Almagest Space successful launch + deployment of their ELEVATION-1 E-Band satellite
Almagest Space Corporation has announced the successful launch and deployment of ELEVATION-1, a demonstration satellite carrying the world’s first E-band communications payload with the foundational technology for Almagest to develop innovative, high performance, bulk data solutions. ELEVATION-1 was launched, with ...
Pixxel has launched Firefly hyperspectral satellite
Pixxel has successfully launched the first three satellites of its Firefly constellation. The satellites were integrated via Exolaunch and launched aboard the Transporter-12 rideshare mission via SpaceX from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Pixxel's smallsats, image courtesy of the company. This ...
SpaceX’s bittersweet seventh flight test, the loss of Starship but successful catch of booster
All began smoothly as SpaceX's Starship tore through the skies from Boca Chica, Texas with 33 out of 33 engines working to send it on it's seventh flight test. All photos provided by Satnews. As the journey continued ground control ...
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Sidus Space’s LizzieSat™ arrives at California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base ready for launch
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), an agile space mission enabler, announces's LizzieSat™-3' arrival at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to begin spacecraft integration in preparation for its scheduled launch and deployment into low Earth orbit no earlier than the first ...
Rocket Lab signs multi-launch contract with iQPS for four Electron missions
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has signed a multi-launch deal with Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), a Japan-based, Earth imaging company. Screen shot of the iQPS SAR tasking system. The multi-launch contract, signed in July of ...
PointCast debuts a self-pointing, future-ready VSAT system
PointCast has introduced an advanced, autonomous, and cost-effective satellite solution designed to transform the broadband delivery landscape. A sub-brand of the Kacific Group, PointCast is a game-changing motorized VSAT system that combines automation, affordability, and reliability to meet the needs of companies seeking to ...
SpaceX sends Maxar 3’s mission Worldview Legion 5 & 6 soaring through Florida fog
On Tuesday, February 4 at 6:13 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched the Maxar 3 mission to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "The launch of these two satellites will complete the first block of ...
Iridium’s Desch: We also believe in D2D
By Chris Forrester Dara Panahy, Partner, Millbank LLP, interviewed Matt Desch, CEO at Iridium at the SmallSat Symposium, held at Mountain View, on February 4. Desch admitted – with a smile on his face – that he is very old ...
Blue Origin earns another ‘feather in their cap’ with success of NS-29 mission launch
Blue Origin successfully completed its 29th New Shepard flight and 14th payload mission today from Launch Site One in West Texas. The payloads experienced roughly two minutes of lunar gravity forces. The New Shepard crew capsule used its reaction control ...
Rocket Lab’s Tuesday launch of IOT 4 You and Me is scrubbed with concerns of collision with ISS and others
Rocket Lab's Tuesday launch is also scrubbed with an explaination indicating that: Rocket Lab has delayed the launch of the IOT 4 You and Me mission in order to ensure the mission does not interfere with "space traffic from other ...
Optical Communication demand is growing, just like data
By Chris Forrester Moderator: Noel Rimalovski, MD at GH Partners, brought together a specialised panel at the SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View on February 4 to discuss optical communications. Each and every panelist expressed confidence in the prospects for laser-based ...
Sir Peter Beck, Founder and CEO, Rocket Lab “This is the best time in history to be bold”
By Chris Forrester Rocket Lab is increasingly making very real headlines for its end-to-end solutions – not dissimilar to Elon Musk in terms of practical and reliable rockets – and his Rocket Lab’s two-stage Electron vehicle. Founder Sir Peter Beck, ...
SpaceX Starlink Group 12-3 smallsats launch success including 13 Direct to Cell
With a launch that was definately fogged in, on Tuesday, February 4 at 5:15 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape ...
