Rocket Lab + Synspective sign another 10-launch contract
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) has secured a second, multi-launch contract with Synspective, a leading Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data and analytics company. The new contract for a further 10 dedicated Electron launches brings the total number of upcoming ...
ESA and Avio sign contract for a reuseable upper stage demonstration mission
The contract was signed by the European Space Agency’s Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen and Avio’s Chief Commercial Officer and Launch Services Director Marino Fragnito, at the International Aeronautical Congress in Sydney, Australia. The European Space Agency and Avio ...
United Launch Alliance launches Amazon’s Project Kuiper 3 mission sending 27 operational broadband satellites connecting the world
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper 3 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 on September 25, at 8:09 a.m. EDT, delivering the future of global connectivity for Amazon. Photo by United Launch Alliance A ...
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SpaceX is GO! for Friday launch of 28 Starlink smallsats Group 11-39 from Vandenberg
“We are what we call Nunataligaarjuk, close to the little islands out in the sea ice. Starlink has changed our lives out on the land. I have seen and heard of people being stuck out on the land, and they ...
AST SpaceMobile announces BlueBird 6 ready to ship
A release from AST SpaceMobile shared that BlueBird 6 has completed final assembly and testing and is ready for flight. On October 12, BlueBird 7 will head to India aboard an Antonov large cargo plane. As a result AST SpaceMobile ...
USSF declares L3Harris’ ATLAS mission ready
The U.S. Space Force has declared operational acceptance of the Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System (ATLAS) designed and built by L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX). ATLAS successfully integrates space domain awareness, space command and control (C2), intelligence, operational and system ...
SpaceX plans for Sunday launch of 28 Starlink smallsats Group 10-59 from Florida, weather permitting
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 28 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit that will join the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. A live webcast of this mission ...
Eutelsat and Tusass expand strategic partnership to bring resilient OneWeb LEO connectivity to Greenland
Photo: Mads Pihl - Visit Greenland Tusass, Greenland’s national provider of telecommunications services, has signed a strategic multi-year agreement to bring Eutelsat’s OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) connectivity to Greenland. The expanded partnership will enable the delivery of secure and ...
Rocket Lab HASTE’s suborbital flight of JUSTIN mission launched on Tuesday from Wallops
Rocket Lab successfully launched its HASTE launch vehicle from Launch Complex 2 on Wallops Island, Virginia, on Tuesday, September 30th, for an undisclosed customer. The mission was Rocket Lab's 4th HASTE launch overall. Photo captured by Satnews. A suborbital variant ...
Axiom Space + Resonac sign MoU to advance space-based semiconductor manufacturing
Axiom Space and Resonac Corporation (“Resonac”) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the research, development and manufacturing of high-performance semiconductor materials in the environment of space. This collaboration paves the way toward leveraging microgravity to advance ...
Boeing built ViaSat-3 arrives at Cape Canaveral for upcoming launch
Photo of the ViaSat-3 F2 satellite being loaded into the Antonov aircraft for transportation to Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Photo is courtesy of Viasat. Viasat’s ultra-high-capacity ViaSat-3 Flight 2 (VS-3 F2) satellite, built by Boeing, has completed its cross-country flight ...
Orbital Sidekick becomes a “Qualified Team” in the XPRIZE Wildfire competition
Destructive wildfires are on the rise across the globe. Accurate and timely detection of incipient wildfires from space has the potential to dramatically reduce their severity. Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has announced their participation in the XPRIZE Wildfire competition. OSK was ...
Ascent AeroSystems unveils SPARTAN™ UAV platform
Optimized for Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) operations, SPARTAN is the new flagship of Ascent's lineup of high-performance coaxial platforms Ascent AeroSystems has unveiled SPARTAN, the next generation of the firm's proven NX30 coaxial UAV platform. Purpose-built for defense, ...
