UPDATE 4: Rocket Lab looking good with their CAPSTONE launch + NASA reveals more about the agency’s mission to the moon
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE cubesat from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Pad B, located on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula on June 28th via an Electron rocket. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) cubesat will ...
Virgin Orbit’s launch window for the USSF’s STP-S28A + DoD payloads to ‘go’ on June 29th
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB)’s launch system is in place at the Mojave Air and Space Port. The dress rehearsals are complete and the company remains on track for their upcoming Straight Up mission, with a launch window opening on June ...
ULA Atlas V launch vehicle to lift the USSF-12 mission to orbit for Space Systems Command on June 30th from Cape Canaveral SFS
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 541 rocket with four, side-mounted boosters will launch the United States Space Force (USSF)-12 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC). Liftoff is scheduled to occur from Space Launch Complex-41 ...
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AAC Clyde Space garners million€ avionics contract from Space IL
AAC Clyde Space has won a 0.56 million euros contract for the company's Sirius avionics for SpaceIL's moon mission, Beresheet 2, with the AAC Clyde Space avionics to be delivered during Q1 of 2024. SpaceIL's previous mission, Beresheet 1, was ...
QuadSAT will benefit from ESA’s ARTES Core Competitiveness Program
QuadSAT has been awarded an additional 500,000 euros by ESA under ARTES Core Competitiveness program to enter into the product phase development project, thus continuing the successfully concluded technology phase. Within the contracted activity, QuadSAT will further develop, validate and ...
Business Moves, Comms, Data Acquisition, Data Network, Data Services, Earth Observation (EO), Ground Stations, MEO, Optical, Partnerships
WARPSPACE partnering with Leaf Space to support in-space optical comms
WARPSPACE has partnered with Leaf Space to provide ground station support to enable faster, more reliable data reception in support of the WARPSPACE optical communication network. The satellite must be in contact with the ground station when it receives a ...
Thales Alenia Space + Telespazio sign follow-on contract with Italian Ministry of Defense to develop the SICRAL 3 SATCOM system
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo 33%), and Telespazio, the joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%), have signed a follow-on contract with the Italian Ministry of Defense1, for the SICRAL 3 (artistic rendition ...
Satellite Vu selects Orbit Logic planning software for thermal imaging constellation
Satellite Vu has selected Orbit Logic’s collection planning software for the operation of their planned constellation of high resolution thermal imaging satellites. Orbit Logic will deliver software and engineering services, including software configuration, training and custom model development, starting in ...
Business Moves, Funding, In-Space Transportation, On-Orbit Servicing, Payload Delivery, Space Debris, Venture Capital
Impulse Space secures million$$ that accelerates the firm’s path toward ‘access any-orbit’ missions
Impulse Space, Inc. has secured $10 million in funding by Lux Capital, a VC firm focused on emerging science and technology ventures. Following the recently raised $20 million seed round funding led by Founders Fund, this sets Impulse on an ...
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BlueHalo awarded million$$ AFRL contract for Optical Laser Communications Flight Terminals + Ground Station
BlueHalo has been awarded a contract to deliver a pair of optical laser communications proto-flight terminals and a ground station to demonstrate on-orbit processing of satellite positioning and timing for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Kirtland Air Force ...
Goonhilly’s 60th anniversary celebration opens their doors after being closed to public for 10 years
Part of the entertainment includes the Pink Floyd Experience, playing Dark Side of The Moon – considered the UK’s best and known for recreating the sights and sounds of the legendary Pink Floyd band. Tickets are now available for a ...
Australian educational space program takes off
The Andy Thomas Space Foundation is launching its primary and high school programs to introduce space science and technology into the classroom, with the intention of taking the innovative courses national. The Space Discovery Centre at Lot Fourteen in downtown ...
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All electric SES-17’s services are fully operational over the Americas
The all-electric propulsion satellite has reached orbit per schedule after months of in-orbit raising and successful in-orbit testing. SES' newest geostationary Ka-band satellite, SES-17, is now fully operational over the Americas, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean at 67.1 degrees ...
