Rocket Lab’s next Electron Launch will be the 6th mission for iQPS
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the launch window for its next mission for multi-launch customer, Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), a Japan-based Earth imaging company—this mission will be Electron’s 74th launch to date and 16th ...
INNOSPACE obtains launch authorization for 1st commercial launch mission ‘SPACEWARD’
INNOSPACE (KS:462350), a South Korean satellite launch service company, announced that it has become the first private company to obtain a commercial launch authorization from the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA)—with this authorization, INNOSPACE has completed all approval procedures for the maiden ...
Rocket Lab launches Synspective’s “Owl New World” mission with improved SAR capabilities
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today successfully launched its 15th mission of the year and the first of 21 new launches for Synspective and 73rd launch overall. Photos captured by Satnews ...
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Viasat demos 1st satellite SMS messages on Android smartphone in Mexico
Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has completed an in-country, first-of-its-kind, direct-to-device (D2D) demonstration in Mexico, featuring native SMS messages on the Android smartphone. The demonstration showcased smartphones sending and receiving messages over Viasat’s I-4 F3 satellite using 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) ...
ST Engineering iDirect’s Intuition Ground System now available
ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, has announced the general availability of Intuition 1.1, its next-generation ground system. Built on cloud-native, multi-orbit architecture, this release introduces advanced capabilities designed to unify satellite operations, enhance adaptability and maximize ...
NASA awards Solstar Space an SBIR contract to develop lunar Wi-Fi system
Solstar Space (Solstar) has been awarded a NASA Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract valued at $150,000 to develop a next-generation Lunar Wi-Fi Access Point (LWIFI-AP) to support the agency’s Artemis program and Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) ...
Iridium awarded U.S. DoT contract for complementary PNT services deployment + testing
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) for an award through its Complementary Positioning,Navigation, and Timing (CPNT) Action Plan Rapid Phase Award II to support a broad network deployment of Iridium® PNT ...
SpaceX plans 2 Wednesday launches: Starlink smallsat Group 11-5 + SpainSat NGII from both coasts
Group 11-5 with 28 Starlink smallsats to launch from California SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 28 Starlink smallsats Group 11-5 to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg ...
Planet awarded Luno B contract by NGA for AI-enabled solutions
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has been awarded a contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under the Luno B indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. The $12.8 million initial award is for Advanced Analytics for Maritime Operations and Reconnaissance ...
Arianespace delays launch of Ariane 64
Arianespace will be delaying the launch of the Ariane 64, and declined to give a projected launch date but will announce the date about one month ahead of the launch. Arianespace reports that the first Ariane 64 will carry a ...
EU wants UK participation in IRIS2
Laurent Jaffart, Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications at the European Space Agency (ESA), has spoken encouragingly about the UK participating in the EU’s IRIS2 super-constellation being assembled by the SpaceRISE consortium. Jaffart was questioned on the possibility of the ...
ULA’s Atlas V ready to launch VIASAT-3 Flight 2 enhancing global connectivity
ULA's Atlas V will soon be launching the ViaSat-3 Flight 2 ultra-high-capacity broadband spacecraft that is the second of three ultra-high-capacity satellites for Viasat, a global technology company. Designed to significantly increase their global internet bandwidth capacity ViaSat is helping ...
