations to support Blue Origin’s Blue Ring DarkSky-1 mission
Blue Origin has selected ATLAS Space Operations to provide ground segment support for their upcoming Blue Ring mission, DarkSky-1. Announced in October of 2023, Blue Ring provides end-to-end services that span hosting, transportation, refueling, data relay, and logistics in MEO, ...
SpaceX’s second launch same day Starlink smallsat from Florida after Maxar’s WorldView from California
Photo captured by Satnews from SpaceX video stream. SpaceX's Falcon 9 successfully launched 23 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This is the 19th flight for the ...
Millennium Space Systems selects L3Harris to build the SDA’s electro-optical infrared payloads
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has received a contract from Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, to build eight infrared payloads for the SDA’s Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) program. The FOO Fighter satellite system will test new technologies that could aid ...
ULA’s day L-4 update as first crewed Boeing Starliner ready to carry astronauts to ISS
An Atlas V N22 rocket will launch Boeing's Starliner on CFT. Photo by United Launch Alliance 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 ...
BAE Systems to build atmospheric composition instrument for NOAA’s GeoXO constellation
ACX is the second instrument BAE Systems has been contracted to develop for theGeoXO mission to support environmental monitoring BAE Systems has been selected by NASA to develop the Atmospheric Composition instrument (ACX) that will fly on NOAA's Geostationary Extended ...