Firefly Alpha’s stage separation anomaly sends Lockheed Martin’s satellite into South Pacific near Antarctic
Firefly Alpha rocket experienced a launch anomaly that left a Lockheed Martin satellite in a significantly “lower than planned orbit”, and the "stage and its payload reentered over the South Pacific near Antarctica," the aerospace company said on Tuesday, April ...
ESA launches Biomass satellite to provide ‘unprecedented insights into forests and Earth’s carbon cycle’
Biomass on its way to orbit. ESA’s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s ...
United Launch Alliance successfully launches Amazon’s first operational satellites
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. (April 28, 2025) A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper-1 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 7:01 p.m. EDT, marking the first of many full-scale launches in service ...
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Ground Control’s RockBLOCK Pro debuts as the world’s first certified Iridium Certus 9704 device
Ground Control has become the first Iridium partner to bring a certified Iridium Certus 9704 device to market: the ruggedized RockBLOCK Pro satellite IoT gateway. Powered by the new Iridium Certus® 9704 module and Iridium Messaging Transport (IMT), the RockBLOCK ...
GA-ASI delivers MQ-9A Block 5 extended range UAS to the USMC
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) delivered an MQ-9A Reaper® Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC)—this new MQ-9A Block 5 Extended Range (ER) UAS was delivered on April 22, 2025, and will be operated by Marine ...
SpaceX launches Starlink Group 12-10 from the Cape making it the second launch on Monday
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched 23 smallsats from Starlink Group 12-10 into low Earth orbit to add to the smallsat constellation, from Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 PM, PDT. This was the second Starlink launch on Monday. The John F. Kennedy ...
SpaceX Starlink Group 11-9 smallsats is 1 of 2 launches on Monday from both coasts
On Monday, April 28 at 1:42 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The rocket's nine Merlin engines transported 27 Starlink satellites ...
Moon RACER activates self-driving mode for lunar exploration
On a rugged, mock moonscape, the Moon RACER team (Intuitive Machines | Atlas Devices | AVL | Barrios | Boeing | CSIRO | FUGRO | Michelin | Northrop Grumman | Roush | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Michigan Technological University) demonstrated ...
API Gateway to boost USSF space superiority through enhanced data access
U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded a $2.9 million contract to Raft LLC for the development of an Application Programming Interface (API) Gateway through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA). The API Gateway ...
Forrester’s Digest: Starlink ups UK fees in congested areas
UK consumers are facing a surcharge of almost £200 (€235) over and above the initial signing on fee because of Starlink network congestion in some parts of the country, according to a report from Fibre Compare, Geoff Pestell, CEO at ...
DISA enhances spectrum operations with new release
The Defense Information Systems Agency and U.S. Strategic Command recently launched a new software tool called Electromagnetic Battle Management - Joint Decision Support (EMBM-J DS) to improve the management of the electromagnetic spectrum for warfighting communications and operations. EMBM-J DS ...
BAE Systems selected to enhance ground system for U.S. Space Force missile warning satellites
BAE Systems has been selected by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to provide a new satellite command and control (C2) system for its Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program. Infographic courtesy of Space Systems Command. FORGE C2 will ...
A new chapter for Ariane 6 + Vega launchers with the P160C rocket motor
The P160C qualification motor was successfully tested on April 24th at the European Spaceport in French Guiana, on the solid-propellant booster test stand (BEAP) operated by the French Space Agency (CNES). The successful test firing of the first P160C motor ...
