Rocket Lab launches BlackSky Gen-3 beating the annual launch record with 2 launches in 2 days from 2 hemispheres
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) a global provider in launch services and space systems, today completed its second launch in two days from its launch sites in two hemispheres, setting a new annual launch record for the Company: 18 Electron ...
Isar Aerospace signs launch agreement with SEOPS for dedicated mission
Isar Aerospace has signed a launch service agreement with SEOPS for a dedicated mission scheduled in 2028. Isar Aerospace’s launch vehicle ‘Spectrum’ will deploy multiple payloads into LEO from its dedicated launch complex at Andøya Space in Norway. This launch ...
Spire Global ships 9 satellites to launch site
Included in the satellites is Spire’s next-generation Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder—a compact, space-ready sensor built to demonstrate global weather forecasting from space Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has now shipped nine satellites, all designed and built by the company’s in-house manufacturing ...
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Starlink’s early Sunday smallsat Group 11-30 launch from California
It was dark for this midnight launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to launch 28 Starlink smallsats on Sunday, November 23 at 12:48 a.m. PT, Falcon 9. The smallsats were launched to low-Earth orbit to join the evergrowing Starlink constellation from ...
Thales Alenia Space signs multiple contracts for ESA’s Argonaut Lunar Descent Element
Thales Alenia Space has signed multiple contracts shaping the core industrial team that will build the European Space Agency (ESA) Argonaut Lunar Descent Element. ESA’s Argonaut Mission, planned for launch from the 2030s, will deliver cargo, infrastructure and scientific instruments ...
Firefly Aerospace joins Kratos MACH-TB 2.0 team for hypersonic testing
Firefly is partnering with Kratos Defense and Security Solutions as a member of the MACH-TB 2.0 team—an expanding national coalition driving the next era of American hypersonics—as a partner, Firefly will be helping to advance Kratos’ goal of one hypersonic ...
Rohde & Schwarz + SRC deliver EW signal generation system to a major U.S. DoW research lab
Rohde & Schwarz and SRC, Inc. has completed the first delivery of the RSGEN™, an electronic warfare (EW) environmental signal generation system, to a major DoW test facility. The RSGEN system is compatible with the military’s Next Generation Electronic Warfare ...
A first for Europe as Infinite Orbits and SES will provide geostationary satellite life extension mission
Endurance™ is a 750kg life-extension vehicle for geostationary satellites. Arrangements for a commercial mission have been signed by Infinite Orbits and SES. Together their contract will provide a first for Europe with a geostationary satellite life extension mission. Following an in-orbit ...
ESA appoints Amphinicy Technologies as ONEST’s prime contractor to create a modular optical ground station network testbed
Amphinicy Technologies has been appointed by the European Space Agency (ESA) as the prime contractor for the ONEST (Optical Ground Station Network Scheduling Testbed), a project under ESA’s ScyLight programdedicated to optical and quantum communications. The initiative aims to strengthen ...
Space-backed pilot program to ID how 24/7 connectivity can improve social care in the UK
Excelerate Technology has won research funding made available through a partnership between Space Wales, the UK Space Agency and the Welsh Government to map how frontline social care staff can remain connected to the internet at all times — in ...
ESA’s Smile approved for launch in the spring of 2026
The European Space Agency's Smile mission has passed its qualification and flight acceptance review, meaning that it meets all requirements for launch. The launch window has been set for April 8th to May 7th in 2026. The Smile mission team ...
Falcon 9 launches Starlink smallsats Group 6-78 on Thursday from the Cape
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 29 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photos captured by Satnews. This will be the 23rd flight for the first ...
Dcubed’s next venture ARAQYS – the power solution for space
Dcubed GmbH, provider of release actuators, deployable space structures and In-Space Manufacturing (ISM) technologies, announces its expansion into space-based energy systems with the introduction of ARAQYS — the power solution for space. With ARAQYS, Dcubed is positioning itself as the ...
