Rocket Lab’s ‘Beginning Of The Swarm’ mission launch window is open and ready for business
All is ready for the window of opportunity to occur during a 14-day launch window that opens on April 24th in order to launch Rocket Lab's Beginning of the Swarm mission for South Korea and NASA. Rocket Lab Launch Complex ...
SpaceX’s successful Wednesday Starlink satellite launch but No-Go for Maxar’s WorldView mission
Photo by Satnews captured from SpaceX video stream On Wednesday, April 17 at 5:26 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A beautiful Florida ...
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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Verus® Research’s $1 Million contract monitors anomalies for Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory
Verus® Research, a New Mexico-based team of scientists and engineers with expertise in advanced research and development, announces the award of a two-year, $1 million contract from the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The contract ...
SpaceX chalks up another smooth Starlink smallsat launch
It's a go again for SpaceX's 41st launch of the year and the 9th launch of the month. Weather was excellent for SpaceX's 180th launch from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station making this the 305th Falcon ...
USSF extends partnership with L3Harris to enhance space domain awareness
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has received an award of option year five of the Maintenance Of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program — this contract, worth up to $187 million from the U.S. Space Force (USSF), continues the modernization and ...
SpaceX Thursday launch ready to go
SpaceX is targeting Thursday, April 18 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 6:40 p.m. ET, with ...
Apogeo Space announces agreement with INNOSPACE to manage multi-unit launches
Apogeo Space has announced the agreement with INNOSPACE to acquire multi-unit launches, starting in the second half of 2025. The agreement consists of the management, over the period 2025-2027, of three LEO launches and releases of Apogeo Space's picosatellites that will ...
SSC’s SBIRS Baseline Release control authority transferred to Space Operations Command
The United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command, through its Space Sensing Product Support Delta (SNP), has successfully completed the trial period of the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Baseline Release (SBR 23-1). Artistic rendition of SBIRS is courtesy of Lockheed ...
Kacific + Microsoft partner to reach 10 million people in APAC with internet access initiative
Kacific Broadband Satellites Group and Microsoft recently announced their collaboration to bring high-speed satellite internet access to 750 rural educational and healthcare institutions with a geographical coverage of 10 million across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region over the next two ...
Evolve Dynamics,+ Doodle Labs partner for anti-jamming resilience in the new SKY MANTIS 2 UAV
Evolve Dynamics and mesh networking technology provider, Doodle Labs, have announced a continuation of their partnership and the integration of Doodle Labs’ Helix Mesh Rider Radios as the on-board datalink in the new generation of the Evolve Dynamics’ flagship platform, ...
Kratos executed fully virtualized SATCOM ground system for U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command over SES’s O3b MEO constellation
Together the companies showcase technology capable of supporting multi-orbit, multi-mission satellite ground operations Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a technology company in the defense, national security and global markets, and SES, a provider in global content connectivity solutions, successfully ...
Space Leasing International enters into a new lease agreement with RBC Signals
Space Leasing International (SLI), the aerospace subsidiary of the Libra Group, has signed a new lease agreement with RBC Signals — this agreement includes SLI’s purchase of a ground station in Piteå, Sweden, which will be leased to RBC Signals ...