UPDATE: USSF-51 is ULA’s 100th national security milestone launch
The USSF-51 payload is raised into position atop the Atlas V. Photo by United Launch Alliance The milestone 100th launch in service to U.S. national security by United Launch Alliance (ULA) is in the final stages of preparations for ascent ...
Rocket Lab’s date set for Synspective satellites launch
File photo of a Rocket Lab Electron launch. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the launch window for the company's 51st Electron launch, a mission that will launch the latest satellite in a constellation that is being built ...
Another BOEING UPDATE: Starliner thruster ground testing complete, data reviews underway
The following is another update from Boeing revealing procedures and practices that will enable Boeing's Starliner to return NASA's astronauts back home — finally...Ground testing of a Starliner Reaction Control System (RCS) thruster at White Sands Test Facility in New ...
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UPDATE SpaceX reports corrections now made smallsat Starlink launches scheduled for July 27 and 28
Dates and launches are still in flux but it does appear that there will may be two launches in successive days, Saturday and Sunday, for SpaceX the first taking place at Cape Kennedy in Florida, and the Sunday launch from ...
Nokia expands FWA portfolio with new 5G devices
Nokia is adding a new 5G Fixed Wireless Access outdoor receiver and indoor gateway with Wi-Fi 7 to its growing portfolio of FWA broadband access products. Designed to meet the unique demands of the North American region, the new solutions ...
Terran Orbital’s new vehicle assembly facility receives Certificate of Occupancy
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has received the certificate of occupancy for the firm's previously announced, new assembly facility, located in Irvine, California. The facility spans 94,000 square feet and is situated on a five-acre site. Upon final interior completion ...
AST SpaceMobile completes first five commercial satellites now ready to ship in August
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), building space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard smartphones, designed for both commercial and government applications, successfully completed its first five Bluebirds commercial satellites. Each satellite has communications arrays measuring 693 square feet and ...
Star Catcher closes million$$ seed round
Star Catcher Industries, Inc. has closed a $12.25 million seed round — Initialized Capital and B Capital co-led the round, with meaningful participation from Rogue VC. With this funding, the Company is positioned to help eliminate power constraints on space ...
Sierra Space heralds the firm’s leap in microgravity research + manufacturing
Sierra Space has announced that the company's expandable space station technology successfully passed a seventh key validation test, and second full-scale structural test at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama — these results herald a giant leap toward ...
Blue Origin announces the crew for New Shepard’s 26th Mission
Blue Origin has named the six-person crew flying on its NS-26 mission — the crew includes: Nicolina Elrick, Rob Ferl, Eugene Grin, Dr. Eiman Jahangir, Karsen Kitchen, and Ephraim Rabin. Karsen will become the youngest woman ever to cross the ...
Avio partners with Raytheon (RTX) to build solid rocket motors
Avio has signed a contract with Raytheon (NYSE: RTX) to initiate and progress the development of critical solid rocket motors for defense applications — this contract contract furthers the systems engineering work required to mature these solid rocket motors into a ...
Forrester’s Digest: Terran Orbital raising $98M in share sale
Boca Raton-based satellite builder Terran Orbital is looking to issue additional shares in the company worth a maximum total of $98 million (€90.3m). Terran is limited as to what it can raise by issuing new shares. Terran Orbital has Lockheed ...
BAE Systems + Stellar Blu Solutions complete multi-orbit antenna qualification for IFC
BAE Systems’ strategic partner — Stellar Blu Solutions — has completed qualification and earned supplemental type certification on the multi-orbit Sidewinder aero terminal using BAE Systems’ Ku-band electronically scanned antenna (ESA). The milestone enables the companies to begin mass production ...